Prof. Sam LawlerI survived my incredibly long day at Simon Fraser University, and had a lot of super interesting conversations (molecular motors whaaaattt?!) Also SFU is a wildly weird and beautiful campus
ACARSTheir astronomy outreach program is AMAZING (despite only having 1 astro prof). Paid staff run a modern telescope with perfect equipment, people use a virtual queue to get a turn at the big telescope, and the local RASC amateur astronomy chapter set up their own telescopes around the outside for everyone to look at while waiting. There's scientific art scattered around, and great student volunteer opportunities. It's amazing! Anybody have a few million $ for my university to do this too?
Ari "Two Foxes" Jackson@sundogplanets Ooooooooh!! 😍
Michael Porter@sundogplanets Love that sundial!
The Lady (La Donna)@sundogplanets
Wow, that campus is amazing. Science-art for the win. I would love to visit.
Wow, that campus is amazing. Science-art for the win. I would love to visit.
Allusion@sundogplanets It would probably cost a lot less than millions. You could even get a traditional dome building if you build your obsy at the top of a decommissioned silo. 
@giltay Yes, but hiring and paying staff to run it (because there's absolutely no way I can do that on top of all my teaching and research and service) could cost millions
@sundogplanets I was being a little facetious. I know the cost of actually operating an observatory is why we nearly lost the David Dunlop here in Ontario.
Larry
glasspshr@sundogplanets do you have a local amateur astronomy club?
Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD@sundogplanets It helps to have university alumni who get rich enough to do big donations and a few million people living nearby.
jlin@sundogplanets glad you got to experience it!