Dave Weinrich, MSUM Planetarium and President of the International Planetarium Society (IPS), recently gave an invited talk at the Gwacheon National Science Museum in Seoul, South Korea. It is hoped that the country’s planetarium professionals will organize and become IPS’ 23rd regional affiliate.
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 […]
Experience will be immersive, dynamic and far-reaching Imagine leaning back in a comfortable, climate-controlled room and diving into the depths of the ocean, flying to the mountaintops on Earth or soaring out to the furthest known quasar. This seamless visualization will soon be available in MSUM’s with its new digital Elumenati projector and Uniview scientific software. The new projector will […]
A physics seminar on “Physics Major to Planetarian-A Personal Journey” will be held Friday, October 28 from 2:30 to 3:20 p.m. in Hagen Hall 325. The speaker is Dave Weinrich from MSUM Department of Physics and Astronomy. About the talk: Growing up in southeastern Minnesota at the beginning of the Space Age, I developed an early interest in amateur astronomy. […]
Dave Weinrich, Planetarium Coordinator, and students from the MSUM Society of Physics Students, will present astronomy programs this week at the Moorhead Public Library. Moon Mythology Across Cultures will be presented Thursday, March 3 from 7 to 8 p.m. Join Dave Weinrich, Coordinator of the MSUM Planetarium to learn about cultural and natural history associated with the moon and lunar […]