Night’s mystery and beauty explored

MSUM event features music, poetry, astronomy and drama MSUM faculty and students from four academic departments come together to explore the night Friday, Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m. in Glasrud Auditorium in Weld Hall. The program interweaves readings of poetry with dramatic presentations, music performances and a star show, featuring images from the Hubble Space Telescope, and other observatories operated […]

Steve Lindaas presents at physics teachers meeting

Steve Lindaas, Physics and Astronomy, attended the winter meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). He presented an invited paper “Sustainability at MSUM”, during the session on Teaching Energy and the Environment. He also presided at the “Labs Rutherford Would Approve” session, which he also organized. He is the current chair of the Committee on Apparatus, which plans […]

Learn about sun dogs, halos and more at Jan. 21 physics seminar

Matt Craig, MSUM Department of Physics & Astronomy, will talk about “Upside-down Rainbows, Sun Dogs and Halos: Optical Phenomenon Caused by Ice Crystals” at a free seminar Friday, January 21 from 2:30-3:20 p.m. in Hagen Hall room 325. Ice crystals in the atmosphere cause a much wider variety of optical effects than water droplets. Water droplets cause rainbows, but ice […]

Juan Cabanela has article accepted for publication

An article co-authored by Juan Cabanela, Physics and Astronomy, has been accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal. As part of a four-year project, Cabanela and his collaborators obtained detailed spectra for over 4,000 stars, allowing them to measure their motions and chemical compositions. Analysis of the motions and positions of these stars has revealed that as the bar-shaped core […]

Dave Weinrich delivers paper at Brazil planetarium conference

Dave Weinrich, Planetarium Coordinator, recently gave an invited paper at the Association of Brazilian Planetariums conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The paper, “Science Popularization in a Third World Scenario,” detailed his involvement in building the first public planetarium in West Africa and astronomical outreach that he pursued in Sri Lanka. On January 1, 2011 Dave will assume his two-year […]