Tuesday, February 10 | 1:00–2:00 p.m.
Location: Room 2520-D, University Capitol Centre (UCC), 200 South Capitol St., Iowa City.

A welcome gathering for new UIRA members will take place beginning at 11:30 a.m.
A complimentary lunch will be offered from 12:15–1:00 p.m. for attendees.

Please RSVP by February 6:

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Clark Buelt, wealth management advisor with TIAA Financial Services, will talk with us about financial decisions retirees make, some of the options open to...

Sunday, February 15, 2026, 4:00–6:30 p.m.
Location: Tavern Blue, 805 2nd St., Coralville.
Free-will donation at the door.

Please join the University of Iowa Retirees Association (UIRA) for a fundraiser benefiting the UI Student Food Pantry, featuring live music by the local band Homebrewed. This welcoming, community-focused event is dedicated to supporting the pantry, which provides a critical service during a time of persistently high food prices and ongoing financial pressures. The pantry...

Date: Wednesday, February 18 | 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Location: Room 2520-D, University Capitol Centre (UCC), 200 South Capitol St., Iowa City, and via Zoom

Coffee and cookies will be available for in-person attendees beginning at approximately 11:30 a.m.

Please RSVP by February 16: Grecian Urns RSVP Form

In the beloved Broadway show The Music Man, when con man Harold Hill tells Mrs. Shinn that her every move “bespeaks Delsarte” what does he mean? And when the ladies of River City form a dance troupe, why...

This seminar will cover fundamental concepts of proposal planning and writing for the Arts and Humanities faculty backed by concrete tips and operational strategies that support planning and longer-term sustainability.

Planning and Writing Successful Grant Proposals in the Creative Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities Seminar

The Research Development Office is hosting an in person grant writing seminar, Planning and Writing Successful Grant Proposals in the Creative Arts, Social Sciences, and...

Date: Tuesday, March 24 | 12:30–1:30 p.m.
Location: Room 2520-D, University Capitol Centre (UCC), 200 South Capitol St., Iowa City, and via Zoom

Professor Mary Charlton holds a BS in nursing and MS and PhD degrees in epidemiology, all from the University of Iowa. She joined the faculty in the College of Public Health in 2013 and became the director of the Iowa Cancer Registry in 2020. She has focused particular attention on cancer risk and treatment in rural areas and on racial/ethnic disparities...

Directed by Brian R. Farrell, Daria Fisher Page, and Ryan T. Sakoda (UI College of Law), Cultivating Rurality: Building Community around Rural Research will bring together scholars, community leaders from across the U.S., and professionals who work with rural populations and in rural spaces. During the symposium, attendees will be invited to collaborate in theorizing rurality, share how it impacts their work, examine how rurality is represented and celebrated, and begin to discuss challenges...

Directed by Brian R. Farrell, Daria Fisher Page, and Ryan T. Sakoda (UI College of Law), Cultivating Rurality: Building Community around Rural Research will bring together scholars, community leaders from across the U.S., and professionals who work with rural populations and in rural spaces. During the symposium, attendees will be invited to collaborate in theorizing rurality, share how it impacts their work, examine how rurality is represented and celebrated, and begin to discuss challenges...

Tuesday, April 14, 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Location: Room 2520-D, University Capitol Centre (UCC), 200 South Capitol St., Iowa City, and via Zoom

Join UIRA for an informative session on how artificial intelligence is transforming medical practice and patient care.

Presenters include James Blum, MD, Chief Health Information Officer and Associate Professor of Anesthesia, and Jason Misurac, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics–Nephrology, Dialysis, and Transplantation in the Stead Family Department...

Professor Emerita Niño-Murcia will discuss big and small ways in which language politics generate and perpetuate North American inequalities.

This lecture traces Professor Trachsel's studies on cross-species communication from analyses of ape language research in the early 2000’s to investigation of other interspecies language types, such as horse whispering and the telepathy professed by animal communicators. Her current research on human-wild animal relationships has entailed wolf-tracking in Yellowstone, a “women and wolves” workshop in the Boundary Waters, observation of feral horses out west, and visits to wildlife "encounter"...

The internet mews, barks, growls, and hisses with alleged evidence of cross-species attachment. These stories — from Genesis to Victorian animal painter Edwin Landseer’s narrative paintings to the latest videos and memes — entice audiences with the promise that we can bridge and bond across species difference. But they also document what it costs animals for humans to be near them. 

~ Sponsored by the Emeritus Faculty Council and the Office of the Provost ~

This talk will give an overview of three research initiatives that use VR technology. First, a series of studies that used large screen pedestrian and bicycling simulators to examine how two people coordinate their decisions and actions when crossing a stream of traffic. The studies reveal the powerful influence that others have on how we make consequential decisions in performing routine but potentially dangerous activities. Second, a series of studies looking at how mobile technology can help...

This lecture will detail our 38-year journey toward the restoration of vision for people blinded by inherited retinal disease.

Edwin M. Stone, MD, PhD, is Professor of Ophthalmology. Director of the Iowa Institute for Vision Research, and the Seamans-Hauser Chair of Molecular Ophthalmology.

~ Sponsored by the Emeritus Faculty Council and the Office of the Provost ~