Friday, Aug. 23 | 8:30-11 p.m. | Regional Science Center The Department of Physics and Astronomy, in conjunction with the MSUM Planetarium, Regional Science Center and the FM Astronomy Club, is holding a free public astronomy night on Friday, Aug. 23. Come check out the planets Jupiter and Saturn, and get a view of our Milky Way galaxy. The current […]
Steve Lindaas, Physics and Astronomy, attended the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) summer conference last week. He presented a workshop, “Demo Kit in a Box: Sound and Wave” and presided over the “Physics and Society: Climate Change” session that he had organized. Both the workshop and session were well attended and generated good discussions amongst participants. In addition to […]
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) hosted the 2019 Noyce Summit: The Role of Teacher Preparation Programs in STEM Teacher Retention in High-Need School Districts in Washington DC July 10-12. In attendance were Steve Lindaas, Physics and Astronomy, and Alison Wallace, Biosciences, co-principal investigators with Tim Harms, Mathematics, for MSUM’s Noyce […]
Thursday, May 2 | 7 p.m. | Langseth Hall 104
Friday, April 12 | 3-4 p.m. | Hagen 325 Senior Physics majors Samuel Holen and Andrew Louwagie Gordon will be presenting their Senior Project in a talk on Friday, April 12 at 3 p.m. in Hagen Hall 325. Mr. Holen will be talking about his senior project “Modelling an Infinite Slot Potential.” This will be followed by a talk by Mr. Louwagie Gordon about his senior […]