February 1 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Forward! To the Moon! UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States NASA’s 21st century Artemis program, named after the Greek moon goddess and twin of Apollo, is the next step in our mission to explore the universe and land the first woman and person of color on the surface of the Moon. Using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before, NASA uses what... Free
February 8 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Mars: The Ultimate Voyage UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Discover the many challenges astronauts will face and how creativity, communication, and collaboration are essential for deep space exploration. This full-dome show takes audiences to the Red Planet. On a two year journey to Mars astronauts will face extraordinary challenges—long distance, a closed environment, isolation, altered gravity, radiation. Witness what it takes to embark on... Free
March 1 @ 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 8 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm From Earth to the Universe UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States The night sky, both beautiful and mysterious, has been the subject of campfire stories, ancient myths, and awe for as long as there have been people. A desire to comprehend the universe may well be humanity's oldest shared intellectual experience. Yet only recently have we truly begun to grasp our place in the vast cosmos.... Free
Featured April 11 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Collection Crawl 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
Featured May 1 @ 1:45 pm - 4:30 pm Undergraduate Research Symposium 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
May 3 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Phantom of the Universe – The Search for Dark Matter 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
May 10 @ 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