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Horizons: Above, Below & Beyond - Lexie Doerr MFA Exhibition - School of Art, Art History, and Design

Thursday, March 12, 2026 8:00am to 8:00pm
Art Building West

Closing Reception: Friday, March 13 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

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Missing Memories - Addison Blake BFA Exhibition - School of Art, Art History, and Design

Thursday, March 12, 2026 8:00am to 8:00pm
Visual Arts Building
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A Lived Naturism - Nicholas Goergen MFA Exhibition - School of Art, Art History, and Design

Thursday, March 12, 2026 8:00am to 8:00pm
Visual Arts Building
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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain: Reading & Q&A

Thursday, March 12, 2026 8:00pm to 9:00pm
Dey House

Sterling HolyWhiteMountain grew up on the Blackfeet Reservation. He holds a BA in English creative writing from the University of Montana and an MFA in fiction from the University of Iowa. He was a James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin and a Stegner fellow at Stanford University. His work has appeared in volumes 1 and 2 of Off the Path: An Anthology of 21st Century American Indian and Indigenous Writers, Montana Quarterly, ESPN.com., The Yellow Medicine Review and The...

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Horizons: Above, Below & Beyond - Lexie Doerr MFA Exhibition - School of Art, Art History, and Design

Friday, March 13, 2026 8:00am to 8:00pm
Art Building West

Closing Reception: Friday, March 13 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

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Missing Memories - Addison Blake BFA Exhibition - School of Art, Art History, and Design

Friday, March 13, 2026 8:00am to 8:00pm
Visual Arts Building
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CSD Professional Seminar Series

Friday, March 13, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual

Title: "Iowa’s Legacy in Dysarthria Assessment: Extending a Foundational Diagnostic Approach within a Psychophysical Framework"

Speaker: Mili Kuruvilla-Dugdale, Ph.D

Building on the University of Iowa’s foundational contributions to the assessment of motor speech disorders, this talk advances a psychophysical framework to improve the auditory-perceptual assessment of dysarthria. Traditional scaling methods remain widely used despite well-recognized limitations, including poor listener reliability...

Beyond the Mean: Risk Sensitivity, Safety and Reliability in Reinforcement Learning

Friday, March 13, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Mehrdad Moharrani, Department of Computer Science

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Application Deadline: Obermann End-of-Year Writing Retreat

Friday, March 13, 2026 5:00pm
North Ridge Pavilion

Have you been waiting all school year to make serious progress on your book manuscript, article, or grant application? Jumpstart your summer writing project at the Obermann End-of-Year Writing Retreat May 11–14, 2026!

Fifteen participants will enjoy a week of quiet productivity apart from the distractions of campus at the beautiful North Ridge Pavilion in Coralville. Daily catered lunches will provide an opportunity for exchange and discussion with other writers across campus. Each day will...

Owl of Minerva Theater Movie Night

Friday, March 13, 2026 5:30pm
English-Philosophy Building

Triumph of the Will (1935, Reni Riefenstahl). 105 min.

MA Recital: Henry Giles, piano

Friday, March 13, 2026 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building

MA Recital: Henry Giles, piano

Click here for program.

Event can be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Physics and Astronomy Demo Show

Friday, March 13, 2026 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Van Allen Hall
Witness real-life physics in action through engaging demonstrations! Our interactive show combines thrilling experiments with dazzling astronomical displays, making complex concepts fun and understandable!

Midnorth IDRS Guest Double Reed Recital featuring Nancy Ambrose King and Keith Sweger

Saturday, March 14, 2026 11:00am
Voxman Music Building

Midnorth IDRS Guest Double Reed Recital featuring Nancy Ambrose King and Keith Sweger

Nancy Ambrose King, oboe
Keith Sweger, bassoon
Alan Huckleberry, piano

This event is free and open to the public. 

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Poetry WorkShop at Harlan, IA Community Library- The Invisible Poem: Hajri Aga and william o'neal ii

Saturday, March 14, 2026 11:00am to 1:00pm
Harlan Community Library

Free Event - 16 & Up featuring Writers' Workshop students Hajri Aga and william o'neal ii -- Poetry Readings, Discussions, Create New Poetry, or Bring Your Own Poetry Projects. A light lunch will be served for participants. "The mission of the Harlan Community Library is to provide a welcoming place to promote the love of reading and the joy of learning to the community." Library resources and services include a multitude of viewpoints. The library does not endorse any single position or opinion...

Midnorth IDRS Host Recital featuring David Cyzak and Ben Coelho

Saturday, March 14, 2026 6:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Midnorth IDRS Host Recital featuring David Cyzak and Ben Coelho

David Cyzak, oboe
Ben Coelho, bassoon
Mariya Akhadjanova, piano
Felisha Jones, oboe
Lindsay Flowers, English horn

This event is free and open to the public. 

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The Great American Bison Road Trip

Sunday, March 15, 2026 1:30pm to 3:00pm
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
Join the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History during their day as a stop on the national bronze bison road trip!
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Astronomy Public Talk - John Momberg; Graduate Student; Department of Physics and Astronomy

Friday, March 20, 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 graduate student John Momberg, who will explore how astronomers have historically used variable stars—particularly Cepheids—to measure cosmic distances and ultimately determine the size and scale of the universe.

A public observing session at the Van Allen...

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