You are invited to MB Johnson Park for International Observe the Moon Night on Saturday, September 19, from 8-10:30 p.m. Moorhead Parks and Recreation is teaming up with the Fargo-Moorhead Astronomy Club, the NASA-JPL Solar System Ambassadors of North Dakota, and the MSUM Department of Physics and Astronomy, to provide an evening of stargazing. Telescopes for observing the moon and […]
Summer Experience: Internship, Research and Conferences Friday, September 4 | 3:30 p.m. | HA 325 Aschalew Chamiso — AFM analysis of Biological Samples: an ongoing research project Jared Saunders and Isaac Skalsky — Educational adventures attending the American Association of Physics Teachers conference Tyler Meehleib — Work as a STEM education intern Dillon Hylton — An update on TRON (an […]
Department of Physics and Astronomy professor Matt Craig gave a talk titled “Widgets and Astropy: Accomplishing Productive Research with Undergraduates” and organized the Astropy code sprint at the 14th Annual SciPy conference. SciPy is devoted to applications of the computer language python to a wide area of physical, social and data sciences.
Steve Lindaas, Physics and Astronomy, along with students Jared Saunders and Isaac Skalsky attended the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) summer conference last week. The conference was held at the University of Maryland.
A group of MSUM Physics majors took time out of their busy summer work and research schedules to bring some hands-on science to kids and families attending the Clay County Fair last Saturday. Dana Koczur, Kyle Salk, Elias Holte and Andrew Block took a subset of hands-on physics activities traditionally used at the Annual Physics Demo Show to the fair. […]