Previous Talks
Here you can discover some of the previous speakers for Science Under the Stars without having to search through the archives!
- March 26, 2013 | Myrmecologist Dr. Mark Moffett | Life Among the Ants
- February 14, 2013 | UT Grad Student Victoria Huang | Sex in the Animal Kingdom
- December 13, 2012 | UT Grad Student Michael Gully-Santiago | The Science and Discovery of Stars, Sub-Stars, and Planets!
- November 8, 2012 | UT Grad Student Chintan Modi | Vaccine Development and Fluorescence
- October 11, 2012 | UT Grad Student Patrick Stinson | How Animals Adapt to Living Around Humans
- September 13, 2012 | UT Grad Student Stavana Strutz | The Wild Wild West: West Nile and Vector-borne Disease in Texas
- May 10, 2012 | O’Henry Middle School Science Teacher Michelle Brown | Adventures in Science at the Bottom of the World
- April 12, 2012 | UT Grad Student Jeanine Abrams McLean | Contagion: How Emerging Infectious Diseases Impact Amphibian Population Declines
- March 8, 2012 | UT Grad Student Genevieve Smith | Conflict Avoidance: How NOT Competing Can Be The Ticket to Success!
- February 9, 2012 | UT Grad Student Jacob Soule | Partners in Pollination
- December 8, 2011 | UT Grad Student Emily J. McTavish | Journey to the New World: The Global History of Texas Longhorn Cattle
- November 10, 2011 | UT Grad Student Nikhil Advani | The Biological Impacts of Climate Change: Insights from Butterflies!
- October 13, 2011 | UT Grad Student Patricia Salerno | The Truths & Myths Behind the Lost World of South America
- April 14, 2011 | UT Grad Student Nichole Bennett | Sex, Bugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll: Insects In Music
- March 10, 2011 | UT Grad Students Sarah Davies & Carly Kenkel | Reef-Building Corals
- February 14, 2011 | UT Undergraduate Emily Royall | Biomimicry
- December 9, 2010 | UT Grad Student Jesse Lasky | Biodiversity, Oddities and Conservation of Southeast Asian Tropical Forests
- November 11, 2010 | UT Grad Student Chad Smith | Race to Egg: How Sperm Competition Drives the Evolution of the Sexes
- October 14, 2010 | UT Grad Student Laura Dugan | Aliens Among Us: Invasive Species – What are they, what do they do and what can we do about them?
- April 14, 2010 | UT Grad Student Taylor Sultan Quedensley | Lichenized-fungi of Texas: Biology, Ecology, and Distribution of a Diverse Group of Understudied Organisms
- March 10, 2010 | UT Professor Larry Gilbert | Organisms across a dynamic landscape: Reflections on the natural and unnatural history of Central and Southern Texas
- February 10, 2010 | UT Grad Student Samuel V. Scarpino | Influenza Dynamics and Vaccination in Texas
- December 9, 2009 | UT Grad Student Barrett Klein | SLEEP and the plight of a weary honey bee
- November 11, 2009 | UT Grad Student Hayley Gillespie | Texas Salamander Extravaganza
- October 14, 2009 | Curator of Entomology John Abbott | The Art and Science of High-speed Flash Photography
- May 6, 2009 | UT Grad Student Evan Economo | The Ways of the Ant
- April 22, 2009 | UT Grad Student Eben Gering | Sexual conflict and female revolution in damselflies
- April 8, 2009 | UT Professor Sahotra Sarkar | The Balcones Canyonlands
- March 25, 2009 | UT Assistant Professor Misha Matz | Deep Sea Exploration
- March 11, 2009 | UT Grad Student Eric Miller | Seeing it as it happens: Witnessing, controlling, and understanding evolution
- February 25, 2009 | UT Professor Mike Singer | Humans, from the Perspective of a Californian Butterfly





