Department of Chemistry
Inorganic & Chem Ed Seminar- Prof. Valerie Payre
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 12:30pm
Valerie Payre, Assistant Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Iowahttps://ees.uiowa.edu/people/valerie-payreResearch Interests: Planetary evolution, Magmatic processes, Surface processes, Remote sensing, Rover, Experimental petrology, Thermodynamical modelinghttps://valeriepayre.weebly.com/Title: "Mars Volcanism: An Unexpected Complexity"Abstract: This last decade, rover observations and martian meteorites revealed unexpected complex volcanic processes. Thought to be...
Final MS Defense- Idowu Otunomo
Thursday, April 17, 2025 10:30am
"Halodefluorination of Unactivated Trifluoromethyl Compounds and MOFs Doped with Boronic Acid for Glucose Sensing"
Analytical Seminar- Grace Akporere
Thursday, April 17, 2025 12:30pm
"Environmental Chemistry at the Nexus of Agriculture, Biotechnology, and Health"
Final MS Defense- Bryce Shoberg
Friday, April 18, 2025 12:30pm
"Electroactive Polymers with Sulfur-Nitrogen Backbones: Characterization of Novel Electrochemical Materials"
Final Thesis Defense: Piyumi Wijesirigunawardana
Friday, April 18, 2025 1:30pm
"trans-Banglene as a neurotrophic agent"
Physical & Environmental Chemistry Seminar- Tri Nghia Le
Monday, April 21, 2025 12:30pm
Title: Driving catalytic chemical transformations through computational insights
Graduate College

Nominations Open for Family Spirit Award
Monday, April 14 to Wednesday, April 30, 2025 (all day)
Calling all Hawkeyes! It’s time to nominate your favorite family for the 2025 University of Iowa Family Spirit Award.The award recognizes a family—spanning at least three generations of Iowa graduates—that has substantially benefited from and continues to advocate for the university, as well as contributes toward bettering the state of Iowa and its communities.Nominate a family: https://www.foriowa.org/family-spirit/nomination.phpThe recipients of this award will receive the ultimate Hawkeye...

Nominations Open for Family Spirit Award
Tuesday, April 15 to Wednesday, April 30, 2025 (all day)
Calling all Hawkeyes! It’s time to nominate your favorite family for the 2025 University of Iowa Family Spirit Award.The award recognizes a family—spanning at least three generations of Iowa graduates—that has substantially benefited from and continues to advocate for the university, as well as contributes toward bettering the state of Iowa and its communities.Nominate a family: https://www.foriowa.org/family-spirit/nomination.phpThe recipients of this award will receive the ultimate Hawkeye...
REDCap Advanced Training
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
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...

Final Exam – Towards a Secure and Accessible Internet over IPv6
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 12:00pm
PhD Candidate: Hammas TanveerAbstractThe Internet is undergoing a major shift with the adoption of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), a new protocol designed to mitigate the long-standing issue of IP address exhaustion. Unlike its predecessor, IPv4, which had a limited number of IP addresses, IPv6 offers a virtually unlimited address space. Although the expansive address space has its advantages, it has also introduced new challenges related to security and accessibility that remain poorly...

Curator Guided Tour of 'A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive' with Rich Dana
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Join curator Rich Dana for a special guided tour of the current Main Library Gallery exhibition, A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive. All are welcome to attend this free event.
About the exhibit:
In 1897, French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé revolutionized the world of graphic design with a single poem that forever changed the way we look at words. His work illustrated how text conveys meaning not only through words, but also as visual symbols that contain a deeper...

Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Graduate Program Guest Speaker and Alumna, Jessica R. Thomas, PhD
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 4:00pm
Department of Access, Opportunity, and Diversity

International Student Weekly Coffee Hour
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 11:30am to 12:30pm
Starting Jan. 22, 2025, Life in Iowa, hosted by International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) and International Student Support and Engagement (ISSE), invite international students and scholars at the University of Iowa to join them for a weekly coffee hour every Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at T.Spoons coffee shop in the University Capitol Centre.
Enjoy a (free!) coffee, tea, or hot chocolate and engage in casual conversations with students, staff, and campus and community...

International Student Weekly Coffee Hour
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 11:30am to 12:30pm
Starting Jan. 22, 2025, Life in Iowa, hosted by International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) and International Student Support and Engagement (ISSE), invite international students and scholars at the University of Iowa to join them for a weekly coffee hour every Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at T.Spoons coffee shop in the University Capitol Centre.
Enjoy a (free!) coffee, tea, or hot chocolate and engage in casual conversations with students, staff, and campus and community...

International Student Weekly Coffee Hour
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 11:30am to 12:30pm
Starting Jan. 22, 2025, Life in Iowa, hosted by International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) and International Student Support and Engagement (ISSE), invite international students and scholars at the University of Iowa to join them for a weekly coffee hour every Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at T.Spoons coffee shop in the University Capitol Centre.
Enjoy a (free!) coffee, tea, or hot chocolate and engage in casual conversations with students, staff, and campus and community...