May Events

Hardin Open Workshops - PubMed (In Person and Zoom)

Thursday, May 1, 2025, 11:30am to 12:30pm

This hands-on session will help you improve your searching through best practices for basic and advanced searching and show you features for saving or exporting citations. The session will also help you understand medical subject headings (MeSH) and how they improve your search as well as the benefits of a MyNCBI account. PLEASE NOTE: Advance registration is required to participate on Zoom. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes before the class time.

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Workshop - Abigail (Abby) Morrison and Julius Yevdash

Thursday, May 1, 2025, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Presented by Abby Morrison Graduate Student in Dr. Kristina Thiel's lab Presented by Julius Yevdash Graduate student in the labs of Drs. Colin Kenny and Robert Weigel

Hardin Open Workshops - EndNote Desktop (Zoom)

Friday, May 2, 2025, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

EndNote is a reference management tool that helps you to easily gather together your references in one place, organize them, and then insert them into papers and format them in a style of your choosing. This session will walk you through the basics of using EndNote to collect and format your citations. The class will be hands-on, and there will be time for questions at the end.

2025 UI College of Pharmacy Zada Cooper Leadership Symposium

Saturday, May 3, 2025, 8:00am to 1:00pm

The Zada Cooper Leadership Symposium celebrates the legacy of Zada Mary Cooper, a trailblazer in pharmacy education and leadership. A graduate of the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy in 1897, Cooper dedicated her career to advancing the profession, serving as a faculty member for 45 years until her retirement in 1942....

Microbiology Undergraduate Student Association (MUSA) Meeting

Sunday, May 4, 2025, 4:00pm

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REDCap Basic Training

Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 10:00am to 11:00am

This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as:...

ACB Seminar Series - Alan Saghatelian

Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 9:30am to 10:30am

Dr. Alan Saghatelian, a Professor from the Salk Insitute for Biological Studies will present a seminar titled, "Searching the Dark Matter of the Proteome for Functional Proteins."

REDCap Intermediate Training

Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 10:00am to 11:00am

This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as:...

REDCap Surveys Training

Thursday, May 8, 2025, 10:00am to 11:00am

This is the third step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover survey configuration and distribution such as:...

Biomedical & Health Informatics Community Meeting

Thursday, May 8, 2025, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

We have established a community of CCOM Informaticists who are applying these skills in their work at UIHC. You are invited to join us during our monthly seminar presentations. 

Wide Lens: LISTENING

Thursday, May 8, 2025, 5:30pm

In a world full of noise, we often try listening to something: conversations with colleagues and family, music in our headphones, videos blasting from our smartphones. We hear all these things daily, but what does it mean to truly listen? In what sense do devices also listen to us? What is the role of silence in listening? How has listening changed over time? Can political tensions be solved through “listening”? How is listening both an art and a science? This Wide Lens event brings together...

27th Annual Optometric Conference

Friday, May 9, 2025, 8:00am to 4:00pm

Each Spring faculty at the University of Iowa Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences present a full-day conference for optometric practitioners. This conference will provide the optometric practitioner with information that will assist him/her with diagnostic dilemmas and patient questions that are encountered daily. This activity will also provide information about current and expected diagnostic and treatment options for a variety of eye diseases. Finally, this activity will...

Hawk-IDDRC Seminar Series: Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, MD, PhD; Rush University Medical Center

Friday, May 9, 2025, 12:00pm

Please join us for the Hawk-IDDRC Seminar Series Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, MD, PhD; Rush University Medical Center Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Neurological Sciences, Anatomy and Cell Biology Director, RUSH Pediatric Neurosciences F.A.S.T. Center for Translational Research Friday, May 9, 2025, noon CST in the Pediatric Conference Center JCP2415 More information to come!  

REDCap Advanced Training

Tuesday, May 13, 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:...

TriNetX Basic Training

Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 2:00pm to 3:00pm

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 what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research. ...

REDCap MyCap Training

Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 10:00am to 11:00am

This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as:...

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, May 15, 2025, 10:00am to 11:00am

This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training we won't use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as:...

Skills for Educators Workshop: Teaching Clinical Reasoning

Friday, May 16, 2025, 8:30am to 11:30am

This session will focus on strategies and tools for assessing and teaching learners clinical/diagnostic reasoning. Objectives: Describe how clinical reasoning evolves and the model of "Dual Processing Reasoning." Analyze and assess diagnostic reasoning of learners. Give specific feedback to improve diagnostic reasoning of learners. Click here to register.

Carver College of Medicine Commencement Ceremony - Doctor of Medicine and Masters in Medical Education Degree Candidates

Friday, May 16, 2025, 6:30pm

Doctor of Medicine and Masters in Medical Education Degree Candidates. Doors open one hour prior to the start of the ceremony. No tickets required.

Carver College of Medicine Associated Medical Sciences Commencement Ceremony

Saturday, May 17, 2025, 2:00pm

Doors open one hour prior to the start of the ceremony. No tickets required.  Graduates from the following programs of study (majors) will be recognized: Master of Clinical Anatomy Master of Clinical Nutrition Bachelor of Science in Medical Laboratory Sciences Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Medicine Technology Bachelor of Science in Radiation Sciences

TriNetX Basic Training

Thursday, May 29, 2025, 9:00am to 10:00am

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 what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research. ...