Fundraising Underway to Update Campus Planetarium

Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2010

Contact: Michael Allen, instructor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 509-335-1279, mlfa@wsu.edu


PULLMAN, Wash. The future of Washington State University's Planetarium is moving towards an update, as a fundraising effort is underway to purchase a new star projector. Right now, space, the planets and the stars can be seen through 1960s technology.

The current projector, installed in Sloan Hall when the planetarium was constructed, wows and awes more than 1,000 6th graders each year, as well as WSU undergrad and graduate students.

Astronomy Instructor Michael Allen said, that due to the outdated equipment, when the projector breaks, parts are hard to come by and some functions don't even work anymore.

Allen said the projector is an important part of early education, as studies of the cosmos are taught several times in the Washington K-12 curriculum.

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