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Iowa Summer Writing Festival: June Workshops

Sunday, June 15 to Tuesday, June 24, 2025 (all day)
Iowa Summer Writing Festival
The Iowa Summer Writing Festival is back on campus at the University of Iowa this June and July, offering 70 weekend and weeklong workshops led by 45 acclaimed instructors.Since 1987, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival has welcomed to The University of Iowa writers from 18 to 98 years of age, from all 50 states, and from every continent. Most come to the workshop table from other areas of expertise, other lives — including the armed forces, business, diplomacy, education, farming, homemaking...
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Iowa Summer Writing Festival: June Workshops

Monday, June 16 to Tuesday, June 24, 2025 (all day)
Iowa Summer Writing Festival
The Iowa Summer Writing Festival is back on campus at the University of Iowa this June and July, offering 70 weekend and weeklong workshops led by 45 acclaimed instructors.Since 1987, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival has welcomed to The University of Iowa writers from 18 to 98 years of age, from all 50 states, and from every continent. Most come to the workshop table from other areas of expertise, other lives — including the armed forces, business, diplomacy, education, farming, homemaking...
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Topics in Human Genetics

Monday, June 16, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building
The course is open to individuals wishing to learn more about current topics in Human Genetics who meet the following criteria; individuals must have completed a course in genetics and are currently in a genetics lab, or have past genetics research experience. Genetics educators are also welcome to attend the course.The objective of the course is to provide persons familiar with genetics a broad overview of gene identification, molecular genetics, complex disease, next generation sequencing...

Live from Prairie Lights | John Koethe and Julie Hanson

Monday, June 16, 2025 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Poet and philosopher John Koethe will read from his newest book, Cemeteries and Galaxies, a collection of poems that "unravels timeless questions of death, math, meaning, and much more" (macmillan.com), and Iowa Writers' Workshop alum Julie Hanson will read from her recent poetry collection, The Audible and the Evident, winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Heather Treseler of the LA Review of Books praises Cemeteries and Galaxies as a new collection that "looks upward at the most distant...
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Iowa Summer Writing Festival: June Workshops

Tuesday, June 17 to Tuesday, June 24, 2025 (all day)
Iowa Summer Writing Festival
The Iowa Summer Writing Festival is back on campus at the University of Iowa this June and July, offering 70 weekend and weeklong workshops led by 45 acclaimed instructors.Since 1987, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival has welcomed to The University of Iowa writers from 18 to 98 years of age, from all 50 states, and from every continent. Most come to the workshop table from other areas of expertise, other lives — including the armed forces, business, diplomacy, education, farming, homemaking...

REDCap Advanced Training

Tuesday, June 17, 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...

Live from Prairie Lights | Kelly Dwyer - 'Ghost Mother'

Tuesday, June 17, 2025 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Iowa Writers' Workshop alum and current Iowa Summer Writing Festival instructor Kelly Dwyer will read from her newest novel, Ghost Mother. Compared to stories written by Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, and Henry James, Ghost Mother follows a protagonist named Lilly who's wanting but struggling to have a baby with her husband Jack when they buy an old house that appears to be haunted...or is it? Kate Christensen, PEN/Faulkner award-winning author of The Great Man and Welcome Home, Stranger...
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Iowa Summer Writing Festival: June Workshops

Wednesday, June 18 to Tuesday, June 24, 2025 (all day)
Iowa Summer Writing Festival
The Iowa Summer Writing Festival is back on campus at the University of Iowa this June and July, offering 70 weekend and weeklong workshops led by 45 acclaimed instructors.Since 1987, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival has welcomed to The University of Iowa writers from 18 to 98 years of age, from all 50 states, and from every continent. Most come to the workshop table from other areas of expertise, other lives — including the armed forces, business, diplomacy, education, farming, homemaking...
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Dissertation Seminar: Break-induced Replication: Two Roles in Genome Instability

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 9:00am
Biology Building East
Kendra Musmaker, a PhD candidate in the Integrated Biology (iBio) Graduate Program, will be defending her dissertation on Wednesday, June 18, at 9:00am CDT in Room 106, Biology Building East (BBE), and via Zoom (see attached flyer for the Zoom link). Kendra’s mentor is Anna Malkova, former Roy J. Carver Professor of Biology at the University and Iowa and current Professor of Biochemistry and Structural Biology at UT Health San Antonio. The seminar is open to the public to attend.

REDCap MyCap Training

Wednesday, June 18, 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...
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Mieke Eerkens, "The Political Is the Personal: Using Creative Writing to Advocate for Social Issues"

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 11:00am to 12:00pm
Gilmore Hall
We are in one of the most politically tumultuous times in decades. People are struggling to make sense of the daily news. One of the best tools for education, issue engagement, and advocacy is creative writing. Making a generalized political issue a personal one by zooming in on individual experience using artful language and narrative moves social issues out of the intellectual realm into the emotional realm for a reader. Moving readers emotionally through artful writing can be much more...
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Iowa Summer Writing Festival: June Workshops

Thursday, June 19 to Tuesday, June 24, 2025 (all day)
Iowa Summer Writing Festival
The Iowa Summer Writing Festival is back on campus at the University of Iowa this June and July, offering 70 weekend and weeklong workshops led by 45 acclaimed instructors.Since 1987, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival has welcomed to The University of Iowa writers from 18 to 98 years of age, from all 50 states, and from every continent. Most come to the workshop table from other areas of expertise, other lives — including the armed forces, business, diplomacy, education, farming, homemaking...

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, June 19, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
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...
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Venise Berry, "Exploring Culture: Building Unique Characters Through the Physical, the Cognitive, and the Behavioral"

Thursday, June 19, 2025 11:00am to 12:00pm
Gilmore Hall
Creating cultural characters involves understanding and empathizing with different experiences. Mainstream society is based on certain ideas, perceptions, values, and beliefs that are accepted as the norm. These norms are the standards by which everything and everyone else is judged. Too often “different voices” become problematic stereotypes rather than rich, complex images and ideas. This lecture will specifically explore three elements that make up the uniqueness of culture: the physical...
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Dissertation Seminar: Break-Induced Replication as a DNA Double-Strand Break Repair Pathway: Mutagenic Consequences and Mechanistic Insights

Thursday, June 19, 2025 1:00pm
Biology Building East
Jerzy Twarowski, a PhD candidate in the Integrated Biology (iBio) Graduate Program, will be defending his dissertation on Thursday, June 19, at 1 p.m. CDT in Room 106, Biology Building East (BBE), and via Zoom (see attached flyer for the Zoom link). Jerzy’s mentor is Anna Malkova, former Roy J. Carver Professor of Biology at the University and Iowa and current Professor of Biochemistry and Structural Biology at UT Health San Antonio. The seminar is open to the public to attend.
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Iowa Summer Writing Festival: June Workshops

Friday, June 20 to Tuesday, June 24, 2025 (all day)
Iowa Summer Writing Festival
The Iowa Summer Writing Festival is back on campus at the University of Iowa this June and July, offering 70 weekend and weeklong workshops led by 45 acclaimed instructors.Since 1987, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival has welcomed to The University of Iowa writers from 18 to 98 years of age, from all 50 states, and from every continent. Most come to the workshop table from other areas of expertise, other lives — including the armed forces, business, diplomacy, education, farming, homemaking...
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Iowa Summer Writing Festival: June Workshops

Saturday, June 21 to Tuesday, June 24, 2025 (all day)
Iowa Summer Writing Festival
The Iowa Summer Writing Festival is back on campus at the University of Iowa this June and July, offering 70 weekend and weeklong workshops led by 45 acclaimed instructors.Since 1987, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival has welcomed to The University of Iowa writers from 18 to 98 years of age, from all 50 states, and from every continent. Most come to the workshop table from other areas of expertise, other lives — including the armed forces, business, diplomacy, education, farming, homemaking...
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Iowa Summer Writing Festival: June Workshops

Sunday, June 22 to Tuesday, June 24, 2025 (all day)
Iowa Summer Writing Festival
The Iowa Summer Writing Festival is back on campus at the University of Iowa this June and July, offering 70 weekend and weeklong workshops led by 45 acclaimed instructors.Since 1987, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival has welcomed to The University of Iowa writers from 18 to 98 years of age, from all 50 states, and from every continent. Most come to the workshop table from other areas of expertise, other lives — including the armed forces, business, diplomacy, education, farming, homemaking...
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Iowa Summer Writing Festival: June Workshops

Monday, June 23 to Tuesday, June 24, 2025 (all day)
Iowa Summer Writing Festival
The Iowa Summer Writing Festival is back on campus at the University of Iowa this June and July, offering 70 weekend and weeklong workshops led by 45 acclaimed instructors.Since 1987, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival has welcomed to The University of Iowa writers from 18 to 98 years of age, from all 50 states, and from every continent. Most come to the workshop table from other areas of expertise, other lives — including the armed forces, business, diplomacy, education, farming, homemaking...
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Kevin Smith, "To Practice Is to Blossom"

Monday, June 23, 2025 11:00am to 12:00pm
Gilmore Hall
We want our first draft to be amazing. Sometimes, our first draft isn’t amazing. But rather than experience this as disheartening, we can turn to what musicians and athletes know in their bones: to accomplish our goal, there must be hundreds, even thousands of hours of practice. Whether it’s running laps, playing scales, or penciling a sketch before committing a vision to paint, our creative endeavors flourish through an appreciation for practice. Practice is a kind of blossoming, an...
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