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Drifting: Film Screening and Q&A with director Jun Li
Just out of jail, Fai finds a spot on a street corner where other homeless people welcome him. But he doesn't get much time to settle in. The police soon chase them away, and their possessions disappear into a garbage truck. Young social worker Ms. Ho thinks it's time to fight this in court. In the meantime, Fai and his friends have other concerns.
Film is free to everyone.
Jun Li is a Hong Kong writer and film director. He has made three feature films and written two full-length plays. His films...
CSD Professional Seminar Series
Title: Nothing About Us Without Us: Creating Patient-Reported Outcome Measures with People Who Stutter
Speaker: Naomi Rodgers, PhD, CCC-SLP
In honor of International Stuttering Awareness Day, this seminar takes up a core principle of the disability rights movement: research about a community should be shaped by that community. Patient-reported outcome measures shape how we define success in clinic and research, yet many measures fail to capture what matters most to the people they are meant to...
CSD Graduate Program Open House
Join us for an inside look at our nationally recognized Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology (MS-SLP) and Doctor of Audiology (AuD) programs. This open house is designed to help you experience our campus, meet faculty, and current graduate students, and learn more about the exciting opportunities in CSD at the University of Iowa.
Arrows in Motion: Animation and Public Health in Socialist China
Susan Metrican, Visiting Artist in Painting and Drawing
Susan Metrican is an artist living in Fairfield, Iowa, via Boston, NYC, Toronto, and Bangkok. She makes cross-disciplinary work rooted in painting. Metrican received an MFA from MassArt, and BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. She has attended residencies at Skowhegan, Shandaken: Storm King, and Interlude. In 2026, she received the Iowa Artist Fellowship. Metrican’s work has been included in solo and group exhibitions nationally, with a solo show at Specialist Gallery, Seattle, in November...
Data Science Bootcamp featuring Dr. Congrui Yi
Solar Wind Characteristics During Low Density Periods: A Window into Young Solar Wind
Please join us for the Astronomy Public Talk series, where we host short, accessible talks on a wide range of astronomy and physics-related topics — free and open to the public! This event will feature a presentation by UI Physics and Astronomy undergraduate student Sydney Tune, who will discuss how low-density periods in the solar wind can show what previous conditions were like near the Sun. By studying features known as counter-streaming strahl electrons and “double ions” during these rare...
Biology Graduate Student Seminars on Monday, October 19: Haley Reeves (Erives Lab), Sasini Angunawala (Tootle Lab) and Brady Williquett (Manak Lab)
Math Bio Seminar - Liz Brass; University of Iowa Department of Mathematics
Playwrights Workshop Reading: Luggage Baby
By Darrin Terpstra
You came to America on a plane. Your mother likes to say the plane was her womb, and the landing was your birth.
Please be advised this play contains content about grief, racism, and conservative Christianity.
Part of Theatre Arts' Reading Series
Tickets:
Tickets for readings are free of charge; seating is limited.
Graduate & Professional Students: Let's Do Lunch!
BMB Research Workshop
The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology holds research workshops featuring internal speakers on Tuesdays, 12:30-1:20pm. For Fall 2026, these will occur in 1117 MERF. Presentation titles are not publicly available due to the use of unpublished research. Individuals interested in attending workshops or being added to the email list should contact the office at biochem@uiowa.edu.
Aug. 25: CANCELED
Sept. 1: CANCELED
Sept. 8: RESERVED
Sept. 15: Steve Guzman, PhD, Postdoc Fellow, Biomedical...
Representation Theory Seminar - Luis Gomez, Kevin Wang, and Yangbo Ye; University of Iowa Department of Mathematics
Topics: Number theory by machine learning
Stanley Award for International Research - Information Session
Seminar Series: Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Each semester, we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers. Everyone is encouraged to attend. Visit website: https://microbiology.medicine.uiowa.edu/about-us/seminars
Super-Powered Storytelling: On Writing Comics
Biology Career Seminar: Iowa Biology to MBA and the business of biotech
Japanese Conversation Table Fall '26
Giorgos Kontis, Grant Wood Fellow in Painting and Drawing, 2026-2027
The work of Giorgos Kontis focuses on abstract painting, on its relationship to a sense of a minimum and to a language that is both latent and elliptical. The function of the painted image and the relationship it may build with the viewer become central in his practice. Giorgos studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts, at the Academy of Visual Arts (AdBK) in Munich and at the University of Arts (UdK) in Berlin. He holds an MFA from the St.Joost Academy in Breda, the Netherlands, and a PhD in...