WSU Planetarium

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Giving Day contributions of every size make a major difference! Support the WSU Planetarium today or give to another area that helps the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

  • Ready! Set! Give! Once 20 donors give to the WSU Planetarium, a generous $1,000 gift from Dean Stephanie Hartwell will be unlocked!

Friday Night Lights

Nearly every Friday evening the WSU Planetarium offers free shows to our community, welcoming community members onto our campus for dynamic scientific shows. We are committed to making science accessible to all members of the community, regardless of income or education level. We rely on the generous contributions of donors to defray the costs of these shows. Our goal this year is to cover the costs of our Friday night public programs through the end of 2024. In 2020, through a combination of Wayne State and donor funding, we were able to purchase a new planetarium projector, but due to pandemic closures and the Detroit floods in 2021, we were not able to make this fabulous state of the art system available to the public until late in 2022. We are thrilled to have the public back in the Planetarium again to learn from our outstanding student presenters from the Department of Physics and Astronomy.


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๐Ÿ“ข Updates
We are more than halfway to meeting our challenge grant!


Thank you to our donors! Whether a neutron star or a red supergiant, you are all stars in our universe! 

406 days ago by Vivian Brown

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๐Ÿ’› Advocates

for gifts made to any scholarship fund, the Greenwald Family Impact Foundation

Offered a $200,000 match

Medical Alumni Association Board of Governors

Offered a $58,000 match

Dr. Bob A. Smith โ€™60, M.A. โ€™74

Gave $40,000 during a Challenge!

Bob and Jeri Kelch

Offered a $30,000 match

Mark Rolling โ€™91, M.B.A. โ€™97

Gave $25,000 during a Challenge!

Lottie Holland, M.B.A. โ€˜06

Gave $25,000 during a Challenge!

College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts Board of Visitors

Offered a $14,000 match

Anonymous Brothers from the Delta Sigma Pi Gamma Theta Fraternity

Offered a $14,000 match

Wayne State Director of Athletics, Erika Wallace, and her husband, Marcus Wallace

Offered a $10,000 match

WSU Applebaum Board of Visitors

Offered a $10,000 match
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