Honors

The University of North Dakota enjoyed its most successful season of competition at the Division I level in 2016-17, including four regular-season conference championships, one playoff championship and multiple national postseason appearances. UND’s student-athletes also managed to match that level […]

University of North Dakota senior sprinter/hurdler Jared Michel has been named to the 2016-17 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District™ Men’s and Women’s Track & Field/Cross Country Team, as voted by the nation’s sports information directors. It’s the […]

The School of Medicine and Health Sciences presented the Dean’s Special Recognition Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Faculty to the following physicians during commencement ceremonies on Sunday, May 14. Jacob A. Fish, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and alumnus (M.D. Class […]

Prakash Ranganathan, assistant professor of electrical engineering, has been selected to receive a Rockwell Collins research grant. The proposal, “Geo-Fence Detection System (GFDS) for Unmanned Aerial Vehicular Airspace to provide Counter Autonomy,” was funded for $25,000. Of the 45 proposals submitted, […]

Medical students of the M.D. Class of 2017 and faculty of the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences were recognized by the School at the Commencement Awards presentation on Sunday, May 14. The North Dakota Medical Association […]

Jill Shafer, assistant professor of Teaching and Learning, has been invited by the U.S. State Department Fulbright program to orient new Fulbright fellows who will serve in Subsaaran Africa in 2017 to 2018. The orientation will be in Washington, D.C. […]

Halli Krzyzaniak received the 2017 Best Honors Thesis award for “A Comprehensive Study of Female Hockey Players’ Use of Social Media to Attract Fans and Endorsements.” She worked with her Honors thesis committee chair, Soojung Kim, an assistant professor in Communication, […]

Adam Matz, assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, had an article accepted in the peer-reviewed journal Corrections: Policy, Practice and Research entitled, “A National Survey of Chief Probation/Parole Officers’ Perceived Interest in and Impact of Partnerships with Police.” […]

F. Richard Ferraro’s work was featured in the May 1 issue of Scientific American Mind. In “Twin Lamps?” he and his wife, Jacqueline Lee Foster Ferraro, discuss illusions and mirrors, along with perceptions of them. It’s available at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/making-impossible-objects-with-mirrors/.

At the annual meeting of the Society on Neuroimmune Pharmacology held this year in Philadelphia, Jonathan D. Geiger, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, started his term as […]