Events and Seminars

The College of Science welcomes students back to campus for the Spring 2024 semester with hot chocolate, cookies, brownies and coffee! COS student organizations will be on hand with info and swag. 

Join the College of Science as we celebrate Black History Month with a free screening of the 2016 Oscar-nominated film "Hidden Figures." The film tells the story of a team of brilliant female African-American mathematicians who played a vital role at NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.

Join us as we kick off Science Week 2024 with a fun game night for students, featuring bingo, trivia, food and prizes!

Special guest speaker Irene Pepperberg, Ph.D., adjunct research professor at Boston University, and affiliate in the Animal Behavior and Conservation Program at Hunter College, CUNY, will discuss her work with grey parrots. Her talk will be titled "Reflections on the Excitement (and Frustrations) of Science - 45 Years of Research on the Intelligence of Grey Parrots". Refreshments will be served at 3 p.m. with the talk to follow at 3:30 p.m.

Come by for this info-packed session about the Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP), a special program which supports and encourages highly qualified, economically disadvantaged Texas resident students pursuing a medical education. Learn all about eligibility, how to apply, benefits, and more.

Join us for a panel discussion about careers in science fields, featuring College of Science alumni. Hear about their career journeys and bring your questions for a Q&A session!

Join us to cheer on our Health Professions student orgs as they compete in the first ever UTA Ethics Bowl. Each team will answer questions relating to medical ethics and judges will determine who moves on to the final round. Come and go as you have time during the event. Light refreshments will be served.

The Spring Swing fair is an excellent opportunity for students who plan to go into health profession fields to meet with recruiters and admissions staff from medical, dental, pharmacy, optometry, physician assistant, nursing and other health profession schools from across Texas and around the country.

Arlington is in the prime viewing area for the Great North American Eclipse (total solar eclipse) which will occur on the morning through early afternoon of April 8, and UTA and the Planetarium will be hosting a watch party! This event is expected to draw visitors to the D-FW Metroplex from across the state and around the country. The Planetarium plans several other events in the days preceding the eclipse; see the full events schedule here.

The College of Science's annual Discover Student Research Symposium is a celebration of the research excellence of our students and provides an opportunity for students to showcase their research projects in poster format. A period of online judging by a panel of faculty and alumni judges is followed by a day of in-person poster displays and presentations by the finalists on April 19, culminating with an awards presentation. See full details at the Discover website here.