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Curator Guided Tour of ‘Paper Engineering in Art, Science, and Education’

Thursday, December 4, 2025 4:00pm to 5:00pm
University of Iowa Main Library
Join co-curators Giselle Simón, Elizabeth Yale, and Damien Ihrig for a special guided tour of their exhibition.
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Art & Write Night

Friday, December 5, 2025 6:00pm to 8:00pm
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History

Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces.

Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists.

Tell a friend, grab a notebook, and join us on the first Friday of each month. We'll provide a new inspo prompt for each session and...

Key Change: Brahms and His Piano Legacy, Concert #3

Saturday, December 6, 2025 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Key Change: Brahms and His Piano Legacy, Concert #3

This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.

View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/952045

This concert is free and open to the public.

REDCap Basic Training

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as:

• Building forms with proper field types and validation
• Assigning user permissions
• Project backup and overview with data dictionary, codebook, pdf, and xml
• Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application
• Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production
• Creating...

TriNetX Basic Training

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Virtual

This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research.

After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies.

Register by clicking the virtual event link...

Des Moines MSW Info Session

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual
Join the Info Session to learn about the MSW program options and specializations available in Des Moines.

Iowa City MSW Info Session

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual

Please join us via Zoom for an info session to learn more about earning your MSW degree on our main University of Iowa campus in Iowa City.

https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/91760640877

Contact our Admissions Office directly with any questions or requests.

ssw-admissions@uiowa.edu

319-335-1250

REDCap Intermediate Training

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as:
• Outputting data automatically with calculated fields
• Collecting the same data points multiple times with longitudinal and one-to-many data collection
• Standardizing your data to industry standards with ontologies and the REDCap Instrument Library
• Ways to customize your data entry experience with action tags
• Viewing data with reports, dashboards, and charts
...

Departmental Brown Bag

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Psychological and Brain Sciences Building

Brown Bag events feature presentations by Psychological and Brain Sciences graduate students from the Cognitive and Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience training areas.

Presenter, title, and abstract to come.

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Book Matters: Jamel Brinkley in conversation with Stephen Lovely

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Prairie Lights Books

Join us for a special Book Matters celebrating acclaimed author Jamel Brinkley, recipient of a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2022–2023 Rome Prize in Literature.

Provost Kevin Kregel will recognize Brinkley for his external awards. Brinkley will read a selection from his work and then join Stephen Lovely, novelist and director of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio, for conversation and audience Q&A.

“Jamel Brinkley is one of the best story writers we have…Read everything this man writes, and know...

REDCap Surveys Training

Thursday, December 11, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the third step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover survey configuration and distribution such as:

Allowing potential participants to self-initiate participation in your study with public surveys Manually and automatically sending surveys Administering electronic consent (e-consent) forms Controlling survey access with conditional logic and survey login

This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training you will have a basic understanding of...

Online MSW Info Session

Thursday, December 11, 2025 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual

Please join us via Zoom for an info session to learn more about the online MSW program.

https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/91760640877

Questions? Contact Lauren at ssw-admissions@uiowa.edu

REDCap Advanced Training

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the fourth step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover advanced features such as:

Importing data from a CSV file Ways to customize your data entry experience with form display logic Making your forms more dynamic and personalized with context aware smart variables Sending automated, conditional email alerts Ensuring data is high quality by executing data quality rules, creating data 'missingness' codes, and opening data queries

Register by clicking the...

REDCap MyCap Training

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as:

Creating participants Creating tasks and schedules Active tasks and their unique data output Direct messages and announcements

This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of the MyCap mobile app for REDCap.

Register by clicking the virtual event link above or by going...

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, December 18, 2025 10:00am to 11:59pm
Virtual

This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training we won't use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as:

Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with vlookup()

Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering

Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables

Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables

Transforming unusable data to a usable format...

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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Commencement Ceremony

Sunday, December 21, 2025 1:00pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena

All College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and University College graduates will be recognized at the ceremony.

Tickets are not required. Doors will open one hour prior to the start of the ceremony.

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Enriching the Curriculum with Writing and AI Literacy

Thursday, January 8, 2026 10:00am to 12:00pm
University Capitol Centre
Stacey Sheriff, Chair of the Writing Department at Colby College, describes the key components of writing across the curriculum programs, pedagogies, and principles and what is changing (or not) in response to AI.
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Application Deadline: Spring 2026 Obermann Writing Collective

Friday, January 23, 2026 5:00pm
111 Church Street

This program offers accountability to artists, scholars, and researchers working on any kind of writing project (articles, essays, fellowship or grant applications, dissertations, book projects, edited volumes, etc.) who want dedicated time, a cozy space, and a community for the practice of writing.

In spring 2026, four writing groups will meet in our Writers' Attic at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at 111 Church St. Each group will meet once a week for 1.5 hours, beginning the week of...

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Art & Write Night

Friday, February 6, 2026 6:00pm to 8:00pm
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History

Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces.

Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists.

Tell a friend, grab a notebook, and join us on the first Friday of each month. We'll provide a new inspo prompt for each session and...

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Departmental Brown Bag: Stephanie Leach

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Psychological and Brain Sciences Building

Brown Bag events feature presentations by Psychological and Brain Sciences graduate students from the Cognitive and Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience training areas.

Stephanie Leach is a Graduate Student in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Stephanie is in the Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience training area and is a member of the Hwang Lab.

Title and abstract to come

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