Most people know how to navigate to a travel site and book a plane ticket for their next vacation. But how many know how to book a trip to an asteroid? Paul Abell, a 1993 graduate of UND’s Space Studies program, […]
Attention all ND college students: Event: Join an online informational session to hear how you can get involved in NASA Space Grant funding. There are many upcoming application deadlines for summer 2021 programs! Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 Time: 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM […]
Space Studies M.S. candidate Justin Germann, will defend his thesis on Thursday, April 8th at 1:00 pm Central DST. Research Title: “VNIR Spectral Properties of Five G-class Asteroids: Implications for Mineralogy and Geologic Evolution.” Research Description: G-class asteroids are a relatively small […]
North Dakota NASA EPSCoR (Established Program to Simulate Competitive Research) is soliciting research proposals from faculty at affiliate institutions for Research Seed Grant funding to conduct NASA relevant research designed to promote and expand particular NASA research sub disciplines in […]
The Space Studies Spring 2021 Colloquium Series features several leading experts in various space-related fields. Please join us for our next remotely offered presentation in this series as outlined below. This presentation will feature Dr. Paul A. Abell, Chief Scientist […]
Dr. Louis Carfagno recently participated in the Space Studies Colloquium Series. An extensive interview by UND Today is found here.
The NDSGC met with Minot State University students and led a pre-service teacher workshop in February of 2021. We conducted two virtual hands-on activities and introduced the various NASA- and ND-based educator opportunities. Activities from the session Pocket Solar System NASA GLOBE citizen science […]
Organic-layered asteroids could bear fruit – or wheat, or other crops – for future space exploration, UND researcher Dr. Sherry Fieber-Beyer says. Check it out here
Chris Fabian, a 2019 Space Studies M.S. alum, had had an article based on his M.S. thesis research published in the inaugural issue of the Space Force Journal. Check out the article here. Failure to recognize the effects of unmotivated biases and […]
Lori Waters, current SPST M.S. student, has been accepted to the position of Crew Operations Officer for the HI-SEAS Selene IV Moon analog mission from March 13 to March 27, 2021. During this mission at HI-SEAS, she will be conducting plant […]