News

KXAN

This Texas winery uses ‘X-Ray’ tech for wine — thanks to UT student scientists

KXAN covered the Celebration of Wine and Science at the 2026 Texas Science Festival, highlighting research involving students.

Celebration of wine and science

Long Center

Mid-Week Intermission Friend Edition: Reel Science

Melissa Kemp in a Q&A talks Reel Science at the festival, taking audiences below the surface of Earth on March 4.

Reel Science Underland

Announcements

Texas Science Festival Invites Community to Partake in the Joys of Discovery

From a talk-show themed night with science comedy to a campus-wide day for hands-on STEM exploration, the 2026 Texas Science Festival offers something for everyone.

Evolution of Evolution

Texas Connect

Texas Science Festival bridges research and community

With the 2025 Texas Science Festival now in the books, a UT publication recaps some of the highlights.

A person standing behind a table with different models of brains points out information for an onlooker.

Visualizing Science

Visualizing Science Winners Displayed at Texas Science Festival

Winning entries to the 2025 Visualizing Science competition were on display at the Texas Science Festival. See the full interactive gallery here.

Swirling shapes in shades of purple evoke ghostly hills, nodes and shadows.

KXAN

Black holes suck public into ‘amazing discoveries’ at Texas Science Festival

KXAN reported on a Texas Science Festival-timed launch of a new series with the Long Center pairing science documentaries with expert talks.

A black hole represented in a sea of cosmic brightness, rung with light and gases, next to a Texas Science Festival graphic.

Austin American-Statesman

UT to host STEM Girl Day and Texas Science Festival

The Austin American-Statesman reported STEM Girl Day is a featured part of UT's 2025 Texas Science Festival, a nearly two-week-long series.

Volunteer college students in STEM Girl Day shirts demo a device of legos with robotic overtones to a pair of school-aged girls.

Features

Lessons from the EdEN Lab and School Gardens at the Texas Science Festival

At The University of Texas at Austin, nutrition experts like Jaimie Davis are hard at work on projects that benefit students of all ages.

A woman hands a child seeds in a fenced in garden area next to a flowering plant

Fox 7 Austin

University of Texas Science Festival Returns

Many events will draw people to campus for the two-week Texas Science Festival, including the largest event: STEM Girl Day.

About a dozen children cheer as a fountain of soda shoots up out of a soda bottle in a scientific demo.

Features

Quantum Science and Technology Turn 100

Come to events celebrating the latest discoveries in quantum research, plus a century of quantum science and technology.

Seven pegs of differing colors sit in a circle