Past Events

UT Staff are invited to join the UT Staff Toastmasters Club to practice and improve your public speaking and leadership skills, self-confidence, and career opportunities in a very supportive environment while having fun and helping each other grow. Please bring your lunch and join us!

This year's Mitchell Sustainability Symposium will continue its focus on the intersection of sustainability and student education on UT Austin’s campus and beyond. We’ll look into the state of sustainability at UT Austin through a series of panel discussions, lectures, and student presentations. Dr. Adam Met, will provide the lunchtime keynote address.

Master the art of securing research funding with a hands-on workshop on Pivot database features—from creating profiles and exhaustive search strategies to discovering collaborators.

This virtual Data & Donuts workshop will introduce attendees to basic concepts and techniques for working with text as data, focusing on how open source software can be used to implement computational approaches for understanding and examining text. A practical, hands-on exercise using Python will follow the introductory talk.

In this virtual AI & Research workshop, we will investigate the utility of using AI to generate research reports. We will provide an overview of tools, time for hands-on interaction, and a discussion on the pros and cons of these tools.

Explore Austin-area museums for free! The 28th Annual Austin Museum Day is a free celebration of art, culture, history, music, nature, and science. Over thirty museums in the greater Austin area will welcome visitors with special programming including guided and self-guided exhibition tours, activities, and more for visitors of all ages.

The talk presents a draft chapter from my second book on the lager beer revolution in the United States. Brewing is one of the oldest and most widely used technologies. Many of its key discoveries took decades, some even hundreds of years.

Join your campus community for a special exhibition preview of Live from New York: The Lorne Michaels Collection on Friday, September 19, from 10 am to 2 pm. Co-sponsored by the Moody College of Communication, the preview will offer a first look at the exhibition before its public opening and is open to UT students, faculty, staff, and Texas Exes. The event kicks off with a grand opening at 10 am,with coffee and snacks in the plaza!

Explore the “middle place” of healing with Mallary Tenore Tarpley as she shares her courageous and reflective memoir, Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery, followed by a thoughtful discussion led by psychologist Dr. Allison Chase.

Join a virtual session exploring how new 2025 federal public access mandates will reshape research sharing—covering expanded requirements for publications, data, and software, with guidance on resources available at UT Austin to help you stay compliant.