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Drifting: Film Screening and Q&A with director Jun Li

Thursday, October 15, 2026 5:00pm to 7:30pm
Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building

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

Friday, October 16, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Health Sciences Academic Building (HSAB)

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...

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CSD Graduate Program Open House

Friday, October 16, 2026 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Health Sciences Academic Building

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.

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Arrows in Motion: Animation and Public Health in Socialist China

Friday, October 16, 2026 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building
Through the lens of Chinese health films, Li explores how animation does more than communicate knowledge, helping to shape how people perceive relationships between bodies, environments, and collective life.
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Susan Metrican, Visiting Artist in Painting and Drawing

Friday, October 16, 2026 6:00pm
Visual Arts Building

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

Friday, October 16, 2026 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Virtual
Data Science Bootcamp
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Solar Wind Characteristics During Low Density Periods: A Window into Young Solar Wind

Friday, October 16, 2026 7:30pm to 8:00pm
Van Allen Hall

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...

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Biology Graduate Student Seminars on Monday, October 19: Haley Reeves (Erives Lab), Sasini Angunawala (Tootle Lab) and Brady Williquett (Manak Lab)

Monday, October 19, 2026 3:30pm
Biology Building East
Biology Graduate Student Seminars on Monday, October 19 at 3:30pm in Room 101, Biology Building East: Haley Reeves (Erives Lab), Sasini Angunawala (Tootle Lab) and Brady Williquett (Manak Lab)
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Playwrights Workshop Reading: Luggage Baby

Monday, October 19, 2026 5:30pm
Theatre Building

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!

Tuesday, October 20, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Sciences Library
Bring your academic interests to the table and engage with fellow graduate and professional students in a casual, supportive environment.

BMB Research Workshop

Tuesday, October 20, 2026 12:30pm to 1:20pm
Medical Education Research Facility

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

Tuesday, October 20, 2026 1:30pm to 2:20pm
MacLean Hall

Topics: Number theory by machine learning

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Stanley Award for International Research - Information Session

Tuesday, October 20, 2026 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Virtual
The Stanley Award for International Research gives UI students up to $2,500 to design and carry out international research or fieldwork projects.

Seminar Series: Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Tuesday, October 20, 2026 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Bowen Science Building

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

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Super-Powered Storytelling: On Writing Comics

Tuesday, October 20, 2026 3:30pm
Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building
Join Cinematic Arts and comic book writer Ben Percy to learn more about how crafting a comic book parallels storyboarding a film! Listen in as he discusses the practice and craft of comic book storytelling and how to direct a small "set" of collaborators.
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Biology Career Seminar: Iowa Biology to MBA and the business of biotech

Tuesday, October 20, 2026 4:00pm
Virtual
Biology Career Seminar: Iowa Biology to MBA and the business of biotech
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Japanese Conversation Table Fall '26

Tuesday, October 20, 2026 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Phillips Hall
Join the UI Japanese Program on Tuesdays to practice your Japanese language skills with fellow learners!
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Giorgos Kontis, Grant Wood Fellow in Painting and Drawing, 2026-2027

Tuesday, October 20, 2026 5:30pm
Visual Arts Building

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...

Data Science Bootcamp featuring Dr. Kate Ralston

Tuesday, October 20, 2026 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Schaeffer Hall
Data Science Bootcamp
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