Smartphones provide a variety of tools that allow precise measurements, allowing anyone to explore interesting phenomena in the world around them. In this talk, we discuss two explorations using smartphone sensors: how the pressure inside a bubble changes with radius, and how artificial gravity on a rotating space station is different from gravity on earth. There will be snacks on […]
Kick off your Fridays with free snacks and short talks on everything from biosciences and chemistry to math and physics, led by students, faculty, and community members. Snacks + Science = a proven formula. 2:30-3:50 p.m. Fridays Jan. 16 – Introduction to Dragon STEMinar and what makes a good talkJan. 23 – Speaker Adam Goyt, professor of mathematicsJan. 30 – Speaker Sumali […]
Minnesota State Moorhead senior quarterback Jack Strand recently turned a national honor into a meaningful investment in the university. Strand was selected as one of 16 national finalists for the William V. Campbell Trophy, widely recognized as the highest academic and athletic award in college football across all divisions. As part of that recognition, finalists receive a postgraduate scholarship and […]
Join the Minnesota State Moorhead Astronomy Club and the FM Astronomy Club tonight in Parking lot R3 (next to the Paseka Center for Business) to see some stellar sights through telescopes! You will be able to see the planet Saturn, star clusters and nebulae in our Milky Way galaxy and even other galaixes millions of light years away. Free and […]
Dr. Steve Lindaas, Physics and Astronomy, and Dr. Alison Wallace, Biosciences, attended the National Science Teachers Association conference in Minneapolis last week with seven MSUM graduates currently teaching middle and high school science, including Isaac Skalsky, physics and chemistry education; Erick Hernandez, physics education; and Katie Olson, Jake Pundsack, Anneliese Johnson, Briana Kowalke, and Whitney Shegrud, all life science education […]