Collection Crawl Featured April 11 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Collection Crawl annual open house is a chance for us to showcase a wide variety of museum specimens from all of our UWSP collections. Participants can spend hours visiting collection sites around campus and engaging in science games and activities with our staff and volunteers. Free
Mysteries of Your Brain April 12 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Jump into an animated adventure following a girl and her crow companion as they explore what makes the human brain so special. Together you’ll zoom along the paths of neurons, find out how human and animal brains differ, and experience illusions on a grand scale! Along the way, you’ll learn how your brain makes you,... Free
Undergraduate Research Symposium Featured May 1 @ 1:45 pm - 4:30 pm Chemistry Biology Building 2101 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States The College of Letters and Science will celebrate an outstanding group of student researchers representing projects from across COLS majors. The Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium is scheduled for Friday, May 1, 2026. The day of student presentation features projects in the humanities, natural sciences, math, computing, and the social and behavioral sciences. Students showcase their... Free
Phantom of the Universe – The Search for Dark Matter May 3 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States This planetarium show journeys across space and time, speeding alongside particles before they collide in a visually stunning explosion of light and sound. Then, learn how scientist around the world are collaborating to track down dark matter… the hunt is on. Narrated by Academy Award winner, Tilda Swinton with sound by an Academy Award winning... Free
Seeing! A Photon’s Journey Across Space, Time and Mind May 10 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm 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