Morehead Planetarium and Science Center

We Are Stars
2024-02-25 13:30 - 14:30 (America/New_York)

The Longest Night: A Winter's Tale
2024-02-25 15:00 - 16:00

One Sky, Many Eyes
2024-02-25 16:30 - 17:30, 2024-03-10 16:30 - 17:30

Forward! To the Moon
2024-03-01 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-03-08 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-03-15 15:00 - 16:00

Carolina Skies
2024-03-01 16:30 - 17:30, 2024-03-02 16:30 - 17:30, 2024-03-08 16:30 - 17:30, 2024-03-09 16:30 - 17:30, 2024-03-15 16:30 - 17:30

Astronomy Workshop - Basic Training
2024-03-01 18:00 - 20:30

Magic Tree House Space Mission
2024-03-02 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-03-09 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-03-16 10:30 - 11:30

Astronaut
2024-03-02 12:00 - 13:00

Earth, Moon and Sun
2024-03-02 13:30 - 14:30, 2024-03-09 13:30 - 14:30

Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis
2024-03-02 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-03-09 15:00 - 16:00

[CANCELLED] The Sun: Our Living Star
2024-03-03 13:30 - 14:30

[CANCELLED] Mars: The Ultimate Voyage
2024-03-03 15:00 - 16:00

[CANCELLED] One Sky, Many Eyes
2024-03-03 16:30 - 17:30

Directives from the Deep Sea | Carolina Science Cafe
2024-03-05 18:00 - 19:00 | Haw River Tap & Table, 300 E Main St C, Carrboro, NC, 27510, United States
Join us for our next installment of the Carolina Science Cafe, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center’s free, current science awareness program. For the March cafe, we will be joined by professional science communicator Marley Parker to learn what life is like during a deep-sea ocean expedition.

How do benthic organisms impact our daily lives? Why (and how) should we invest resources to explore the seafloor? Are submersibles safe? In this talk, Marley Parker will discuss these questions, and share photos, videos, and stories from several of her deep sea research expeditions.

Designed for adults, this program explores science topics making national and international headlines and offers the chance to meet the experts behind the headlines. The Carolina Science Café will be hosted at Haw River Tab & Table in Carrboro on Tuesday, March 5th, starting at 6:00 p.m. with light appetizers available for all attendees.

Meet the Speaker

Marley Parker has spent the past decade working as a professional science communicator. At the beginning of 2018, she left her full-time position at UNC Research to start her own business as a freelance photographer, videographer, and science writer. In the past six years, Marley has specialized in documenting deep sea research. She has joined over 20 expeditions on various research vessels in the Pacific, the North Atlantic, the Caribbean, and the Antarctic Peninsula.

Carolina Science Cafe is produced by Morehead Planetarium and Science Center and sponsored by the UNC Chapter of Sigma Xi.

You do not need to register…just show up!

Cosmic Colors
2024-03-09 12:00 - 13:00

The Sun: Our Living Star
2024-03-10 13:30 - 14:30

Mars: The Ultimate Voyage
2024-03-10 15:00 - 16:00

Teen Science Cafe | Next-generation Leaders in Science and Technology
2024-03-15 17:30 - 19:00 | Morehead Planetarium Fulldome Theater, 250 E Franklin St, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27514, United States
Please join us at Morehead Planetarium on Friday, March 15th for a very exciting and very special Teen Science Cafe! For this month we will be joined by a delegation of high school students from Japan as a part of Nagoya University MIRAI Global Science Campus program. This program is designed to develop students into truly creative researchers who will be future leaders in science and technology. Under this program, the University will recruit students with creativity and imagination who dream of winning a Nobel Prize (in Physics, Chemistry or Physiology/Medicine), and students who are highly willing and motivated to become future leaders on the world stage.

We will have an exciting poster session for many of the students during the pizza social session from 5:30 – 6:00 and several more will be giving short presentations on their research projects as a part of the normal presentation time from 6:00 – 7:00. No registration required to attend but expect a higher attendance than usual.

Below is the list of research projects that will be shared by the visiting students:

Effect of Ag addition on the hydrogen permeation through Pd-based membranes: An experimental and computational study

Fabrication of Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) graded layer for ultra high efficient multi-junction solar cells

Thermomagnetic Effects in Co/CoGe Multilayers for Novel Thermoelectric Conversion Device Applications

Proposal for Improving Public Transportation in Rural Areas Using Person Trajectory Data and Questionnaire Survey

X-ray Observation Data Reveals Mysteries of Stars and Clusters of Galaxies

The research on the influence of polyphenols in the fibril growth of Amyloid Beta

An attempt to elucidate and predict the onset of solar flares based on three-dimensional analyses of solar magnetic field

Production of oils from various sugars using budding yeast

Differential damage response using nerve injury-induced gene-deficient mice

Exploring Bystander Effect in Pancreatic Cancer: Development of a Novel Treatment Strategy

Global Science Campus is a program organized by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) to develop next-generation leaders in science and technology. Under this program, for developing outstanding human resources who will be able to play active roles in the world, universities recruit and screen local high school students with excellent motivation and capabilities, as well as develop and implement sophisticated science programs, which include international activities, for the students.

Program Schedule

5:30 pm – Arrive and check in. We will gather inside the west, main entrance of Morehead.

5:30 pm – 6:00 pm: Poster Session & Pizza Social. Pizza social will take place in our classrooms, located on the 2nd floor.

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Presentation & Discussion. Presentations will take place at the Full Dome Theater located in the Breakthrough Hub.

*Please Note: Depending on scheduled activities, the program may end between 7:00 p.m. and 7:15 p.m.

Star Families: The Moon
2024-03-16 12:00 - 13:00
