Two Moorhead professors and night sky experts were featured in stories last week about the Aurora Borealis, or the Northern Lights. Planetarium Director Sara Schultz was featured in the Forum/WDAY news story, MSUM planetarium director shares when and where to see northern lights. Professor Juan Cabanela, Computer Science & Information Systems Department, was featured in the KVRR news story, Northern […]
Planetarium director Sara Schultz and science education student Erick Hernandez presented Sept. 25 and 26 to the Middle Atlantic Planetarium Society (MAPS) annual virtual conference. Schultz presented to the members about her doctoral research on strategic questioning in the planetarium. Schultz and Hernandez presented a workshop based on that same research which Hernandez had been developing over the summer as […]
Planetarium Director, Sara Schultz, completed her doctoral degree this summer from the University of Wyoming. Her degree is in Curriculum & Instruction with a focus on Science Education, in particular, using the planetarium as a teaching tool. Her doctoral research investigated the nature of formative assessment in the form of assessment conversations (i.e. strategic questioning) present in planetarium presentations across […]
The months of April and May are typically the busiest of the whole year for the MSUM Planetarium. With the pandemic, that has all changed. However, director, Sara Schultz, provided a mini virtual field trip for the dozens of Moorhead kindergarteners who would normally have been coming during their “Space Week.” This year, the field trip looked a little different, […]
Planetarium Director, Sara Schultz and Art Professor Brad Bachmeier were granted $9,000 to work in guiding art and science students to research and execute educationally accurate and visually dynamic murals to renovate the hallway entrance and walls for the planetarium. With this phase finished, Art students will now work with Youth Educational Services Art Teacher Karen Anderson and her students […]