MSU Science Festival

April 1 – 30, 2020

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  • Friday, April 3, 2020

    • All Events

      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Women in Science Wikipedia-Edit-a-Thon
        • MSU Campus
        1:00 - 3:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Campfire Science Night
        • Lansing
        6:00 - 9:00 PM

  • Saturday, April 4, 2020

    • Expo Zone Events

      • Expo Zone
        A Crash Course in Accelerators
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        A Plant is a Community: The Hidden World of Plant Microbiomes
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        A Smashing Time with Nuclei
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        AH NUTS! The Things We Get from Trees
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        All the Light You Can and Cannot See
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Amazing Animal Adaptations
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Are You the Next Olympic Athlete? Measuring Movement in Health and Disease
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Art & Science Intersections
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Astronaut Tools
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Bacterial Migration Under the Microscope
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Birds, Poo, and You!
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Check Out STEM @ CADL
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Chemistry of the Human Senses
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        CIGLR/NOAA GLERL Great Lakes Research: HOMES Is Where the Heart Is!
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Color Your Cabbage Leaf
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Computational Science: Robots, Supercomputers, and Virtual Reality, Oh My!
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Create Your Own pH Rainbow!
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Dancing, Tangles, and Rational Numbers
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Everything Falls
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Evolution in Action
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Exploring Human Ancestors
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Fish Under the Microscope
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Gigantris!
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Groundwater Adventure
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        How Do Plants Defend Themselves?
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        How Much Water is ‘Hidden’ in Your Everyday Life?
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        How Supercomputers Work
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Hunt Like a Hawk!
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Instrument Petting Zoo
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Invisible Quantum World
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Laser Tweezers: Reach Out and Grab Bacteria!
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Magic Wands
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Make Rare Isotopes from the Comfort of Your Couch
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Make Your Own Pulsar!
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Materials for the Body
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Mega-Operation!
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Michigan Audubon "Egg"stravaganza
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Michigan Snakes Alive
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Microscopic Wonders of the Human Body
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Molecules and Properties Unseen!
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        MSU Campus Archaeology Program
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Musical Explorations
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Native Bee Houses by Bailey Bee Team
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Nursing 101: Health Promotion, Skills, Assessment, and Simulation
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Open-Source 3D Printing
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Particle Astrophysics with IceCube and HAWC
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Physics and Astronomy Activities with WaMPS
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Plants and People: Tasty Tidbits for a Better World
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Polymers in Modern Lives
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Rain Cloud Groundwater Simulator
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Reveal the Science of Materials
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Science Gallery Detroit Pop-Up Exhibition
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Science Theatre: Hands on Demonstrations
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        See Light and Microscopic Pond Life
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Social Determinants of Dementia: Does Marriage Matter?
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Space: It's Out of This World!
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        The Buzz on Bees
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        The Clean Water Process: Treatment & Technology
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        The Invisible: Don't Just See It, Play With It!
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        The Magical Invisible Microbial World
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Vermicomposting with IQHub and the MiSTEM Network
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Weird Water: A Study of Different Densities
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        What Do You Know About Water & Health?
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        What's a Watershed?: Rain, Drains, and Surface Water Quality
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Where Does Our Drinking Water Come From? A Window Into Its Origins
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Why Do Scientists Use Frogs to Study Development?
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours
      • Expo Zone
        Why Study Spotted Hyenas?
        • MSU Campus
        Expo Hours

    • Demos, Talks, and All Other Events

      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Indoor 4-H Children's Butterfly Garden Open House
        • MSU Campus
        10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Amazing Astronomy & Fantastic Physics
        • MSU Campus
        10:30 - 11:30 AM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Budget Like a Boss!
        • MSU Campus
        11:00 - 11:30 AM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        How Could Computational Modeling Help You Plan a Hiking Path on Mt. Rainier?
        • MSU Campus
        11:00 - 11:30 AM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        How Do We Keep the Fish We Eat Healthy?
        • MSU Campus
        11:00 - 11:30 AM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Counting the Uncountable: Measuring the Diversity of Earth’s Invisible Species
        • MSU Campus
        11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Everything You Know About Mass is Wrong!
        • MSU Campus
        11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Explore the Invisible World of Blood!
        • MSU Campus
        11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Exploring the Invisible Aspects of Urban Trees Using Lasers: What We Learn From Ghost Pictures
        • MSU Campus
        11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Our Ancestors: The Evolution of Stars
        • MSU Campus
        11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Safe Control of Self-Driving Cars
        • MSU Campus
        11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Budget Like a Boss!
        • MSU Campus
        12:00 - 12:30 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Burning Forests to Save Forests
        • MSU Campus
        12:00 - 12:30 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Farming Healthy and Tasty Fish: Let's Be Sure!
        • MSU Campus
        12:00 - 12:30 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Is It Magic...or Chemistry?
        • MSU Campus
        12:00 - 1:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Science! The Musical
        • MSU Campus
        12:30 - 1:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        The Invisible Color Force That Binds Us (and Makes Us Heavy!)
        • MSU Campus
        12:30 - 1:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        How We See 23&Me
        • MSU Campus
        12:30 - 1:30 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        News from the Underground & the Magic of Mycelium
        • MSU Campus
        12:30 - 1:30 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Budget Like a Boss!
        • MSU Campus
        1:00 - 1:30 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        When Robots Deliver Pizza...
        • MSU Campus
        1:00 - 1:30 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Exciting Electromagnetism
        • MSU Campus
        1:00 - 2:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        So You Want To Be a Game Designer?
        • MSU Campus
        1:00 - 2:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Night Sky in Lansing
        • MSU Campus
        1:30 - 2:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        The Spartan Dischords Present: The Magnetism of Music
        • MSU Campus
        1:30 - 2:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        MSU Science Theatre Presents: The Newtonian Physics Show!
        • MSU Campus
        1:30 - 2:30 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Michigan State University Solar Racing Team: Electric Vehicles on the Road
        • MSU Campus
        2:00 - 2:30 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        NanoTB Test
        • MSU Campus
        2:00 - 2:30 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        New Ways of Delivering Education: Facilities Planning on Campus
        • MSU Campus
        2:00 - 2:30 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Night Sky in Lansing
        • MSU Campus
        2:00 - 2:30 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Toward the Circular Economy: The Use and ReUse of Plastic Materials
        • MSU Campus
        2:00 - 2:30 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Night Sky in Lansing
        • MSU Campus
        2:30 - 3:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Saving the Bees, One Garden at a Time
        • MSU Campus
        2:30 - 3:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Why the Amazon is More ‘The Heart’ Than ‘The Lungs’ of the Earth and How We Can Preserve Its Life-Sustaining Function
        • MSU Campus
        2:30 - 3:00 PM
      • Signature Events
        Coding to the Moon: Margaret Hamilton and the Apollo Missions
        • MSU Campus
        2:30 - 3:30 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Michigan State University Solar Racing Team: Electric Vehicles on the Road
        • MSU Campus
        3:00 - 3:30 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Your Brain on Sleep
        • MSU Campus
        3:00 - 3:30 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Science That You Can't Do At Home!
        • MSU Campus
        3:00 - 4:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Seeing Stars: How Birds Use the Night Sky to Navigate
        • MSU Campus
        3:00 - 4:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Seeing Thoughts and Feelings
        • MSU Campus
        3:00 - 4:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Superheroes Curing the Big Bad Sickness
        • MSU Campus
        3:00 - 4:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Saving the Bees, One Garden at a Time
        • MSU Campus
        3:30 - 4:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Why the Amazon is More ‘The Heart’ Than ‘The Lungs’ of the Earth and How We Can Preserve Its Life-Sustaining Function
        • MSU Campus
        3:30 - 4:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Wooden Skyscrapers?: MSU's 'Mass Timber' Building
        • MSU Campus
        3:30 - 4:00 PM
      • Signature Events
        Coding to the Moon: Margaret Hamilton and the Apollo Missions
        • MSU Campus
        4:30 - 5:30 PM
      • Science Cafe/Pub
        Beat the Scientist
        • Lansing
        7:00 - 9:00 PM

  • Sunday, April 5, 2020

    • All Events

      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Indoor 4-H Children's Butterfly Garden Open House
        • MSU Campus
        10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Sustaining the Vision Open House at the Kellogg Biological Station
        • Kalamazoo/Battle Creek
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM

  • Wednesday, April 8, 2020

    • All Events

      • Science Cafe/Pub
        Astronomy on Tap
        • Lansing
        7:30 - 9:30 PM

  • Thursday, April 9, 2020

    • All Events

      • Science Cafe/Pub
        Propagation Lab
        • Lansing
        7:00 - 8:00 PM
      • Science Cafe/Pub
        Grand Rapids Science on Tap
        • Grand Rapids
        8:00 - 10:00 PM

  • Friday, April 10, 2020

    • All Events

      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Tour of the Center for Advanced Microscopy
        • MSU Campus
        11:00 - 11:50 AM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Skeletons, Jaws, and Jars: A Tour of the MSU Museum Vertebrate Collections
        • MSU Campus
        2:00 - 2:30 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Skeletons, Jaws, and Jars: A Tour of the MSU Museum Vertebrate Collections
        • MSU Campus
        2:45 - 3:15 PM

  • Saturday, April 11, 2020

    • All Events

      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Observatory Turns 50! (Workshop)
        • MSU Campus
        9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Indoor 4-H Children's Butterfly Garden Open House
        • MSU Campus
        10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        BeLEAF It or Not! Enjoy a Fun-Filled Video Series on Forests and Forestry
        • MSU Campus
        11:00 - 11:30 AM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Fins to Limbs: How Our Ancestors Left the Water and Came Onto Land
        • MSU Campus
        12:00 - 1:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Super Bugs-From the Public Health Lab!
        • MSU Campus
        3:00 - 3:30 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Plant Pharmacy: Why Plant Defenses are Valuable to Us
        • MSU Campus
        4:00 - 4:30 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Observatory Turns 50! (Stargazing!)
        • MSU Campus
        9:00 - 11:00 PM

  • Monday, April 13, 2020

    • All Events

      • Science Cafe/Pub
        Our Ancestors: The Evolution of Stars
        • Lansing
        7:00 - 8:00 PM
      • Science Cafe/Pub
        Night Sky in Lansing
        • Lansing
        8:00 - 8:30 PM
      • Science Cafe/Pub
        Building Better Space Teams: Tracking Team Interactions, Conflict, and Attitudes in Space Mission Analogs
        • Lansing
        8:30 - 9:30 PM

  • Tuesday, April 14, 2020

    • All Events

      • Nights at the Museums
        MSU Museum Night at the Museums
        • MSU Campus
        5:00 - 8:00 PM
      • Nights at the Museums
        MSU Broad Art Museum Night at the Museums
        • MSU Campus
        5:00 - 8:00 PM
      • Nights at the Museums
        The Roc at MSU: What Can We Learn From a Skeleton?
        • MSU Campus
        5:00 - 8:00 PM

  • Wednesday, April 15, 2020

    • All Events

      • Science Cafe/Pub
        News from the Underground & the Magic of Mycelium
        • Lansing
        7:00 - 8:00 PM

  • Thursday, April 16, 2020

    • All Events

      • Nights at the Museums
        WILX-TV Channel 10 Live Weather Forecast from Impression 5 Science Center
        • Lansing
        5:00 - 5:30 PM
      • Nights at the Museums
        Impression 5 Night at the Museum
        • Lansing
        5:00 - 7:30 PM
      • Nights at the Museums
        Earth Is Blue: A Closer Look at National Marine Sanctuaries in A Night at the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
        • Alpena
        7:00 - 9:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Big Astronomy: How the Observatories in Chile Keep Working
        • MSU Campus
        7:30 - 8:30 PM

  • Friday, April 17, 2020

    • All Events

      • Nights at the Museums
        Potter Park Zoo: An Evening of Awesome, Interactive Experiences at a Living Museum
        • Lansing
        5:00 - 8:00 PM
      • Statewide Astronomy Night
        Statewide Astronomy Night at Kingman Museum
        • Kalamazoo/Battle Creek
        5:00 - 8:00 PM
      • Statewide Astronomy Night
        Looking into the Sky with New Eyes at Kalamazoo Valley Museum
        • Kalamazoo/Battle Creek
        5:00 - 8:30 PM
      • Statewide Astronomy Night
        Astrophotography for Beginners and Advanced at Henry Ford College
        • Detroit
        6:30 - 11:00 PM
      • Statewide Astronomy Night
        Big Astronomy: People, Places, Discovery at Abrams Planetarium
        • MSU Campus
        7:00 - 9:00 PM
      • Statewide Astronomy Night
        Ella Sharp Museum's Hurst Planetarium: Our Shared Night Sky
        • Jackson
        7:00 - 10:00 PM
      • Statewide Astronomy Night
        Statewide Astronomy Night at Bay City State Park
        • Bay City
        7:00 - 10:00 PM
      • Statewide Astronomy Night
        Statewide Astronomy Night at the MSU Observatory
        • MSU Campus
        8:00 - 10:00 PM
      • Statewide Astronomy Night
        Statewide Astronomy Night at Veen Observatory
        • Grand Rapids
        8:30 - 11:30 PM

  • Saturday, April 18, 2020

    • All Events

      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Ecology and More Extravaganza Tour
        • Lansing
        9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Indoor 4-H Children's Butterfly Garden Open House
        • MSU Campus
        10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Tour and Explore the World of Insects at the MSU Bug House
        • MSU Campus
        10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Tour the Lansing Makerspace
        • Lansing
        10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Science In Spaaaaace
        • MSU Campus
        11:00 - 11:30 AM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Visualizing the Invisible: Architecture on East Campus
        • MSU Campus
        11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        How Falcons Help Farmers and Farmers Help Falcons
        • MSU Campus
        12:00 - 12:30 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Neuroscience Fair
        • MSU Campus
        12:00 - 4:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        We Have Heart!
        • MSU Campus
        12:00 - 4:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Poisonous Plants in Your Yard
        • MSU Campus
        12:30 - 1:15 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Molecules at the Movies
        • MSU Campus
        1:00 - 1:30 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Theater Scene Shop Tour
        • MSU Campus
        1:00 - 1:30 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Tour Bailey Greenhouse and Urban Farm: A Student Run Learning Center
        • MSU Campus
        1:00 - 1:30 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Energy In Motion with Curious Crew
        • MSU Campus
        1:00 - 2:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Broad Art Museum: Never Spoken Again Tour
        • MSU Campus
        1:00 - 2:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Vernal Pools in MSU's Baker Woodlot: Our Spring Wake-up Call!
        • MSU Campus
        1:00 - 2:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        A Bountiful Branch of Botany: Tours of the MSU Herbarium and Teaching Conservatory
        • MSU Campus
        1:00 - 4:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Library Open House Digital Scholarship Lab: Online Privacy, Virtual Reality, and Immersive Visualization
        • MSU Campus
        1:00 - 4:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Library Open House Makerspace: What’s a Makerspace?
        • MSU Campus
        1:00 - 4:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Library Open House Map Library: Compass and Map Navigation
        • MSU Campus
        1:00 - 4:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Library Open House: Botanical Gems- Rare Books with Preserved Plant Specimens
        • MSU Campus
        1:00 - 4:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Library Open House: Make Your Own Book!
        • MSU Campus
        1:00 - 4:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Library Open House: Print Your Own Science Festival Bookmark!
        • MSU Campus
        1:00 - 4:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Library Open House: Rare Books of Animals and People Working Together
        • MSU Campus
        1:00 - 4:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Library Open House: Seed Library
        • MSU Campus
        1:00 - 4:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Tour Arboriculture at MSU
        • MSU Campus
        1:30 - 2:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Recycling: Behind the Scenes Tour
        • MSU Campus
        2:00 - 2:30 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Tour Bailey Greenhouse and Urban Farm: A Student Run Learning Center
        • MSU Campus
        2:00 - 2:30 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Poisonous Plants in Your Yard
        • MSU Campus
        2:00 - 2:45 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Tour the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
        • MSU Campus
        2:00 - 2:50 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Anaerobic Digester Tour
        • MSU Campus
        2:15 - 3:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Nuclear Science from a Whole New Angle: Virtual Tour of the NSCL and FRIB
        • MSU Campus
        2:15 - 3:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Tour Arboriculture at MSU
        • MSU Campus
        2:30 - 3:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Recycling: Behind the Scenes Tour
        • MSU Campus
        2:45 - 3:15 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Theater Scene Shop Tour
        • MSU Campus
        3:00 - 3:30 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Tour Bailey Greenhouse and Urban Farm: A Student Run Learning Center
        • MSU Campus
        3:00 - 3:30 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Energy In Motion with Curious Crew
        • MSU Campus
        3:00 - 4:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Broad Art Museum: Never Spoken Again Tour
        • MSU Campus
        3:00 - 4:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Anaerobic Digester Tour
        • MSU Campus
        3:15 - 4:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Wild Plant Foods and the Salad Bar of Spring
        • MSU Campus
        3:15 - 4:00 PM
      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Knockout Anatomy
        • MSU Campus
        5:00 - 6:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Public Observing at MSU Observatory
        • MSU Campus
        9:00 - 11:00 PM

  • Sunday, April 19, 2020

    • All Events

      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Indoor 4-H Children's Butterfly Garden Open House
        • MSU Campus
        10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        Explore Harris Nature Center Open House
        • Lansing
        12:00 - 4:00 PM

  • Tuesday, April 21, 2020

    • All Events

      • Talks, Demonstrations, and Performances
        Signs of Life: New Directions in Biodiversity Collections Research. An Interdisciplinary Symposium
        • MSU Campus
        3:00 - 7:00 PM

  • Wednesday, April 22, 2020

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        Celebrate Earth Day on Science on a Sphere at the MSU Museum!
        • MSU Campus
        9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

  • Thursday, April 23, 2020

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      • Nights at the Museums
        Secret Lives of Michigan Objects at Michigan History Center
        • Lansing
        5:00 - 8:00 PM
      • Nights at the Museums
        The Building Blocks of Matter: Atoms or LEGOs?
        • Lansing
        6:00 - 7:00 PM

  • Friday, April 24, 2020

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      • Signature Events
        Visualizing the Invisible: A Talk with Dr. Sian Proctor, Analog Astronaut
        • MSU Campus
        7:00 - 8:00 PM

  • Saturday, April 25, 2020

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      • Nights at the Museums
        The Great Global Cleanup--Detroit River at Belle Isle State Park
        • Detroit
        8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      • Nights at the Museums
        Fly into Science: Discover the Unseen Mysteries of Flight at the Yankee Air Museum
        • Detroit
        10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Indoor 4-H Children's Butterfly Garden Open House
        • MSU Campus
        10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Nights at the Museums
        How are Sea Lamprey Controlled?
        • Detroit
        1:00 - 6:00 PM
      • Nights at the Museums
        Science--Making It Happen at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
        • Detroit
        1:00 - 6:00 PM

  • Sunday, April 26, 2020

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      • Take a Tour/Open House
        MSU Indoor 4-H Children's Butterfly Garden Open House
        • MSU Campus
        10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

  • Monday, April 27, 2020

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      • Science Cafe/Pub
        Communication (Science) On Tap
        • Lansing
        7:00 - 8:30 PM

  • Tuesday, April 28, 2020

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      • Science Cafe/Pub
        Biology on Tap!
        • Lansing
        7:30 - 9:30 PM

  • Thursday, April 30, 2020

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      • Nights at the Museums
        An Evening at the Air Zoo
        • Kalamazoo/Battle Creek
        6:00 - 8:00 PM

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