Speakerships
Spiker Memorial Lecture Series
A lecture series that honors the legacy of Professor Charles C. Spiker by bringing leaders in the field of developmental psychology to our department and campus.
Spence Lecture Series
A lecture series that honors the legacy of Professor Kenneth W. Spence by bringing leaders in the field of behavioral neuroscience to our department and campus.
Upcoming events
Events
Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Avery Van De Water
Wednesday, September 9, 2026 1:00pm
Avery Van De Water is a PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. Their research has been conducted in Dorit Kliemann's laboratory.
If you are unable to attend in person, please consider showing your support and attending via Zoom. Please email britt-hokanson@uiowa.edu for the zoom link.
Biology Seminar: The Innate-to-Adaptive Immune Transition Driving Vision Loss After Blast-mediated Traumatic Brain Injury
Friday, September 11, 2026 3:30pm
Matthew Harper, Ph.D., an Associate Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Iowa, will be giving a seminar in Room 101, BBE, on Friday, September 11 at 3:30 P.M.
Spence Lecture: Charan Ranganath, PhD
Thursday, September 17, 2026 12:30pm to 1:50pm
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.
Andrew Goldman: "'Hearing As': Neural Correlates of Interpretation in Studies of Harmonic Prediction"
Friday, October 2, 2026 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Andrew Goldman presents two neuroscientific experiments that investigate how listeners intentionally modulate their expectations based on how they are prompted to interpret musical stimuli
Spiker Lecture: Karen Adolph, Ph.D.
Thursday, October 22, 2026 12:30pm to 1:50pm
The Spiker Memorial Lecture honors Charles W. Spiker's influential research and educational leadership in the field of experimental child psychology. Following Spiker's death in 1993, his students and colleagues endowed this memorial lectureship to honor all that he stood for. Its purpose is to bring to Iowa today's outstanding minds in developmental psychology.