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Graduate colleges and programs among the top 25 in the nation, 2026 U.S. News & World Report

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National winners of the CGS/University Microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation Award

Events

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Spence Lecture: Charan Ranganath, PhD

Thursday, September 17, 2026 12:30pm to 1:50pm
Psychological and Brain Sciences Building
The Spence Lecture Series honors the legacy of Kenneth W. Spence, prominent learning theorist and chair of the department from 1942-1964. This series, which is supported by the Iowa Neuroscience Institute, brings leaders in the field of behavioral neuroscience to our campus each year.

The Ethics of Storytelling: Paige Towers’ 'What They Stole'

Thursday, September 17, 2026 4:00pm
Shambaugh House


As writers, how do we tell stories that aren't our own? What roadblocks must we navigate, and how do editors/publishers help us along the way? Join UI Press, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the International Writing Program, and the Office of Writing and Communication for a reading and discussion about these topics and more with author Paige Towers. Allison Means (associate director of UI Press), and Meenakshi Durham (writer, scholar, and faculty member at UI).

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CS Colloquium - "Learning Sparse Dependence Structure in Complex-Valued Tensor Data"

Friday, September 18, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
Complex-valued tensor data arise in signal processing and neuroscience. Learn more about the method using local field potential recordings, where sparse separable factor analysis (SSFA) captures dependence across brain region, frequency, and time and supports reconstruction of missing signals
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