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BMindful Holy Days: Good Friday (Christianity)
Friday, March 29, 2024
BMindful is an initiative that seeks to meet the needs of diverse communities by providing event and conference planners with the dates of holy days of major religious faiths for five years into the future. By providing these dates in advance, BMindful seeks to help planners avoid those dates when scheduling events....
OPEN: Family Spirit Award Nominations
Friday, March 29, 2024
Calling all Hawkeyes! It’s time to nominate your favorite family for the 2024 University of Iowa Family Spirit Award....
2024 Staff Council Nominations are Open!
Friday, March 29, 2024
Are you or someone you know eager to make a difference at the University of Iowa? Are you seeking avenues to enhance your workplace environment? Do you have concerns about campus issues? Are you passionate about driving positive change? If so, consider nominating yourself or a colleague for the UI Staff Council! Join us in representing the over 9,000 non-bargaining staff members at the University of Iowa and contribute to shaping a brighter future together. Nomin...
Clinical Conference: Glaucoma (Mansour F. Armaly Lecture)
Friday, March 29, 2024, 8:00am to 12:00pm
Guest Speaker: David S. Friedman, MD, PhD, MPH ...
Bushy - Kate Doolittle BFA Exhibition - School of Art and Art History
Friday, March 29, 2024, 8:00am to 8:00pm
Windows - Lauren Krukowski MFA Exhibition- School of Art and Art History
Friday, March 29, 2024, 8:00am to 8:00pm
Closing Reception Friday, March 29, 2024 from 5 to 7 p.m.
NCBI: Conflict and Controversial Issues
Friday, March 29, 2024, 8:30am to 12:30pm
Developed by the National Coalition Building Institute, this process gives leaders skills to deal constructively with tough conflicts, enabling them to move disputing parties toward future cooperation. The skills practices in the NCBI Controversial Issue Process are applicable to every conflict situation, whether the controversy involves a labor-management dispute, a clash between different organizations, or a quarrel among coworkers. Note: Individuals who complete or have completed NCBI...
ARIS Broader Impacts/Research Impacts Seminars: Session 5 - BI Identity
Friday, March 29, 2024, 9:00am to 11:00am
The National Science Foundation (NSF) considers two criteria in their review of proposals: intellectual merit and broader impacts (BI). Broader impacts relate to how the proposed research will “benefit society or advance desired societal outcomes” and is increasingly used as the differentiator between which excellent proposals to fund or not....
Making the Book, Past and Present
Friday, March 29, 2024, 9:00am to 6:00pm
On display in the Main Library Gallery:...
Clarence Tow Lecture in Finance: Josh Lerner
Friday, March 29, 2024, 10:45am
Join us to hear from Josh Lerner, Harvard University. His presentation is titled, "What Do Impact Investors Do Differently?" ...
Adipocyte-specific BBSome and its influence on metabolism and cardiovascular dynamics
Friday, March 29, 2024, 11:00am to 12:00pm
Human Toxicology Program student Yuying Zhao will be presenting her research on adipocyte-specific BBSome and its influence on metabolism and cardiovascular dynamics. Yuying has been doing her research with Dr. Kamal Rahmouni.
Eine Kleine Lunch Music - Concert #68
Friday, March 29, 2024, 12:00pm
Eine Kleine Lunch Music - Concert #68 Join us for our Lunch Series Concerts! University of Iowa School of Music Students will be performing in the Dusdieker Student Commons - Level 0. Be sure to mark your calendar for other performances in this year's series: March 29 April 26 Learn more here: https://music.uiowa.edu/eine-kleine-lunch-music#upcoming-concerts This concert is free and open to the public.
Connection & Resilience Workshop
Friday, March 29, 2024, 12:00pm to 1:30pm
The UI Collegiate Recovery Program (CRP) is offering a four-week workshop based on Brené Brown's Connections Curriculum. The goal of this workshop is to examine the roles of shame, resilience and empathy and the impacts on how they view themselves and their relationships. This interactive workshop will include group discussions, opportunities to practice coping strategies and selected readings from Brené Brown....
What is an overseas Japanese space? Incendiary test structures and “things Japanese”
Friday, March 29, 2024, 12:00pm to 1:30pm
As part of its WW II incendiary weapons development program, the United States designed and built test structures to use in weapons performance trials. The most well-known of these might be the German and Japanese tenement housing at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. This presentation compares the design processes of the Japanese and German test structures, and locates the Japanese structures among late 19th and 20th century practices of modeling Japanese material culture and “Japanicizing”...
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs Q&A
Friday, March 29, 2024, 12:00pm
The Writers' Workshop presents a Q&A session with Latasha N. Nevada Diggs....
3rd Annual True Lecture: Dr. Dave Clark- Los Alamos National Laboratory
Friday, March 29, 2024, 12:30pm to 1:20pm
ISRC Workshop: Introduction to R
Friday, March 29, 2024, 12:30pm to 1:45pm
This workshop will offer a basic introduction to R. Participants will be introduced to the R interface, command syntax, R-script files, and basic functions (e.g., opening a dataset, summary statistics, etc.). We will also discuss how to merge and work with multiple datasets. This is an introductory workshop appropriate for those with limited or no familiarity with R. Example code will be provided. Instructor: Nathan Timbs
Linguistics Day 2024
Friday, March 29, 2024, 12:30pm to 4:15pm
Meet faculty and undergraduate & graduate students in linguistics to learn about their research projects and the university's linguistics program....
Story Lab Showcase Prep (On-Campus)
Friday, March 29, 2024, 1:00pm to 3:00pm
In preparation for the April 26 Story Lab Showcase at MERGE, we will meet Fridays in March and April starting on 3/8. Attend these casual sessions to workshop and practice your story. Questions? Contact Nick Westergaard at nick-westergaard@uiowa.edu.
Business Analytics Guest Lecturer Seminar Series: Mehrdad Moharrami
Friday, March 29, 2024, 1:00pm
Join us to hear from Mehrdad Moharrami, who will present “A Policy Gradient Algorithm for the Risk-Sensitive Exponential Cost MDP."...
Psychological and Brain Sciences Colloquium: Paul Frankland, University of Toronto
Friday, March 29, 2024, 3:30pm
Psychological and Brain Sciences Colloquium...
EAC: Navigating Intercultural Conflicts
Friday, March 29, 2024, 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Instructors: Pauline Beazer James, Senior Advisor, International Student and Scholar Services; and Brandon Paulson, Assistant Director, International Student and Scholar Services....
Stephen Best: “Baldwin's Inarticulacy”
Friday, March 29, 2024, 3:30pm to 5:00pm
The Department of English and Obermann Center are hosting Stephen Best on Friday, March 29 at 3:30 p.m. in 304 EPB (Gerber). UI PhD candidate Sarah Frank will introduce Professor Best and UI Professor Deborah Whaley will serve as respondent....
Computer Science - Founders Day Celebration
Friday, March 29, 2024, 3:30pm to 5:00pm
On the occasion of our 59th anniversary, the Department of Computer Science at Iowa cordially invites you to attend our 2nd Annual Founders Day Celebration. This event will be held Friday, March 29, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Muhly Lounge (3 MLH). Please join us for ice cream sundaes as we celebrate the achievements of the extraordinary students and faculty in our department! RSVP by Tuesday, March 26.
EES Geoscience Seminar Series: Dr. Matthew M. Jones (USGS) "Anomalous volcanic carbon dioxide release and Cretaceous Ocean Anoxic Event 2"
Friday, March 29, 2024, 3:30pm to 5:00pm
"Anomalous volcanic carbon dioxide release and Cretaceous Ocean Anoxic Event 2"...
Clarence Tow Lecture in Economics: Yu Awaya
Friday, March 29, 2024, 3:30pm
Join us to hear from Yu Awaya, University of Rochester, presenting, "Spreading Information via Social Networks: An Irrelevance Result."...
Statistical Modeling and Inference for Social Networks
Friday, March 29, 2024, 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Speaker: Buddhika Nettasinghe, Dept. of Business Analytics
Floating Fridays- Robert Rouphail
Friday, March 29, 2024, 4:00pm to 5:00pm
What, if any, is the relationship between natural disaster and historical processes of identity formation? Drawing from the 20th century history of Mauritius, a multi-ethnic and linguistically plural island in Indian Ocean Africa, this presentation examines how tropical cyclones (hurricanes) compelled everyday Mauritians and their late-colonial British government to reckon with questions of identity and power. At the moment of their landfall and in the days, months, and years that followed,...
Biology Seminar: "History Repeats Itself: Genetic changes underlying convergent traits revealed through comparative genomics"
Friday, March 29, 2024, 4:00pm
The Department of Biology’s seminar speaker on Friday, March 29, is Nathan Clark, an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Clark’s seminar will be held at 4 p.m. in Kollros Auditorium (Room 101) in Biology Building East (BBE). John Logsdon is the faculty host.
Nonfiction Writing Program Alumni Reading Series: Deborah Taffa
Friday, March 29, 2024, 5:30pm
Writer Deborah Taffa, a graduate of the Nonfiction Writing Program and MFA director of the Institute of American Indian Arts, will read from her debut book Whiskey Tender at Prairie Lights Books on Friday, March 31 at 5:30 p.m. This event, which is open to the public, is part of the NWP Alumni Reading Series.
ACM@UIOWA: Pickleball and more!
Friday, March 29, 2024, 6:30pm to 8:30pm
ACM invites you to play pickleball at the Field House. Come play pickleball, or explore the other options such as basketball with us! Those who are not ACM@UIOWA members should go to Chapter website for more information and to join!
Creation Haven
Friday, March 29, 2024, 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Join the Pride Alliance Center at our Creation Haven night market! We'll be featuring queer creatives from on campus and around Iowa City as they showcase their unique creations. Come to the Black Box Theater for an evening of vendors, music, and community support!
$4 Fridays at FilmScene
Friday, March 29, 2024, 8:00pm to 11:59pm
Every Friday after 8 p.m., students can see any new release film for just $4 at either FilmScene location. Sit back, relax, and enjoy a late night at the movies!...