Discover how the team at Eastern Michigan University rebuilt its Sherzer Observatory and elevated its planetarium to become a focal point on campus and in the community.

EMU faced a major setback in 1989 when a fire destroyed its historic observatory. This challenge ignited a transformation that would lead to the development of a dynamic astronomy program and world-class planetarium.

Read the success story featuring Norbert Vance and Tom Kasper to see how EMU’s astronomy program and planetarium have reached new levels of success and engagement at the school.

Norbert Vance & Tom Kasper

Eastern Michigan University
It's an easy to use system — I can turn over the controls to other professors, and within a few minutes they're demonstrating things like celestial motions.

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