Upcoming Events

PTRS Educational Summit

Our 2026 PTRS Educational Summit "From Mechanobiology to Movement: Bridging Science, Practice, and Athletic Performance" is scheduled for Friday, September 18th. 

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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.

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College of Medicine Events

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ACB Seminar Series - Joy James

Wednesday, October 14, 2026 9:30am to 10:30am
Bowen Science Building

Joy James, a Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Student in Sam Stephen's Lab will present a seminar titled "Proinflammatory Cytokines Induce Golgi Remodeling In Pancreatic Β-cells Beyond Inos-no Signaling."

REDCap MyCap Training

Wednesday, October 14, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

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 here:  https:/...

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Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Workshop, Cobey Donelson

Wednesday, October 14, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Bowen Science Building

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, October 15, 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...

Degowin Blood Drive at Medical Center University

Thursday, October 15, 2026 10:00am to 3:00pm
General Hospital
The DeGowin Blood Center is hosting a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday October 15th 2026 at the Fountain Lobby in the University Medical Center.