The Office of Campus Sustainability is collecting old, junk car batteries to support fundraising for a new battery bank for their electric Chevy S-10. Known as ‘Tron’ the converted S-10 was donated to the department last year, and is powered by an electric motor and 24 deep cycle batteries.
The annual physics show will be on April 11th from 3pm-4:30pm. Please come and join us and enjoy the show!
By Angie Wieck on Feb 22, 2015 at 3:32 p.m. MOORHEAD – One of the benefits of growing up on a farm near Forest River, N.D., was an unobstructed view of the night sky. Sara Schultz was studying the stars long before she was hired as an instructor and planetarium coordinator at Minnesota State University Moorhead.
Matt Craig, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, is a co-author on two recently published papers. One, in the Proceedings of the 125th Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, is entitled “Writing and Assessing Student Learning Objectives: Tips, Techniques, and What Our Community Needs.”
MSUM Physics and Astronomy Seminar Series Presents: Shedding Light on Dark Matter using Cryogenic Detectors