Graduate Student Senate (GSS) is comprised of graduate students, for graduate students.

The Graduate Student Senate is the primary representative, administrative, and service organization for graduate students at the University of Iowa and the senators of GSS are the core of the graduate student voice on campus. The Graduate Student Senate also functions as a conduit for information between the Graduate College and the general graduate student population.

Involvement in GSS is a great way to connect with students across campus, connect with leaders in the Graduate College, and make your voices heard. Senators attend monthly general assembly meetings and work with committees to host events for graduate students. Want to get involved? Email us at grad-senate@uiowa.edu

Upcoming GSS Events

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, July 16, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

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:

Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with vlookup()

Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering

Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables

Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables

Transforming unusable data to a usable format...

SEES Grad Defense: Jalissa Pirro - Masters Defense - "Quantifying Early-Season Miscanthus × giganteus Spatiotemporal Patterns Using High-Resolution UAS LIDAR"

Friday, July 17, 2026 9:00am
University of Iowa Main Library

LIB 3083

The general audience will be invited to leave after the presentation and Q & A session.

Title: Quantifying Early-Season Miscanthus × giganteus Spatiotemporal Patterns Using High-Resolution UAS LIDAR

Abstract: Perennial bioenergy crops are increasingly important for sustainable biomass production, with Miscanthus x giganteus (M×g) standing out for its high yield potential. Unlike annual row crops, perennials regrow each year from belowground rhizomes and spread unevenly across a field...

SEES Grad Defense: Joshua Laird - PhD Defense - "Ordovician trilobite communities: End-Ordovician mass extinction beta diversity collapse, habitat occupancy dynamics, and insights from the Eleanor River Formation (Floian) fauna of Canada"

Friday, July 17, 2026 10:00am
Trowbridge Hall

7/17: 10:00AM - 1PM, 231 TH (Trowbridge Hall)

Title: Ordovician trilobite communities: End-Ordovician mass extinction beta diversity collapse, habitat occupancy dynamics, and insights from the Eleanor River Formation (Floian) fauna of Canada

Abstract: Trilobites (extinct marine arthropods) reached peak diversity during the Ordovician, when the group was divided into the Ibex and Whiterock evolutionary faunas. During the Early to early-Middle Ordovician, species of these faunas occupied habitats...

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