Emily Watson and Cassie Ishaug presented at the Great Lakes Planetarium Assn annual conference in conjunction with Western Alliance Conferences at the Riverfront Museum in Peoria, IL. Emily, 4th year physics/astrophysics major, presented on the work she has been doing in the planetarium with the open source software, OpenSpace. She has been working with OpenSpace developers and American Museum of […]
Sara Schultz, PhD, director of the planetarium presented four talks/workshops during the recent Great Lakes Planetarium Assn (GLPA) annual conference. She presented with two of her students, Cassie Ishaug and Emily Watson. Schultz, as the elected Inclusion & Outreach officer for GLPA, presented on a program to encourage pre-career students interested in the planetarium field as a potential career path […]
MSUM Professor Matt Craig is a core contributor among more than 500 volunteers worldwide to be recognized with the 2025 Lancelot M. Berkeley–New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy. The Berkeley Prize has been awarded annually by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) since 2011. It is supported by a New York Community Trust grant and includes a […]
The MSUM student Astronomy Club and the Fargo-Moorhead Astronomy Club are hosting a sky viewing open house at the MSUM Regional Science Center on Friday, Sep 27 from 7:30 -10:30PM. Lots of telescopes will be set up for you to look at things like Saturn, a blue and gold pair of stars, as many nebulas as your heart desires and […]
Professor Steve Lindaas, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, and Isaac Skalsky, MSUM alum, gave an invited talk at the Physic Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC) and American Association of Physics Teachers(AAPT) joint summer conference. Their talk “Supporting Teachers to Work in High Needs Communities” highlighted methods to create communities of teachers. Belonging to a support community positively impacts teacher persistence and […]