Events: Graduate Students & Postdocs

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Jan

24

2025

Careers, Learning and Development

Sign-up Deadline for STEM Muse Mentorship Network

STEM Muse is a mentorship network designed to support the professional development of women in STEM fields and open for all current UT College of Natural Sciences students, grad students, faculty and research staff.

11:59 pm Virtual

Feb

4

2025

Public Event

Mindful Sips: Neuroscience of Alcohol Use Disorder, Part 1

Part of a series of discussions by the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research about the neuroscientific, genetic and social aspects of alcohol drinking and the development of Alcohol Use Disorder.

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm In Person

Speaker(s): Riccardo Barchiesi, Marion Friske, and Caitlin Orsini

Feb

13

2025

Research Learning

CMC in the Therapeutic Development Process with Olga Paley of Takeda

Texas Biologics presents industry experts who are leading biotech and biologic therapy R&D and commercialization.

11:00 am – 12:00 pm In Person

Speaker(s): Olga Paley

Feb

21

2025

Public Event

Growing a Healthy Future in School Gardens

Discover how small plots of schoolyard can cultivate not just food but also healthier, happier children and positive home and learning environments. Food and giveaways from Sprouts, sponsor of school gardens and associated research, will be provided.

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm In Person

Feb

25

2025

Public Event

The Climate-Driven Home Insurance Crisis: A PT2050 Discussion

Homeownership has never looked like this. Get the scoop on why from an investigative reporter who looked into how shifts in Texas weather are changing the stakes. This event is part of the UT Planet Texas 2050 Symposium.

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm In Person

Feb

25

2025

Public Event

Mindful Sips: Neuroscience of Alcohol Use Disorder, Part 2

Part of a series of discussions by the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research about the neuroscientific, genetic and social aspects of alcohol drinking and the development of Alcohol Use Disorder.

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm In Person

Speaker(s): Laura Ferguson and Rajesh Miranda

Feb

25

2025

Public Event

Shattering Barriers with a Laser Focus: Three World-Changing Women in Physics

Join us for an inspiring and insightful event featuring Donna Strickland, 2018 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Kim Budil, Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Elaine Li, co-director of the Texas Quantum Institute.

5:30 pm – 6:45 pm In Person

Feb

26

2025

Public Event

If AI Can Write, Why Should We?

Join the award-winning journalist Vauhini Vara for a talk on the delicate intersection of human expression and living in our artificial intelligence age, where rapidly evolving AI technologies may transform how we relate with one another.

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm In Person

Feb

27

2025

Public Event

Memory Matters: Learning Throughout the Lifespan

Discover how we learn across the lifespan in a lively panel discussion with neuroscientists and enjoy interactive hands-on demos, brought to you by the Center for Learning and Memory. This event pairs with Musical Memories.

5:30 pm – 8:30 pm In Person

Feb

28

2025

Public Event

The Aging Brain & Digital Technologies

Hear an in-depth research talk probing a future with digital cognitive prosthetics: smart phones used to aid in regaining memories or personal-assistant apps to supplement the work of caregivers.

11:30 am – 1:00 pm Hybrid