Andrea Ghez, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles, will present the 2026 McDonnell Distinguished Public Lecture, "From the Possibility to the Certainty of a Supermassive Black Hole"

Andrea Ghez, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles, will present the 2026 McDonnell Distinguished Lecture, Colloquium, "Our Galactic Center: A Unique Laboratory for the Physics & Astrophysics of Black Holes"

Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Director, University of California, Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory and Principal Investigator of the NASA Psyche mission, will present the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences 2025 Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lectures, Public Lecture: "The NASA Psyche Mission: First Visit to an Unknown World"

Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Director, University of California, Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory and Principal Investigator of the NASA Psyche mission, will present the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences 2025 Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lectures, Colloquium: "The NASA Psyche Mission: Preparing for the Science of an Unknown Object"