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SpSt grad student Sophie Orr is currently completing thesis research at NASA Johnson Space Center using the Active Response Gravity Offload System (ARGOS). Traveling with her from UND are UND faculty members Dr. Pablo de León (SpSt) and Dr. Jesse Rhoades (Kinesiology & Public Health), SpSt alums Sean McCloat and Chris Buelke. Also stopping by are […]

The Spring 2018 Space Studies Colloquium Series focuses on CisLunar infrastructure, and will feature several leading experts in this field.  The first presentation in this series will feature Jim Keravala, Co-founder and CEO of OffWorld of Pasadena, California, who are “developing a new generation of universal industrial robots to do the heavy lifting on Earth, […]

What: Tell your family and friends! UND Aerospace is hosting “Aerospace Community Day” – a day full of fun and prizes! The event is free to attend, open to all ages, and bound to be a good time! Tour the facilities and stamp your Aerospace Passport at various hands-on stations, fly spacecraft and aircraft simulators, […]

North Dakota is influencing the NASA program.  See a local television interview of SpSt M.S. alum Jon Rask here.

As a result of a recent presentation given by Jon Rask (SpSt MS ’01) at the North Dakota Heritage Center at Bismarck, North Dakota, the Mandan News newspaper published an article about Jon’s North Dakota roots.  Jon presented a talk that included information about the NDX-2 spacesuit, module development and testing, and his collaboration with […]

Click here for link to Adam’s story.

Jennifer Heldmann, a Research Scientist at the Planetary Systems Branch (SST) of NASA, recently participated in the White House event “Exploring Space in the President’s Place”.  See more details and photos here.

Check out the Popular Science article that features several stories of the “coolest day jobs in the world”.  The second article, “Going for Boeing”, is written about recent UND Aerospace Science Ph.D. grad Kavya Manyapu, and her testing of the new Boeing Starliner space suit and necessary waste management.

Yan Lavallée (M.S. SpSt 2003) was recently awarded the Wager Medal by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior. This is one of the most prestigious awards a mid-career scientist can receive in volcanology. The Wager Medal honors the memory of Professor Lawrence Rickard Wager of the University of Oxford, United […]

U.S. News & World Report — in its highly regarded best colleges lists for 2018 – has included UND with some extremely lofty company in the publication’s “25 Most Innovative Schools” rankings. In this particular set of rankings, UND joins Harvard, Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on its short list of schools […]