Dr. Matthew Craig, Department of Physics and Astronomy, was one of the keynote speakers at the 7th annual Dakota Nights Astronomy Festival at Theodore Roosevelt National Park over Labor Day weekend. Over 500 people attended the festival.
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