1,000 West Fargo 1st Graders Visit Planetarium

If you have been in or near Bridges & McLean in the mornings over the past month, you may have been surrounded by busloads of 1st graders from West Fargo Public Schools. The Planetarium started the new year strong with multiple shows daily throughout the month of January. The program these students experience was specifically designed in collaboration with the […]

Anthropology Students Visit Chahinkapa Zoo for Primate Behavior Study

In October, Dr. Butler’s students in Introduction to Physical Anthropology (ANTH 120) visited the Chahinkapa Zoo in Wahpeton, ND for an immersive primate behavior observation experience – continuing a long-standing collaborative tradition between Minnesota State Moorhead and the zoo. Students had a unique opportunity to engage directly with the primates they study in class. Zoo staff begin the visit with […]

Minnesota State Moorhead Oceanarium publishes its first research paper on Ocean Literacy

The MSUM Oceanarium offers a summer program as part of College for Kids called Junior Aquarist Camp for Kids (JACK). Biology (EEB) majors Katie Hanson and Amber Sullivan developed and assessed the effectiveness of curricula based on the seven principles of Ocean Literacy (https://oceanliteracy.unesco.org/). The resulting manuscript based on that work has been accepted for publication in Current, the peer-reviewed journal […]

Sara Schultz, Planetarium, Invited to Present at annual “Best Of Nerd Nite Fargo”

Dr. Sara Schultz, Planetarium Director, has been invited to do an encore presentation of her March 2025 Nerd Nite talk: Fire in the Mountains: A Dragon’s Journey Through Chile at the Annual Best Of Nerd Nite.  The presentation focuses on Schultz’s 2024 trip through Chile as an Astronomy in Chile Education Ambassador Program participant.   Schultz was awarded a full-ride fellowship through the […]