Campus Currents

December 9, 2024

Northern Lights

 

Community Stargazing with the McAuliffe Center

Monday, Dec. 9th, between 4:30 and 6 p.m.
Outside May Hall (Weather dependent)

Join members of the McAuliffe Center this evening for stargazing with telescopes! You probably won't see the Northern Lights again (photo by Ross Barros-Smith) but you can observe Saturn, the Moon and Venus! McAuliffe Center staff are available to answer your questions about telescopes and our Universe.

https://cm-center.org/event/dec9stargazing

 

Additional Upcoming Events

Thursday, Dec. 12, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Center for Inclusive Excellence

CELTSS is delighted to offer a one-day writing retreat hosted on campus. Join colleagues in a day (or an hour) of writing in community in the CIE, which offers multiple spaces to stretch out with your laptop. Please note space is limited and there will be no writing coaches on staff. This is simply a chance to use the Center for Inclusive Excellence space in O'Connor Hall and get some writing done! Coffee, tea, and some inspirational snacks will be provided.

Saturday, December 14
3 p.m. (SOLD OUT) 4:30 p.m. (ADDED) 6:30 p.m. (SOLD OUT)
McAuliffe Center 

The Christa McAuliffe Center is excited to bring to MetroWest the Black Hole Symphony, an immersive music production unfolding the story of black holes as engines of gravity, light, and creation through a groundbreaking fusion of art, science, and music!

Black Hole Symphony embarks audiences on a symphonic journey through spacetime, performed by a live chamber orchestra accompanied by stunning, immersive planetarium views. Over the course of the evening, audiences will plunge into deep space riding relativistic jets of plasma, guided through the dense dust torus, broad-line clouds, and ultimately reach the blazing accretion disk on the event horizon of a supermassive black hole.

Composer David Ibbett sonified the light of black hole galaxies as musical notes and chords, woven into a dramatic electro-symphonic score that reveals a hidden universe beyond the scope of our eyes.

Black Hole Symphony was produced by Museum of Science, Boston and Multiverse Concert Series in collaboration with astrophysicists from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard-Smithsonian and Black Hole Initiative.

Monday, Dec. 16, 4:30 p.m.
Hemenway Hall 209

The end of the semester can be stressful so come relax and have some fun at a Mix and Bake event! Join us in HH 209 on Monday, December 16th to make some Chocolate Toffee Crunch. This is a simple but delicious candy that is great to eat and share. The workshop will start at 4:30 pm and should last about 1 hour.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mix-and-bake-chocolate-toffee-crunch-tickets-1075745215899?aff=oddtdtcreator