Orlando will host its first Taste of Science Festival on April 22-23 as part of an annual national event geared at encouraging public discourse about science and its impact on the community.

Many scientists will speak about a range of topics, including several members of the UCF community during the festival at two locations from 6 to 8 p.m.

Monday, April 22

The Public House, 12046 Collegiate Way

• UCF Physics Professor Joshua Colwell: How Experiments Advance Space Exploration
• Teacher in Residence at UCF Adam LaMee: Coding, Higgs Boson, Dark Matter and Other Cool Sciences
• UCF History Associate Professor Amy Foster: Women in Space

Tuesday, April 23

Grain & The Grape, 1110 Virginia Dr.

• UCF Nanotechnology Associate Professor Debashis Chanda: Rapid Detector for Dopamine and Other Advances in Nanotechnology
• UCF Assistant director of assignments Lynell Hodge: What Cognitive Science Teaches Us about Trauma
• UCF alumnus and city of Orlando director of sustainability Chris Castro: Climate Change and Accelerating the Clean Energy Economy

The public is invited. Tickets at $5 and information are available at tasteofscience.org/orlando.

The Florida Consortium of Metropolitan Research Universities – a collaboration between UCF, Florida International University and the University of South Florida – is a sponsor of the Taste of Science events in Florida.