Drexel University

Intro to Astronomy Class Provides Innovative, Interpersonal Ways to Discover the Cosmos

This piece is part of the DrexelNow series showcasing "A Day in the Class" for some of Drexel University's most interesting and impactful courses. Students in “PHYS 131 — Survey of the Universe” are ...
Mashable

Astronomy students discover a tiny nearby galaxy hid an enormous secret

A sliver of space where scientists found Segue 1, a faint dwarf galaxy about 75,000 light-years away, in 2006. Credit: Marla Geha / W.M. Keck Observatory It started with a homework assignment: A ...
The Conversation

Students were skipping my astrophysics class to play video games – so I turned the class itself into a video game

When I was a teenager in the early 1980s, I realized the potential of using video games in education. The same high school classmates who couldn’t pass a test at school could somehow remember what ...
Yahoo

St. Johns County Parks and Recreation to host free astronomy class, open to all ages

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. St. Johns County Parks and Recreation and the Ancient City Astronomy Club are partnering to host a free "Night Under the Stars" ...
Houston Chronicle

Students were skipping my astrophysics class to play video games – so I turned the class itself into a video game

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jane Charlton, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) When I was a teenager in the early 1980s, ...