Saturday, November 30, 2024

Take a peek behind the curtain and test drive the NEW StateNews.com today!

Campus briefs

March 13, 2002
MSU Museum talk details digital art

With a storage of artwork moving from dusty galleries to memory chips, MSU Museum officials are addressing the preservation of digital artwork.

Bernard Reilly Jr., president of the Center for Research Libraries, will be presenting the program “Learning from Enron: Cultural Stewardship in the Digital Age” at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the MSU Museum Auditorium.

Museum spokeswoman Lora Helou said the program is an effort to bring in professionals from the museum world to address timely and relevant issues, and would benefit both students and faculty.

“We’re more and more in a digital age where we preserve and save images in a digital manner,” she said. “Students could bring away a greater philosophy and management of working with digital images.”

The spoken and visual presentation is free, and will last about an hour, Helou said.


Planetarium offers insight into night sky

Abrams Planetarium is offering an opportunity to journey into the night sky.

The general show, “Orion Rendezvous,” invites viewers to travel through a wormhole to a planetary nebula, using the Digistar technology to simulate motion.

Shows are running at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 4 p.m. Sundays. A family show, recommended for small children, runs at 2:30 p.m. Sundays.

“It’s as if you can actually feel the motion,” planetarium spokeswoman Mary Gowans said. “It’s a great way to spend your time, and it’s not expensive.”

Admission prices are $3 for adults, $2.50 for students and seniors, and $2 for children 12 and under.

The Observatory also will be offering free public observing nights March 22 and 23.

“It’s really worth going,” Gowans said. “Without a telescope, you can’t see the moons of Jupiter, which are always moving. It’s the neatest thing.”

Support student media! Please consider donating to The State News and help fund the future of journalism.

Discussion

Share and discuss “Campus briefs” on social media.