Challenge is something that everyone experiences, but the ways we react are unique. How do you view a challenge? Can you think of a time when you faced adversity and looked at it from a different perspective? We encourage you to speak up and share your story! MSUM will host the 5th annual Speak Up on February 21, 2023. The […]
Department of Physics and Astronomy students Mara DeRung, Tanner Weyer, and Emily Watson presented an electronic poster at the 111th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers. They presented the work they did this past summer automating MSUM’s Paul P. Feder Observatory and observing exoplanets and variable stars. The students are shown below with AAVSO Executive Director […]
Economic Society members, Erin Summerbell, Isabel Olson, Ansel Anderson, Jaden Oestern, and Jonas Baune, attended the Minnesota Economic Association Conference on October 14, 2022 at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. The research conference focused on economic issues related to poverty and discrimination such as rent control programs and gender wage gaps. Members also visited MSUM Economics alumnus, Rebecca Weir, […]
Six MSUM students volunteered at the 10th annual Dakota Nights astronomy festival at Theodore Roosevelt National Park Sep 16-18, 2022. They set up several telescope for evening star viewing and gave visual tours of the constellations using laser pointers. Five of the students, Alex Niemi, Emily Watson, Izzy DiOrio, Mara DeRung, and Tanner Weyer, have majors in the Department of […]
MSUM students Mara DeRung and Emily Watson submitted observations of an exoplanet transit to NASA’s TESS mission as part of the ground follow-up group. A transit occurs when a planet orbiting another star passes in front of the star, briefly dimming its light. The green line in the graph below shows the tiny dip in brightness of the star as […]