2026 College of Pharmacy Doctor of Pharmacy Commencement Ceremony
Join us as we celebrate the Class of 2026 PharmD graduates! Doors will open one hour prior to ceremony start. No tickets required.
Distinguished Commencement Speaker:
Jeffrey Reist, ’82 BSPh, PharmD, BCPS
Associate Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa College of Pharmacy
Event will be livestreamed here:
https://commencement.uiowa.edu/ceremony/spring-2026/2026-college-pharmacy-doctor-pharmacy-commencement-ceremony
College of Pharmacy PSET Thesis Seminar: Rachel Crawford
The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics in the College of Pharmacy will host a thesis seminar presented by Human Toxicology PhD Candidate Rachel Crawford.
Thesis Title: "Monoamine Oxidase in Heart Disease: A Link Between Sympathetic Tone, Oxidative Stress, and Cardiac Dysfunction."
All are welcome to attend.
Celebrating International Student Success
College of Pharmacy PSET Seminar Series: Robin Bogner, PhD
The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics (PSET) in the College of Pharmacy will host a seminar presented by:
Robin Bogner, PhD
Director, Kildsig Center for Pharmaceutical Processing Research (CPPR)
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut
Seminar Title: "Emerging Technology to Enhance the Stabilization of Therapeutics by Lyophilization"
All are welcome to attend. No pre-registration required.
College of Pharmacy PSET Seminar Series: Eric Sundberg, PhD
The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics (PSET) in the College of Pharmacy will host a seminar presented by:
Eric Sundberg, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Biochemistry
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia
All are welcome to attend. No pre-registration required.
2026 MIKIW Medicinal Chemistry Conference at the UI College of Pharmacy
The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Iowa, will host the 63rd Annual Medicinal Chemistry Meeting-in-miniature.
MIKIW is the longest-running and largest regional medicinal chemistry conference in the United States. The meeting integrates over 200 graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty members from the Universities of Minnesota, Illinois at Chicago, Kansas, Iowa and Wisconsin. The two-day, multidisciplinary conference exposes...