Events: UT Community

A conversation about how brains have evolved protection against poisons (or not) with Dr. Harold Zakon, Professor of Neuroscience at UT Austin.

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm • In Person

Speaker(s): Harold Zakon

Musical Memories offers a free, mid-day musical arts break for the UT community, featuring Butler Opera Center Musicians singing arias from Handel’s opera “Alcina.”

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm • In Person

Enjoy FREE museum admission all day during H-E-B Free Fourth Sundays, held the fourth Sunday of every month.

1:00 pm – 5:00 pm • In Person

Project director Pablo Kuri will discuss how OriGen was developed, its significance, its current state and future directions.

10:00 am – 11:00 am • In Person

Speaker(s): Pablo Kuri

Join the Dean’s Scholars for a special visit with neurobiologist and chemistry Nobel Laureate Dr. Martin Chalfie.

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm • In Person

The day of the University-wide Honors Day, the College of Natural Sciences holds a pre-celebration of our fantastic CNS honors students at the CNS Scholars Day Reception.

12:30 pm – 2:30 pm • In Person

Join guest speaker Professor Sir Cato T. Laurencin, MD, Ph.D., KCSL, for his distinguished lecture on regenerative engineering, followed by a reception.

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm • In Person

Speaker(s): Professor Sir Cato T. Laurencin

Dr. Keith Klugman, Director of the Pneumonia Program at the Gates Foundation, will speak on “Novel Vaccines to Further Reduce Pneumonia Mortality in Children.”

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm • Hybrid

Speaker(s): Keith Klugman

Dr. Vicky Kalogera, the Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University will give the 2026 Weinberg Memorial Lecture.

4:00 pm • In Person

Speaker(s): Vicky Kalogera

Save the date for our 25th Anniversary of the Undergraduate Research Forum on April 17, 2026! Registration will open for the Forum in January 2026.

12:00 pm – 4:30 pm