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Matthew Wallace has been named the new executive director of the North Dakota Museum Art, following the retirement of founding Director Laurel Reuter. Wallace grew up on the family farm south of Devils Lake, N.D., on the Spirit Lake Reservation. He received a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of North Dakota. While at […]

Civil Engineering Associate Professor Feng “Frank” Xiao, has been appointed as an editor of Journal of Hazardous Materials. With an impact factor of >10, Journal of Hazardous Materials (JHM) is a flagship journal in the areas of environmental/chemical engineering and science. The journal received approximately 14,000 submissions in 2021. The current acceptance rate of this […]

The UND Law Trial Team of Kirsten Allen (2L), Haylee Borgen (3L), and Anna Ingersoll (3L) emerged as the champions of the National Trial Competition for Region 12 held virtually February 18-20. They now advance to nationals in Fort Worth, Texas, beginning March 30, to be one of 30 law school teams from around the […]

Social Work faculty Isaac Karikari, Carenlee Barkdull and Bret Weber, along with UND social work alumnus Reggie Tarr, site supervisor for resettlement services with Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota, have co-authored a chapter in the Social Workers’ Desk Reference, fourth ed.  The title of the chapter is “Effective Practice with Refugees Using a Social […]

Diana D’Amico Pawlewicz, assistant professor in educational foundations & research and a historian of education and social policy, has been awarded a research grant from one of the most prestigious funders in Education Research, The Spencer Foundation. Her grant award is titled “Racialized Experiences of Black Applicants in the Teacher Labor Market.” More information on […]

Ten students from the University of North Dakota Wind Ensemble performed with the 20th annual North Dakota Intercollegiate Band this year. They joined with music students from seven other North Dakota colleges and universities in Jamestown for rehearsals and a performance Feb. 25 and 26. Rebecca Phillips, Director of Bands at Colorado State University, served […]

Civil Engineering Associate Professor Feng “Frank” Xiao, has been appointed as an editor of Journal of Hazardous Materials. With an impact factor of >10, Journal of Hazardous Materials (JHM) is a flagship journal in the areas of environmental/chemical engineering and science. The journal received approximately 14,000 submissions in 2021. The current acceptance rate of this […]

A new grant to UND Aerospace from the Federal Aviation Administration will connect high school teachers throughout the state with flight, drones and North Dakota’s aviation industry. The $500,000 grant, an 18-month workforce development effort, aims to engage STEM teachers by giving them the tools and means by which to teach students about careers in […]

Xusheng Wang, assistant professor of biology, and his lab in the Department of Biology recently published a paper in Nature Communications titled, “SMAP is a pipeline for sample matching in proteogenomics.” Large-scale omics studies hold the promise of advancing the in-depth understanding of human disease. Mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics has emerged as an important molecular […]

North Dakota is No. 1 in the nation for honey production and No. 2 in oil production, but also ranks third in incidents of Parkinson’s disease. Within three minutes of that opening statement, Ph.D. student Rabie Fadil made his case for a new type of medical device and secured a first-place finish at UND’s 2022 […]

Mark Hoffmann, associate dean for research at UND’s College of Arts & Sciences and Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for distinguished contributions to chemistry. Hoffmann is an internationally recognized expert in quantum chemistry, a powerful tool that’s used to […]

You can take the girl off the farm, but you can’t take the farm from the girl. A new book published by The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, “Mindful Wandering: Nature and Global Travel through the Eyes of a Farmgirl Scientist” by Rebecca J. Romsdahl, takes the reader from a Minnesota farm […]

David Krause, procurement & business analyst in procurement & payment services, has obtained his certification as a Certified Professional Public Buyer offered by The Universal Public Procurement Certification Council. This highly regarded certification, recognized worldwide, requires education, training and employment experience, as well as eligibility requirements that are validated via an application process. Knowledge, skills and […]

Isaac Karikari, assistant professor of social work and MSW program director, along with Grace Karikari, teaching assistant professor of public heath, and Eric Kyere from Indiana University, have published “Differential impact, differential adjustments: diverse experiences of the COVID‑19 pandemic by college students in an Upper‑Midwestern University, USA,” in SN Social Sciences, a research journal. “As […]

A team of UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) biomedical researchers affiliated with North Dakota’s IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) has received a collaboration award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Emily Biggane, Ph.D., research faculty at United Tribes Technical College […]