October Events

Three Minute Thesis Workshop: Practice Your Pitch

Friday, October, 1 - 1:00 pm

Practice makes perfect. Join us for a 3MT Workshop, where you will have the opportunity to present your 3MT and to receive feedback from a live audience. Come prepared to present your 3MT pitch and...

Fall Institute on Teaching with Writing: Session 1

Friday, October, 1 - 2:00 pm

Creating Meaningful Writing Tasks: Breaking Assignments into Smaller Parts How do we design meaningful formal writing assignments that engage and motivate our students?  How do we use smaller...

Colloquium - Leveraging Over-provisioned WANs for Next-generation Services

Friday, October, 1 - 4:00 pm

Speaker Rachee Singh Abstract The last decade has seen a large-scale commercialization of cloud computing and the emergence of global cloud providers. Cloud providers have rapidly expanded their...

REDCap Training

Tuesday, October, 5 - 10:00 am

REDCap overview training Not sure what REDCap is? Want to find out if REDCap is suitable for your research project? The REDCap Overview session will cover the basics of REDCap’s functionality and...

Academic Success Workshop - So Much to Do, So Little Time: Time Management Strategies for Academic Success

Tuesday, October, 5 - 10:00 am

Learn about tools to create effective time management plans and to recognize how your academic success is affected by time management. Download the worksheet prior to the session: Time Management...

Learn & Create: 3D Printing Designing

Wednesday, October, 6 - 1:30 pm

Want to learn how to use a 3D printer, but not sure how to get started?  Learn the basics of 3D Design and Modeling in this step-by-step workshop.  Taught by Andrew Delgado, the Iowa 3D Print Club...

REDCap Training

Thursday, October, 7 - 10:00 am

REDCap basic hands-on training This training is a basic overview of REDCap. We will go through the process of creating a REDCap project starting with instrument design, assigning users access to the...

REDCap Training

Thursday, October, 7 - 2:00 pm

REDCap Basic hands-off This training is a basic overview of REDCap that is hands-off/lecture. We will go through the process of creating a REDCap project starting with instrument design, assigning...

ME Graduate Seminar: Beiwen Li

Thursday, October, 7 - 3:30 pm

Making of ORION: Sweating the Small Stuff

Thursday, October, 7 - 3:30 pm

Dr. Ranganath Nuggehalli will discuss UPS’s “On Road Integrated Optimization and Navigation” (ORION) system, which creates routes that maintain the desired level of consistency from day to day....

Kickoff with Breakfast - Decarb 2040 - Coffee, Bagels & Fruit - Positioning Iowa as an energy exporter in the coming age of deep decarbonization

Friday, October, 8 - 8:30 am

Come and chat with us about a one-year community building and research effort centered on clean energy.   Light breakfast provided.    We are an interdisciplinary faculty team from Tippie...

Fall Institute on Teaching with Writing: Session 2

Friday, October, 8 - 2:00 pm

How do we respond to and evaluate student writing, including multimodal work, without overwhelming ourselves and our students? This session, the second in a series of two workshops on teaching with...

Academic Success Workshop - Bouncing Back in Times of Stress: Resiliency

Monday, October, 11 - 2:30 pm

Learn about bouncing back from situations that do not go as planned and set a path towards success. Virtual Workshop Instructions: Click here to join at the time of the workshop – this will...

TriNetX Training

Tuesday, October, 12 - 9:00 am

TriNetX training This training will provide an in depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally...

REDCap Training

Wednesday, October, 13 - 10:00 am

Logic and survey distribution training This training will cover REDCap surveys and logic. From enabling surveys to automatic survey invitations, we'll demonstrate the full survey functionality in...

Learn & Create: 3D Printing Operating the Printer

Wednesday, October, 13 - 1:30 pm

Want to learn how to use a 3D printer, but not sure how to get started?  Learn the basics of 3D Design and Modeling in this step-by-step workshop. Before the workshop, please set up a Personal...

REDCap Training

Thursday, October, 14 - 2:00 pm

REDCap data quality and reports training This course assumes participants have a basic understanding of building instruments and surveys in REDCap. This training will cover the different ways to...

REDCap Training

Thursday, October, 14 - 2:00 pm

REDCap data quality and reports training This course assumes participants have a basic understanding of building instruments and surveys in REDCap. This training will cover the different ways to...

UI College of Pharmacy Building Dedication Ceremony

Friday, October, 15 - 3:00 pm

Join us as we celebrate the completion of our new state-of-the-art building that will educate future pharmacists and scientists for years to come! More information coming soon here.

College of Engineering Party After the Parade

Friday, October, 15 - 7:00 pm

We're very excited to have you join us for a weekend full of events at the College of Engineering! We welcome you to the College of Engineering for the Party after the Parade on Friday, Oct. 15,...

College of Engineering Tailgate

Saturday, October, 16 - 12:00 pm

We're very excited to have you join us for a weekend full of events at the College of Engineering! We welcome you to the College of Engineering Homecoming Tailgate on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021 from...

TriNetX Training

Tuesday, October, 19 - 2:00 pm

TriNetX analytics training TriNetX Analytics is a new functionality within the TriNetX toolset. You will be able to explore and compare cohorts, review cohort characteristics and compare outcomes...

Academic Success Workshop - Test Taking Skills & Strategies: How to be a More Effective Test Taker at Iowa

Wednesday, October, 20 - 10:30 am

Learn about effective ways to approach exams, including memory techniques and strategies for tackling multiple choice questions. Virtual Workshop Instructions: Click here to join at the time of the...

Iowa Technology Institute Open House

Wednesday, October, 20 - 11:00 am

WHO: University of Iowa Technology Institute (formerly Center for Computer-Aided Design) is a basic and applied, multi-disciplinary research hub in the College of Engineering. WHAT: Learn about...

CBE:5000 Graduate Seminar Series - Dr. John Kerekes

Thursday, October, 21 - 11:00 am

Title: Remote Sensing Science and System Engineering: Not Just a Tool Abstract: Remote sensing of the earth from space and airborne platforms has reached a “Golden Age.” Technology has come a...

[CANCELED] Learn & Create: Cutting Vinyl, Paper, & More with a Cricut

Thursday, October, 21 - 1:30 pm

Learn to cut cardboard, paper, wall and window vinyl cling, along with hundreds of other materials. You can also design a variety of products from etextiles to paper circuits using the Cricut. Cricut...

ACM@UIOWA: Tech Talk with Professor Juan Pablo Hourcade- Giving Out Superpowers: A Discussion of Ethics, Cognitive Processes, and the Future of Interactive Technology

Friday, October, 22 - 5:00 pm

Abstract: The use of interactive technologies is changing the way our cognitive processes work: from perception to memory, attention, learning, problem solving, communication, and...

Research Scholars Workshop: Understanding the Publishing Process: Behind the Scenes with IEEE

Wednesday, October, 27 - 1:30 pm

This workshop will cover: Tips for selecting an appropriate IEEE periodical or conference How successful IEEE authors structure quality work to improve their chances of being accepted Insights...

TriNetX Training

Thursday, October, 28 - 2:00 pm

TriNetX training This training will provide an in depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally...

Academic Success Workshop - Daily Habits of Successful Students: Creating Habits that Make a Big Difference

Friday, October, 29 - 2:30 pm

Learn about the daily habits of a successful student, including how basic academic behaviors influence your success.   Session also offered virtually on Wednesday, September 29 from...