Events: UT Community

Dr. Francis Collins, the physician, long-time director of the National Institutes of Health and human genome researcher, will discuss exceptional opportunities and challenges in biomedical research.

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm • In Person

Join the astronomy department for a free public viewing at the Painter Hall telescope.

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm • In Person

Celebrate everything feathered, furred, smooth and scaled at Texas Science & Natural History Museum!

10:00 am – 3:00 pm • In Person

The 2026 Great Lecture in Astronomy will be “Galactic Archaeology: The History of Our Cosmic Home” by UT Astronomy Professor Keith Hawkins.

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm • Virtual

Speaker(s): Keith Hawkins

Join the astronomy department for a free public viewing at the Painter Hall telescope.

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm • In Person

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