February 23 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Dark Matter Mystery – Exploring a Cosmic Secret UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States What keeps Galaxies together? What are the building blocks of the Universe? What makes the Universe look the way it looks today? Researchers all around the world try to answer these questions. We know today that approximately a quarter of the Universe is filled with a mysterious glue: Dark Matter. We know that it is... Free
February 23 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Tilt UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Join Annie, Max and their robot friend for a whirlwind adventure. It’s surprising what a new angle on the world can do. They examine the apparent path of the Sun and Earth's tilt to find out about the day-night cycle and why it is different at different places on Earth and at different times of... Free
March 2 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Two Small Pieces of Glass – The Amazing Telescope UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Two Small Pieces of Glass – The Amazing Telescope show follows two students as they interact with a female astronomer at a local star party. Along the way, the students learn the history of the telescope from Galileo's modifications to a child's spyglass — using two small pieces of glass — to the launch of... Free
March 9 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Seeing! A Photon’s Journey Across Space, Time and Mind UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Follow the journey of a single photon as it is produced in a distant star, before travelling across the vast expanse of space to land on someone’s retina. This fulldome planetarium show explores some of the fascinating processes of the cosmos, from astrophysics to the biology of the eye and brain. Funded through a generous... Free
March 30 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Big Astronomy UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Big Astronomy or Astronomía a Gran Escala, is a multifaceted research and outreach project, supported by several partners and funded by the National Science Foundation, that showcases the award-winning bilingual planetarium show Big Astronomy: People, Places, Discoveries. The planetarium show transports viewers to Chile where the dark skies and dry, remote setting create ideal conditions for... Free
March 30 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Legends of the Night Sky: Orion UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Orion takes a lighthearted and imaginative look at the myths and stories associated with the constellation Orion, the great hunter of the winter sky. Enjoy this animated re-telling of the classic Greek myth of the famous constellation Orion. This laser show is part of the Junior Scientist programming at UWSP and perfect for families! Accompanied... Free
Featured Featured April 5 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Collection Crawl UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States The Olson Museum of Natural History at UW-Stevens Point invites you to explore all 9 teaching and research collections in this year’s Collection Crawl. A day of hands-on learning and inspiration about the natural world for everyone! This year's crawl will feature the Geology Collection. Visit our natural science collections across three UW-Stevens Point buildings,... Free
April 6 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm The Sun, Our Living Star UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Discover the secrets of our Sun with never-before-seen images of the Sun’s surface. It is our nearest star and our planet’s powerhouse, the source of the energy that drives our winds, our weather and all life. The passage of the Sun’s fiery disc across the sky — day by day, month by month — was... Free
April 13 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Night of the Titanic UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Experience what it was like to stand on the deck of the doomed ocean liner Titanic the night she sank. "Night of the Titanic" shows the unique conditions in Earth and space that, coupled with human errors, contributed to the sinking of the ship on April 15, 1912. A new Houston Museum of Natural Science... Free