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Visualizing Science

All about Visualizing Science Art Shown at the Festival

Festival-goers in 2026 got to see winners of the annual College of Natural Sciences science and art contest at many events.

Colors and shapes swirl like paint within a star-shaped cell found in the brain and spinal cord

KVUE

UT Austin hosts 25th annual STEM Girl Day

KVUE reported on the thousands of students who met at the University of Texas for STEM Girl Day, a featured Texas Science Festival event.

Museum Girl Day

KXAN

UT Austin unveils electronic tattoos and soft robot skin designed to transform aging

Research into technology, robotics and healthy aging are the focus for a Texas Science Festival panel event.

Moonshot Ideas

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.