Biology Seminar: "Influenza: A virus at the human-animal interface and zoonoses"
Friday, August 28, 2026 3:30pm
The Department of Biology’s first seminar of the semester will be held on Friday, August 28, featuring Tavis Anderson, PhD, a Research Biologist with the National Animal Disease Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)-Agricultural Research Service (ARS). His seminar will be held at 3:30pm in Kollros Auditorium (Room 101), Biology Building East (BBE).
Study Hall
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 10:00am to 12:00pm
The Museum of Natural History welcomes students each week for a study session in our galleries. We'll provide the snacks, cushions, and ambiance. You bring your planners, textbooks, or assignments. Together, we'll stay ahead of our goals this semester.
Art & Write Night
Friday, September 4, 2026 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces.
Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists.
Tell a friend, grab a notebook, and join us on the first Friday of each month. We'll provide a new inspo prompt for each session and...
Study Hall
Wednesday, September 9, 2026 10:00am to 12:00pm
The Museum of Natural History welcomes students each week for a study session in our galleries. We'll provide the snacks, cushions, and ambiance. You bring your planners, textbooks, or assignments. Together, we'll stay ahead of our goals this semester.
Peer Review Process and Journal Expectations
Thursday, September 10, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Build your scholarly toolkit with this workshop on the peer review process
Graduate & Professional Students: Let's Do Lunch!
Tuesday, September 15, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Bring your academic interests to the table and engage with fellow graduate and professional students in a casual, supportive environment.
Field Trip to the Rodale Institute Midwest Organic Center
Tuesday, September 15, 2026 3:30pm to 6:00pm
Step outside the classroom and discover how research is shaping the future of food and agriculture. Join fellow UI students for a tour of the Rodale Institute Midwest Organic Center at Eztel Sugar Grove Farm in Marion, Iowa.
Study Hall
Wednesday, September 16, 2026 10:00am to 12:00pm
The Museum of Natural History welcomes students each week for a study session in our galleries. We'll provide the snacks, cushions, and ambiance. You bring your planners, textbooks, or assignments. Together, we'll stay ahead of our goals this semester.
Study Hall
Wednesday, September 23, 2026 10:00am to 12:00pm
The Museum of Natural History welcomes students each week for a study session in our galleries. We'll provide the snacks, cushions, and ambiance. You bring your planners, textbooks, or assignments. Together, we'll stay ahead of our goals this semester.
Maker Break: Fold Into Fall – An Origami Leaf Craft
Wednesday, September 23, 2026 11:30am to 1:00pm
Drop in anytime for a fun, themed craft that takes just 10–20 minutes and explore your creativity.
All Majors Career Fair
Thursday, September 24, 2026 11:00am to 4:00pm
This job and internship fair will focus on recruiting students in ALL MAJORS! Typically about 100+ employers attend and 1,000+ students attend!
Visit careers.uiowa.edu/all-majors-career-fair for more details.
Creating Citations with EndNote
Thursday, September 24, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Build your scholarly toolkit with this workshop on citation management with EndNote.
Introduction to Spatial Data Science with Jinyi Cai
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Many social science questions have a spatial dimension. Exploring spatial patterns can help researchers generate hypotheses about how geography shapes social and environmental processes in their studies. This workshop is for beginners to learn a practical workflow for exploring spatial patterns of socio-demographic and environmental data. Through a hands-on case study, participants will retrieve socio-demographic data through the U.S. Census API and integrate it with spatial datasets. They will then use interactive visualization to explore geographic patterns and apply spatial statistical methods to identify spatial clusters, where nearby areas have similar values, and spatial outliers, where locations differ from their neighbors. Participants will learn to conduct these analyses in Google Colab using Jupyter notebooks based on Python. The cloud-based environment allows them to run analyses and scale computation on large datasets without local software installation. Basic familiarity with Python is helpful but not required.
Study Hall
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 10:00am to 12:00pm
The Museum of Natural History welcomes students each week for a study session in our galleries. We'll provide the snacks, cushions, and ambiance. You bring your planners, textbooks, or assignments. Together, we'll stay ahead of our goals this semester.
Art & Write Night
Friday, October 2, 2026 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces.
Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists.
Tell a friend, grab a notebook, and join us on the first Friday of each month. We'll provide a new inspo prompt for each session and...
Intermediate Spatial Data Science and GeoAI with Dr. Caglar Koylu
Tuesday, October 6, 2026 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Many social, environmental, and health processes exhibit spatial patterns. Nearby places may be related, and relationships between variables may vary across locations. When these spatial patterns are ignored, key assumptions of traditional statistical methods can be violated, leading to biased or misleading results.
This workshop introduces concepts and methods in spatial statistics and GeoAI for analyzing such patterns and relationships. Participants will learn about spatial dependence, where nearby observations tend to be related, and spatial heterogeneity and non-stationarity, where relationships between variables vary across space. Through a hands-on case study, participants will use mapping and spatial statistical methods to identify these patterns.
The workshop will also introduce XGBoost as a machine-learning approach for modeling complex and nonlinear relationships and use SHAP (Shapley Additive Explanations) to interpret how different variables contribute to model predictions in the social, environmental, and health sciences.
Analyses will be conducted in Python using Google Colab. Some familiarity with quantitative data analysis and spatial data science is encouraged. Prior experience with machine learning or programming is not required.
This workshop introduces concepts and methods in spatial statistics and GeoAI for analyzing such patterns and relationships. Participants will learn about spatial dependence, where nearby observations tend to be related, and spatial heterogeneity and non-stationarity, where relationships between variables vary across space. Through a hands-on case study, participants will use mapping and spatial statistical methods to identify these patterns.
The workshop will also introduce XGBoost as a machine-learning approach for modeling complex and nonlinear relationships and use SHAP (Shapley Additive Explanations) to interpret how different variables contribute to model predictions in the social, environmental, and health sciences.
Analyses will be conducted in Python using Google Colab. Some familiarity with quantitative data analysis and spatial data science is encouraged. Prior experience with machine learning or programming is not required.
Science & Health Connections Fair: Employers, Graduate Programs, Medical Schools
Tuesday, October 6, 2026 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Students will explore and connect with:
Life science, health science & sustainability companies
Internship/full-time positions
Graduate and service programs and medical schools
Research and volunteer opportunities
Check-in at International Ballroom Lobby in Iowa Memorial Union.
Bring your Student ID, copies of your resume and dress for success!
Study Hall
Wednesday, October 7, 2026 10:00am to 12:00pm
The Museum of Natural History welcomes students each week for a study session in our galleries. We'll provide the snacks, cushions, and ambiance. You bring your planners, textbooks, or assignments. Together, we'll stay ahead of our goals this semester.
Study Hall
Wednesday, October 14, 2026 10:00am to 12:00pm
The Museum of Natural History welcomes students each week for a study session in our galleries. We'll provide the snacks, cushions, and ambiance. You bring your planners, textbooks, or assignments. Together, we'll stay ahead of our goals this semester.
AI and Literature Discovery
Thursday, October 15, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Build your scholarly toolkit with workshop on AI-powered literature discovery.