Events

Thursday, September 3 | 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Join the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center’s lifesaving effort through blood donation. Your donated blood can help patients regain strength during cancer treatments, surgeries, and traumatic injuries.

Saturday, September 5 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Join UTMB’s Institute for Translational Sciences, in collaboration with the Gulf Coast Center for Precision Environmental Health and the Baylor-Rice Superfund Research Program, for a compelling conversation on “Nano & Microplastics: Tiny Plastics, Bigger Impacts!”

Sunday, September 6 | 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
A powerful live performance by Laura Spector that blends storytelling, original music, projected images, and voices from healthcare to explore the realities of burnout.

Selected Saturdays | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm or 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Get in touch with your inner scientist and dissect an organ under expert guidance from a doctor and a museum science educator. Explore the wonders of organ anatomy like never before and learn the ways to keep a healthy body.

Sunday, November 22 | 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Connect with yourself and others through music, words, and creativity. This event blends reflective writing, curated jazz, light crafting, and intentional dialogue—offering a welcoming space to slow down, listen inward, and explore presence, emotion, identity, and joy.

Thursday, December 10 | 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Join Dr. Asha Davidson for shared table conversations about food, body, and worth.
This event is free to attend with an RSVP.

Thursdays | 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Join us every Thursday for a live organ dissection and a fun-filled family game of trivia with a wide range of entertaining questions for all ages. Get your pulse or neurons stimulated with this live experience in the McGovern Theater.