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The Janes Film Screening

DUC Theater 1015 Reserve Street, Stevens Point, WI, United States

Join us at the DUC Theater. This 2022 documentary tells the story of The Jane Collective, or the Janes, a clandestine group of women who built an underground service for women seeking safe, affordable, illegal abortions in the late 1960s and early 70s. The Janes is sponsored by the UWSP Women's and Gender Studies Program...

The Universe in a Room: The Story of The Planetarium

UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States

Travel back 100 years in this full dome planetarium show about this wonderful invention! Throughout history, humanity has been fascinated by the night sky, and various mechanical models were built, ultimately leading to a magical innovation, to dynamically represent the starry sky. In ancient Greece, celestial globes, orreries, and astrolabes were created to simulate the...

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Death of the Dinosaurs

UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States

What killed the dinosaurs? See how these giants lived and survived on the earth millions of years ago and even watch the cataclysmic event that lead to their ultimate extinction. Featuring animations, on-site locations of dinosaur fossil discoveries, and even Houston Museum of Natural Science world-class Hall of Paleontology, you’ll feel like you are right...

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Dinosaur Prophecy

UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States

Never before have so many types of dinosaurs come to life in full-dome immersive reality. Long before dinosaurs' massive extinction 65 million years ago, many individual species simply disappeared. Visit dinosaur graveyards, study their bones, and reconstruct how these creatures lived and died to solve four famous cold cases from the age of the dinosaurs...

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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...

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