Steve Lindaas, Physics and Astronomy, attended HI-TEC (High Impact Technology Exchange Conference) held in Denver July 23-26. He attended the pre-workshop “What’s in Your Genes?” on the nano-technology behind DNA microarrays and similar technology. He also presented a touch-screen pedagogical module he developed with Carrie Leopold, NDSCS, that is being adopted by the Southwest Center for Microsystems Education at the […]
Steve Lindaas, Physics and Astronomy, attended the summer AAPT (American Association of Physics Teachers) conference in Philadelphia from July 28 to August 1. He attended a workshop on “Using FPGAs in the Digital Lab” and gave an invited talk “Elementary Electronics: From Simple to Sophisticated Circuits” in the session on Labs at Many Levels. As vice-chair of the Committee on […]
Linda Winkler, Physics and Astronomy, attended the BYF (Beyond the First Year) Advanced Lab conference held in Philadelphia prior to the summer AAPT meeting. In addition to attending mini-workshops on various advanced labs she presented a poster on the advanced physics lab at MSUM titled “Developing Professionalism in a Sophomore-level Experimental Physics Class.”
By: Ryan Johnson, INFORUM MOORHEAD – While it was built with valid scientific goals in mind, the premise of the six-wheeled, 2,000-pound Curiosity rover and the engineering feat that landed it on Mars early Monday could strike some as more science fiction than reality. “We have landed a nuclear-powered truck on another world,” said Juan Cabanela, astronomy professor at Minnesota […]
A physics seminar on “Matters of the Heart: The Physics of the Electrocardiogram” will be held Friday, December 2, from 2:30 to 3:20 p.m. in Hagen Hall 325. The speaker is MSUM Professor Ananda Shastri. What is an electrocardiogram (ECG)? Why does the heart create an electrical signal? Why are so many wires attached to the patient? What can an […]