Upcoming Events

Fall 2025 IRB Office Hours

Thursday, October 2, 2025 10:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual
HSO Staff will be available to:Answer questions about conducting human subjects research.Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system.Provide suggestions and guidance about study procedures that are in compliance with federal regulations and the UI IRB policies.Provide guidance and answer questions about the submission of industry-initiated and industry-sponsored research projects to an external/commercial or central IRB

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Judith Simcox

Thursday, October 2, 2025 10:30am to 11:20am
Medical Education Research Facility
This event is open to the public."TBD"Judith Simcox, PhDHHMI Freeman Hrabowski ScholarUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonFaculty Host: Brandon Davies, PhD (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology/FOEDRC)Simcox Lab | https://biochem.wisc.edu/people/simcox/
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Mail Art Pop-Up

Thursday, October 2, 2025 11:00am to 1:00pm
University of Iowa Main Library
Learn more about this creative initiative and express yourself by making and sending small-scale works of art through the Postal Service. We’ll send it off in the mail for you—just bring an address of someone with you! We’ll also have examples from our world-class collection of Mail Art on display to inspire you.Special Collections and Archives will have envelopes, postcards, stickers and more for you to make your own small artwork and add to the Mail Art movement.This event will be in Group...

SEES 7000: Leon Aden (School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability)

Thursday, October 2, 2025 3:30pm
Visual Arts Building
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Weather, Fiction and Lies

Thursday, October 2, 2025 3:30pm to 4:30pm
English-Philosophy Building
Stephanie LeMenager, one of the founders of the environmental humanities and pioneer in the critical theory of petromodernity, examines the unique role of fiction as a form of truth telling in an era of lies, propaganda and conspiracy theory, and in the shadow of climate crisis.Stephanie LeMenager is a Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor of English and Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon.This event is presented by the Ida Cornelia Beam Visiting Professor lecture...

Story Lab Workshop #3

Thursday, October 2, 2025 5:00pm to 8:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building
Kick off the semester with Story Lab—a hands-on workshop (offered four times, so you can pick what works for you) where you’ll learn how to craft and deliver stories that connect, inspire, and lead. Expect interactive activities, leadership insights, and yes… FREE food and drinks. Hurry! Slots fill up fast — RSVP for one of the four workshops.
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Johnson County Landmark

Thursday, October 2, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Johnson County LandmarkThis concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule.This concert is free and open to the public.
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Psychological and Brain Sciences Colloquium: Monica Fabiani

Friday, October 3, 2025 11:30am to 1:00pm
Psychological and Brain Sciences Building
The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences is excited to welcome Dr. Monica Fabiani for this colloquium event. Monica is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are in the cognitive neuroscience of human memory and aging, as well as in the development of tools for the non-invasive mapping of human brain function.Presentation title and abstract to come.Dr. Monica Fabiani's bio page: https://psychology.illinois.edu/directory/profile...
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Nancy Andreasen Lecture in Psychiatry presented by Sophia Vinogradov, MD

Friday, October 3, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Medical Education Research Facility
Sophia Vinogradov, MDProfessor and Department HeadDonald W. Hastings Endowed ChairDepartment of Psychiatry & Behavioral ScienceUniversity of Minnesota Medical SchoolLecture title to comeThe annual Andreasen lecture, established by the UI Department of Psychiatry in 2018, honors Nancy C. Andreasen, MD, PhD, UI professor of psychiatry, an internationally recognized neuroscientist and a leader in the field of schizophrenia research.
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War as a Genre of Climate Change

Friday, October 3, 2025 1:00pm to 2:00pm
English-Philosophy Building
Stephanie LeMenager, one of the founders of the environmental humanities and pioneer in the critical theory of petromodernity, explores how the climate crisis generates shorthand "genres" of expectation in response to uncertainty. She argues that one genre of climate crisis is war—in particular civil war.Stephanie LeMenager is a Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor of English and Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon.This event is presented by the Ida Cornelia Beam...