Final Thesis Defense- Darby Duffy (Daly and Shaw Research Groups)

Tuesday, July 7, 2026 11:00am
Chemistry Building

Darby Duffy - Daly and Shaw Research Groups

"Synthesis and Characterization of First-Row Transition Metal Complexes with Dinucleating and Redox Active Ligands"

Bachelor of Arts in Social Work Info Session

Tuesday, July 7, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual

Please join us via Zoom for an info session to learn more about earning a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work degree.

https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/96938044127

Contact our Admissions Office directly with any questions or requests.

ssw-admissions@uiowa.edu

319-335-1250

REDCap Intermediate Training

Wednesday, July 8, 2026 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
• And more

T...

Summer Faculty Reading: Ada Zhang and Tom Drury promotional image

Summer Faculty Reading: Ada Zhang and Tom Drury

Wednesday, July 8, 2026 7:00pm
Glenn Schaeffer Library

Join us for a reading by Workshop summer faculty:

Ada Zhang's short stories have appeared in A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. The Sorrows of Others, her first story collection, was published by A Public Space Books. She is a 2024 Whiting Award Winner in Fiction and 2023 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree.

Tom Drury is the author of Pacific, The End of Vandalism, Hunts in Dreams, The Driftless Area, and The Black Brook. His novels have been translated...

REDCap Surveys Training

Thursday, July 9, 2026 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 surveys in...

Biology PhD Dissertation Seminar: "Early vs. late DNA double-strand breaks repair in C. elegans: timing of pathway switch and resection" promotional image

Biology PhD Dissertation Seminar: "Early vs. late DNA double-strand breaks repair in C. elegans: timing of pathway switch and resection"

Thursday, July 9, 2026 1:00pm
Biology Building East
Hui (Thea) Tian, a PhD candidate in the Integrated Biology (iBio) Graduate Program, will be defending her dissertation on Thursday, July 9, at 1:00pm in Room 106, Biology Building East (BBE).

Final Thesis Defense- Janadhi L. Ananda Nakath Durage (Daly Group)

Thursday, July 9, 2026 2:30pm
Chemistry Building

Janadhi L. Ananda Nakath Durage

Daly Research Group

"Unmasking V(II) Intermediates in Dinitrogen Activation and Designing Polypyridyl Complexes for Redox Flow Battery Applications"

Genetics PhD Dissertation Seminar: "Dissecting crossover and non-crossover DSB repair: from tagging RAD-51 to post-synaptic regulation" promotional image

Genetics PhD Dissertation Seminar: "Dissecting crossover and non-crossover DSB repair: from tagging RAD-51 to post-synaptic regulation"

Friday, July 10, 2026 1:00pm
Biology Building East
Joe Oberlitner, a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics, will be defending his dissertation on Friday, July 10, at 1:00pm in Room 106, Biology Building East (BBE).
6th Annual BioBlitz at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory promotional image

6th Annual BioBlitz at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory

Saturday, July 11, 2026 9:00am to 11:00am
Ashton Cross Country Course

What types of plants, animals, and fungal life might you find at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory? Let's find out! 

Join researchers in collecting, observing, and recording biodiversity at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory in our 6th Annual BioBlitz. Your findings will inform a major research project and will contribute to the fifth data point in a multi-year documentation of how diversity changes at this site over time. Collections will be housed with the UI Museum of Natural History...

REDCap Advanced Training

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 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 virtual event link...

Des Moines MSW Info Session

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual

Please join us via Zoom for an info session to learn more about the MSW program in Des Moines at the John and Mary Pappajohn Education Center.

https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/95053466834

Questions? Contact Melanie at melanie-reed@uiowa.edu

Iowa City MSW Info Session

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual
To learn about the MSW program options and specializations available in Iowa City.
From Risk to Recovery: Integrating Research, Systems & Solutions promotional image

From Risk to Recovery: Integrating Research, Systems & Solutions

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 9:00am to 2:00pm
University Capitol Centre

Recovery Friendly Hawkeye Initiative (RFHI) aims to position the University of Iowa as a national leader in Recovery Friendly Workplace practices by fostering a “culture of care” that supports well-being, mental health, and recovery.

In addition to creating an inclusive environment for those impacted by substance use disorders, RFHI advances both basic and applied research on addiction, treatment, and recovery, spanning foundational science through implementation and evaluation of evidence-based...

REDCap MyCap Training

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 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 here:  https:/...

Sioux City MSW Info Session

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Virtual
Sioux City MSW Info Session

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, July 16, 2026 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 usable format...

Final Thesis Defense- Nevindee Samararathne Muhandiramge (MacGillivray)

Thursday, July 16, 2026 1:30pm
Chemistry Building

"Crystal Engineering for the Design of Functional Metal-Organic Materials"

Online MSW Info Session

Thursday, July 16, 2026 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

SEES Grad Defense: Joshua Laird - PhD Defense - "Ordovician trilobite communities: End-Ordovician mass extinction beta diversity collapse, habitat occupancy dynamics, and insights from the Eleanor River Formation (Floian) fauna of Canada"

Friday, July 17, 2026 10:00am
Trowbridge Hall

7/17: 10:00AM - 1PM, 231 TH (Trowbridge Hall)

Title: Ordovician trilobite communities: End-Ordovician mass extinction beta diversity collapse, habitat occupancy dynamics, and insights from the Eleanor River Formation (Floian) fauna of Canada

Abstract: Trilobites (extinct marine arthropods) reached peak diversity during the Ordovician, when the group was divided into the Ibex and Whiterock evolutionary faunas. During the Early to early-Middle Ordovician, species of these faunas occupied habitats...

Final Thesis Defense- Hung Nguyen (Margulis)

Friday, July 17, 2026 1:30pm
Chemistry Building

"Structure and Dynamics of Irradiation Induced Species in MgCl2-KCl Molten Salts"

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