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 […]
Juan Cabanela (Computer Science and Information Systems) and Matt Craig (Physics and Astronomy), along with their colleague Nicole Brewer (Arizona State University) presented a tutorial at the SciPy 2024 Conference in Tacoma, Washington on July 8-12. The SciPy conference typically has about 800 attendees who are Python programmers in a wide range of disciplines, both in academia and industry. Tutorials […]
Juan Cabanela (Computer Science and Information Systems) and Matt Craig (Physics and Astronomy) along with their colleague Nicole Brewer (Arizona State University) presented a tutorial at the SciPy 2024 Conference in Tacoma, Washington on July 8-12. The SciPy conference typically has about 800 attendees who are Python programmers in a wide range of disciplines, both in academia and industry. Tutorials […]