Speaker: Shaoping Xiao, Department of Mechanical Engineering

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...

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. In 2018, The New York...

5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 3: Memes

Professor Matthew Arndt emcees the third presentation in this series of intergalactic music poetics. Drawing together ancient wisdom and modern science, this poetics aims at transmuting one’s experience of everything as music and living joyfully even as we work confidently toward an abundant future.

Featuring selections from Quartet for the End of Time

Katie Wolfe, violin
Jorge Montilla Moreno, clarinet
Carey...

Each semester, we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers. Everyone is encouraged to attend.

Join the Pomerantz Career Center for a virtual information session on the Hawkeye Experience Grant.

The Hawkeye Experience Grant awards undergraduate students at the University of Iowa who are involved in applied learning experiences outside of the classroom. Students may apply for up to $4,000 to help defray the cost of a Summer 2026 experience, with living costs being prioritized first before any required tuition or fees.

Deadline for applications: First Friday in April (April 3, 2026)...

Join the 2025–2026 Grant Wood Fellows artists for an evening of discussion about their work and research. The event will be accompanied by light refreshments.

Panel members:

Ada Friedman (Painting & Drawing)

Elizabeth Claire Rose (Printmaking)

Kyle Marshall (Interdisciplinary Performance—Dance)

The Grant Wood Art Colony seeks to provide a creative home for the next generation of artists and continue Grant Wood’s creative advocacy in the School of Art & Art History and the Division of Performing Arts...

Book Ends supports University of Iowa faculty from disciplines in which publishing a monograph is required for tenure and promotion. The award is designed to assist faculty members in turning promising manuscripts into important, field-changing, published books. Read more about the program.

Interested applicants are invited to learn more about the program and application process at a virtual information session on Tuesday, February 3, at 8:30 a.m. Obermann Center Director Luis Martín-Estudillo...

The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics (PSET) in the College of Pharmacy will host a seminar presented by: 

Filiz Korkmaz, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Iowa

All are welcome to attend. No pre-registration required.

Each semester, we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers. Everyone is encouraged to attend.

"Grant Wood On the Radar in the ‘60s and 70s" by Elaine Mattingly

Mattingly will discuss her research into Grant Wood's resurgence during the 1960s and '70s, including the first Grant Wood Art Festival and a teaser for Stranded in Stone City, a new musical of which Mattingly is writer/producer/editor.

Elaine Mattingly’s connection to all things Grant Wood goes back six generations in the Anamosa, Stone City, Viola and Cedar Rapids areas of Iowa. She presses into service her experience as a...