Steve Lindaas helped run discussion and workshops at the AAPT

Steve Lindaas, Physics and Astronomy, attended the winter American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) conference in New Orleans earlier this month. He helped organize and run a topical discussion session and two workshops: “Sketch-n-Etch” on creating circuit boards and “Low Cost Instructional Labs.” He is now Chair of the Committee on Science Education for the Public and is helping to […]

University Physics Competition was top performing team from the U.S.

MSUM’s University Physics Competition team earned MSUM a bronze medal, and was the top preforming team from the U.S. for the problem they selected, notably defeating NDSU, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Upperclassmen Meredith McLinn, Pragalav Karki and Shouvik Bhattacharya modeled the effect an Earth-like planet’s mass has on its volcanic activity. To learn […]