Events and Seminars

Upcoming Events

11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 15
Chemistry & Physics Building (CPB) atrium lobby

The College of Science presents our annual welcome back to campus event as part of Maverick Stampede for Spring 2025. We'll have free hot chocolate, coffee, and sweet treats, plus COS swag, and a student organization fair featuring many of our science student orgs.

4 p.m. Tuesday, February 11
Science & Engineering Innovation & Research (SEIR) Building 298

The College of Science welcomes Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Ph.D., professor of biogeochemistry and Felasco Chair in Earth Sciences and Geology at the University of California, Merced. Her talk will be titled "From Roots to Reach: One Scientist's Quest to Understand Soils, Confront Climate Change, and Open Doors in STEM." Dr. Berhe was director of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science from May 2022 to March 2024, and was the first person of color to lead the office. Her research is broadly focused on soil science and global change science. Her research themes include the effect of climate changes (specifically rainfall and temperature) on storage and stabilization of soil organic matter; nano-scale biogeochemistry of iron oxides; erosion and terrestrial carbon sequestration; and political ecology of land degradation and ownership. A reception will be held preceding the talk at 3:30 p.m.

Monday, February 24 
Trivia Challenge

2-3 pm | UC Bluebonnet Ballroom

Join us for a fun trivia contest! Win prizes and compete against students visiting from the UTA-Fort Worth Regional Science & Engineering Fair. Download the Kahoot app to play.
 
Monday, February 24 
UTA-FWRSEF Poster Exhibition

3-7 pm | College Park Center

Come and see the amazing research projects done by inspiring young scientists from schools in Tarrant County and the surrounding region at the UTA-Fort Worth Regional Science & Engineering Fair  
 
Tuesday, February 25
UTeach Info Session

12-1 pm | Science Hall 103

Greg Hale, UTeach Arlington co-director, presents "What Is UTeach, and Why Will They Give Me $100?" Learn all about the UTeach teacher preparatory program and how to get paid just for trying it out!
 
Tuesday, February 25
JAMP Info Session

5-6 pm | Science Hall 121

Thinking about medical school? Come by this informative session on the Joint Admission Medical Program, hosted by Greg Hale, JAMP faculty director
 
Wednesday, February 26
Lunch Talk: Dylan Parks

12-1 pm | SEIR 298

Join us for a lunch talk by Dylan Parks, UTA assistant professor of biology. His talk will be titled "Integrating Academia and Industry through Brewing and Fermentation Science". Parks is the creator and director of UTA's Brewing and Fermentation Science Certificate program. Free food and "mocktails" will be served.
 
Thursday, February 27 
Free Planetarium Show

3-4 pm | UTA Planetarium

Come check out a free Planetarium show, Invaders of Mars! Explore the Martian surface through the eyes of various spacecraft "invaders" from Earth. Raffle prizes before and after the show!
 
Friday, February 28
UTA Calculus Bowl

12:30 pm | UH 108

The Department of Mathematics hosts the 23rd Calculus Bowl. The event features teams of area high school students competing in a quiz bowl format to answer a series of difficult calculus questions and claim the coveted championship trophy!
12-2:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 9
UC Rio Grande Ballroom

The Spring Swing Health Professions Fair offers students a chance to meet and talk to admissions staff, directors and deans from health professions schools, colleges and programs. Represented programs include medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, optometry, physician assistant, chiropractic, nursing, public health, military medicine, test prep services, and more.

10 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, April 18
Chemistry & Physics Building (CPB) and Planetarium

The College of Science's annual Discover Student Research Symposium features the amazing research being done by our undergraduate and graduate students. The event is a hybrid of online poster viewing followed by a live exhibition of posters in CPB and a showcase of the best of undergraduate and graduate posters in the UTA Planetarium, with awards going to the top entries.

SEMINAR SERIES

Each semester, the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry hosts a weekly Seminar Series featuring a guest speaker discussing a topic related to their research. Seminars are held each Friday from 3-4 p.m. in W.A. Baker Chemistry Research Building (CRB) Room 114 unless otherwise noted. Refreshments will be served in CRB Room 112 at 2:45 p.m. Dr. Junha Jeon is the faculty coordinator of the series.

Date Speaker Email Title Faculty Host
Jan 17 NO SEMINAR
Jan 24 Jongyun Heo jheo@uta.edu  A trip to the redox regulation of small GTPases: errors, corrections, and advances Jeon
Jan 31 Susan Latturner slatturner@fsu.edu   Macaluso
Feb 7 Hanno zurLoye (Univ South Carolina) zurloye@mailbox.sc.edu  
Macaluso
Feb 14 Dr. Hori Pada Sarker (Stanford University) horipada@stanford.edu  Towards a Renewable Future: Computational Design of Energy Materials  Rajeshwar
Feb 21 David Lynn  dlynn2@emory.edu 
 He Dong
Feb 28 Susan Richardson  RICHA545@mailbox.sc.edu  Improving Drinking Water Safety: Addressing New Impacts and Identifying Important Toxicity Drivers  Shelor
Mar 7 James K. McCusker Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University  jkm@chemistry.msu.edu    The Photophysics and Photochemistry of First-row Transition Metal Complexes: Quantum Coherence, the Marcus Inverted Region, and Applications in Excited-state Chemistry MacDonnell/ McFarland
Mar 14 SPRING BREAK 

Mar 21

Si Wu 
University of Alabama

swu49@ua.edu  TBD Saiful
Mar 28

Jiali Gao
(University of Minnesota)

jiali@jialigao.org TBD  Nam
Apr 4 Dr. Ghanashyam Acharya (Baylor College of Medicine) gacharya@bcm.edu    Mandal
Apr 11 Kangsang Lee  k.lee@ucf.edu   TBD Jeon 
Apr 18 Susan (Sue) Lunte, University of Kansas  slunte@ku.edu      Dasgupta
Apr 25 Robert Dunn, 
University of Kansas
rdunn@ku.edu    TBD Shelor 
May 2   FINAL EXAMS
May 9   AWARDS CEREMONY/COOKOUT/COMMENCEMENT