Latest Departmental News

Spring 2025 Iowa DPT Q&A Sessions
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Spring 2025 Question & Answer Sessions for the University of Iowa Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) Program
Q&A: Jacob Norton, Doctor of Physical Therapy graduate
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Q&A: Alex Lewis, Doctor of Physical Therapy graduate
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Upcoming Events
PTRS Educational Summit
Mark your calendars for our 2025 PTRS Educational Summit scheduled for October 11, 2025.
UI Physical Therapy Apparel Order
The Physical Therapy Student Organization's (PTSO) spring apparel order is now closed. If you wish to be put on the mailing list for the fall order, please email us at physical-therapy@uiowa.edu.
Alumni Newsletters
The alumni newsletters provide an opportunity for us to share many of the accomplishments of previous classmates, faculty, and staff from the UI Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Sciences Community at Iowa. These newsletters will go out annually to keep you informed of the new developments and future plans within the department.
College of Medicine Events

Topics in Human Genetics
Monday, June 16, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
The course is open to individuals wishing to learn more about current topics in Human Genetics who meet the following criteria; individuals must have completed a course in genetics and are currently in a genetics lab, or have past genetics research experience. Genetics educators are also welcome to attend the course.The objective of the course is to provide persons familiar with genetics a broad overview of gene identification, molecular genetics, complex disease, next generation sequencing...
REDCap Advanced Training
Tuesday, June 17, 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...

Dissertation Seminar: Break-induced Replication: Two Roles in Genome Instability
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 9:00am
Kendra Musmaker, a PhD candidate in the Integrated Biology (iBio) Graduate Program, will be defending her dissertation on Wednesday, June 18, at 9:00am CDT in Room 106, Biology Building East (BBE), and via Zoom (see attached flyer for the Zoom link). Kendra’s mentor is Anna Malkova, former Roy J. Carver Professor of Biology at the University and Iowa and current Professor of Biochemistry and Structural Biology at UT Health San Antonio. The seminar is open to the public to attend.
REDCap MyCap Training
Wednesday, June 18, 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:
Creating participants
Creating tasks and schedules
Active tasks and their unique data output
Direct messages and announcements
This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of the MyCap mobile app for REDCap.
Register by clicking the virtual event link above or by going...

Hardin Open Workshops - PubMed (Zoom)
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 1:00pm to 2:00pm
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:Class will be taught via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes before the class time.