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Wendelin Hume receives funding from peace and nonviolence endowment

Tanya Butler Honors December 7, 2020December 7, 2020
Wendelin Hume

Wendelin Hume Wendelin Hume, associate professor of criminal justice, has been awarded funding from the Joyce and Aqueil Ahmad Endowment for Promotion of Peace and Nonviolence. Dr. Hume’s proposal, “Lessening Violence by Promoting Community Conversations and Awareness about Race and Peaceful Policies,” […]

Arts & Humanities faculty receive scholarship awards

Tanya Butler Honors December 7, 2020

In support of the important creative activity and scholarship of faculty in the fine arts and humanities, and in alignment with its strategic plan, the College of Arts & Sciences recently awarded the following Fine Arts & Humanities Scholarship Grants […]

Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity awards announced

Tanya Butler Honors November 30, 2020

Funded by a generous endowment established by UND alumni Suezette Rene Bieri, ’69, ’70, ‘89 and Mike Jacobs, ’70, ‘14, the Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity Awards provide undergraduate students with research and creative activity experiences that […]

UND engineering team wins geothermal manufacturing prize, advances to next level

Jan Orvik Honors November 3, 2020
UND engineering team wins geothermal manufacturing prize, advances to next level

Drawing of the Pipeline Interventions Gadget designed by the Dreamer Geothermophiles to reduce mineral buildup in pipelines. Image courtesy of Dreamer Geothermoophiles A UND engineering team has won funding in a geothermal manufacturing competition, along with an invitation to advance to […]

Grad student published as lead author in Sports Medicine Journal

Jan Orvik Honors October 27, 2020
In this 2018 file photo, Trevor Dufner (center), a graduate student in kinesiology, works with UND student-athletes in the Hyslop Sports Center weight room. UND archival image.

In this 2018 file photo, Trevor Dufner (center), a graduate student in kinesiology, works with UND student-athletes in the Hyslop Sports Center weight room. UND archival image. The thesis project for a UND graduate student in kinesiology has been published by […]

Doctoral student Maylynn Warne selected for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation scholars program

Jan Orvik Honors October 20, 2020October 20, 2020
Maylynn Warne

Maylynn Warne Maylynn Riding In Warne, Educational Foundations and Research Ph.D. student, has been selected to participate in one of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s leadership programs. These programs connect changemakers across the country—from every profession and field—to help them learn from […]

Small Business Development Center has ties to several Governor’s Choice Award winners

Marnie Schuschke Honors October 13, 2020
Small Business Development Center has ties to several Governor’s Choice Award winners

Last week, as part of the Economic Development Association of North Dakota fall conference, Gov. Doug Burgum announced the recipients of the 2020 Governor’s Choice Economic Development Awards. The ND SBDC is pleased to have a connections with three of […]

Sports Physical Therapy Residency granted 10-year reaccreditation

Jan Orvik Honors September 29, 2020September 29, 2020
Sports Physical Therapy Residency granted 10-year reaccreditation

Associate professor of physical therapy Dr. Gary Schindler (right) explains the finer points of foot mechanics at the UND Biped Lab in 2019 as Department of Physical Therapy Chair Dave Relling (left) looks on. The coordinators of the UND School of […]

Rural Health Research Gateway receives federal funding

Jan Orvik Honors September 21, 2020

Rural Health Research Gateway, an online library of rural research, recently received funding of $135,000, from the Health Resources & Services Administration. Gateway is an online library providing access to research and findings of the Federal Office of Rural Health […]

UND student rings NASDAQ bell

Jan Orvik Honors September 8, 2020
Pierson Painter, an Entrepreneurship and Marketing double major from Grand Forks, stands beside a company vehicle for his Dakota Lawn & Landscape business. Image courtesy of Pierson Painter.

Pierson Painter, an Entrepreneurship and Marketing double major from Grand Forks, stands beside a company vehicle for his Dakota Lawn & Landscape business. Image courtesy of Pierson Painter. At 3 p.m. Central on Sept. 2, UND’s Nistler College of Business & […]

Gordon Iseminger, retired UND history professor, receives State Historical Society of North Dakota’s top award

Jan Orvik Honors September 8, 2020
Gordon Iseminger, retired UND history professor, receives State Historical Society of North Dakota’s top award

“As a student of history myself, I have very few regrets in life,” said the speaker in the tribute video to Gordon Iseminger, retired UND history professor. “But one regret I do have is that as someone who went to North […]

Office of Rural Health receives federal funding

Jan Orvik Honors September 3, 2020September 3, 2020

The State Office of Rural Health (SORH) will be able to provide additional support to North Dakota thanks to increased funding from Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP). Annual funding increased to $230,000 this year, allowing for additional services to […]

Donors provide stethoscopes to new med students through Adopt-A-Med-Student program

Jan Orvik Honors September 3, 2020September 8, 2020

The UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) Adopt-a-Med-Student Program celebrated its 10th year this week by providing 67 engraved stethoscopes to first-year medical students in the MD Class of 2024. “It’s awesome,” said first-year med student Ajdin Ekic of […]

UND receives professional association award for steam plant project

Jan Orvik Honors August 19, 2020

The University of North Dakota has received the 2020 Sustainability Innovation Award for their public-private partnership with Johnson Controls to build a new steam plant. The award is from APPA, a professional association for facilities management professionals in education. The Sustainability […]

Rosemary Pleva Flynn receives national award for compiling new dictionary

Jan Orvik Honors August 17, 2020August 18, 2020
Rosemary Pleva Flynn receives national award for compiling new dictionary

Rosemary Pleva Flynn Rosemary Pleva Flynn, principal librarian and archivist at the UND Energy & Environmental Research Center, chairs an archivists group which received a Council Exemplary Service Award from her professional association, the Society of American Archivists (SAA). The SAA Dictionary […]

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