Photo Gallery

February’s Photos (2020)

Guest speaker, Dr. Jodi Cooley from Southern Methodist University, during their lecture “Fantastical Dark Matter and How to Find it.”
Juan Cardenas, Graduate student from UT Arlington, during their lecture “Neural Networks: The Age of Machines.”
Blair Perry, Graduate student from UT Arlington, during their lecture “What snakes (and their genomes) can teach us about regenerative medicine”
Snake handler and audience members holding a boa constrictor.
Speaker, Blair Perry and young audience members petting a Ball Python.

January’s Photos (2020)

Guest Speaker, Dr. Katherine Rawlins, during their lecture “What is the ‘Texas Blazar’ and why are astrophysicists so excited about it?”
Guest Speaker, Sarah Twidal with audience member looking at a moon globe.
Guest Speaker, Sarah Twidal, during their lecture “Moon Moment!”
Moon-like rock from the the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History.

December’s Photos (2019)

Audience members during intermission at Urban Alchemy
Guest Speaker, Hillary Cepress-McLean, during their lecture “Myths and Monsters: How common misconceptions change how we view ancient life.”
Hillary Cepress-McLean’s Fossil display.
UT Arlington’s Graduate student, Ben Smithers, during their lecture “Encryption Never Dies: How to be a Spy.”
UT Arlington’s Graduate student, Nick Byrnes, during their lecture “The Fun Fundamentals of Fungi with a Fun Guy.”
Audience members asking questions to our speakers.

November’s Photos (2019)

Dr. Hanli Liu during her lecture “Can shining light on your head improve your memory?”
Dr. Adam Mitchell during his lecture “The little things that run the world: addressing the importance of insects in the face of an insect apocalypse.”
Dr. Adam Mitchell with audience members
Dr. Adam Mitchell’s insect display case with Texas native insects.
UTA graduate student, Ariel Leslie, during her lecture “A Journey through the Brain: characteristics and Motifs of Seizures.”

September’s Photos (2019)

Returning speaker, Dr. Ben Jones, during his lecture “Qit from Qubit: Quantum information and Computation”
Returning speaker, Sarah Casto, during her lecture “Image or Object: Preserving Photographs”
Dr. Corey Roelke during his lecture “Falconry in the Modern World”

August’s Photos (2019)

All of the photos viewed below for the month of August were taken by audience members. If you attend one of the Tap Talks and take pictures, feel free to post them on any social media.


Lalit Chadul during his lecture “A promising Nanodrug for cancer therapy” from Friday’s event.

Julia Shah during her lecture “EQ: Emotional Intelligence” during this month’s event
Dr. Contessa Ricci during her lecture “The ocean and you.” She actually received her PhD the week of our Tap Talks event, so congratulations!

July’s Photos (2019)

Niyousha Davachi during her lecture “Alien life on Kepler-452b”
Dr. Omomayowa Olawoyin during her lecture “Effects of Multiple Transmission Pathways on Zika Dynamics : A Mathematical Modeling Approach”
Dr. Frank Foss during his lecture ” Drug Discovery and the Potential of Non-psychotripic Cannabinoids”

May’s Photos (2019)

Our very own Leslie Rogers during her lecture “No Nus is Good News”
Dr. Heather Jacobson during her lecture “The Sociology of Making Babies”
Dr. Pawan Thapa during his lecture “Riboflavin, in and outside of the body”
One of the Audience members doing stand up comedy after the Tap Talk Lectures.

April’s Photos (2019)

Julia Shah during her lecture “The Happiness Advantage”
Winter the dog during the lectures.
Dr. Robert Wood during his lecture “UT Arlington’s Racing Program”
Dr. Dan Levine during his lecture “Intuition? Reason? Emotion? How do Humans Make Decisions?”

March’s Photos (2019)

All of the photos viewed below for the month of March were taken by audience members. If you attend one of the Tap Talks and take pictures, feel free to post them on any social media.

Dr. Dan Welling during his lecture “The Relationship Between Space Weather and the Vietnam war”
Alena Aleksandrovna during her lecture “Flourophore Synthesis for Imaging Tags”
Aman Dhaliwal during his lecture “Experience the past and the future in the Now!”

February’s Photos (2019)

All of the photos viewed below for the month of February were taken by audience members. If you attend one of the Tap Talks and take pictures, feel free to post them on any social media and make sure to tag us. They might be featured on this website!

Andrew Brinker during his lecture “Turtles of Tarrant County”
Picture taken by audience member of one of Andrew Brinker’s turtles
Audience during lecture
Leslie Rogers getting help from a dog to pick out raffle tickets
Picture taken by a viewer

January’s Photos (2019)

Sanmitra Pingulkar during his lecture “How to Become a Space Pirate”
Dr. Katherine Woodruff during her lecture “The Strange Spin of the Proton”

December’s Photos (2018)

Dr. Ben Jones during his lecture “Schrodinger’s Cat, Quantum Consciousness, and Decoherence”
Grant Parker during his lecture “Recycling: The World You Never Knew”
Dr. Allegra Leghissa during her lecture “Analysis of Cannibinoids with Gas Chromatography”

October’s Photos (2018)

Dr. Amir Farbin during his lecture “Teaching Computers to Think”
Sarah Casto during her lecture “Art Conservation: The Science of Saving Paper and Photographs”
Blake Watson during his lecture “Looking for the Ghost Particle in the South Pole Ice”
Audience Members during lectures

September’s Photos (2018)

Austin McDonald during his lecture “Asymmetry of Matter to Antimatter in the Universe”
Sarah Moorman during her lecture “Habitability of Exoplanets in Binary Star Systems”
Dr. Laura Mydlarz during her lecture “Status of Coral Reefs”