The State of North Dakota is awarded funding each year for AmeriCorps and is excited to fund new projects. The workshop will focus on the AmeriCorps funding and information on other opportunities that the Corporation for National and Community Service […]
Research
Applications due Nov. 1 for epigenetics CoBRE pilot grant program; open to basic science, clinical, translational and population health faculty
The UND CoBRE for Epigenomics of Development and Disease is announcing a new pilot grant program for 2019/2020. The funding opportunity is a short-term pilot grant program that is designed to allow researchers to generate preliminary data using epigenomics platforms in […]
Proposals for post-doctoral funding program due Nov. 15
The UND Office of the Vice President for Research & Economic Development (VPRED) is organizing a fourth round of post-doctoral seed funding in collaboration with colleges/schools and research units across the University. The program will provide salary (up to $45,000), […]
UND awarded $6.5 million to extract rare earth elements from North Dakota lignite coal
The University of North Dakota has been awarded $6.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy and other project sponsors to build a pilot plant that will extract rare earth elements – components used for everything from cell phones to […]
Feng Xiao receives Early Career Award to address key health-pollution issue
Feng Xiao Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Feng “Frank” Xiao has been named one of only three researchers in the country to receive a highly competitive Early Career Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) STAR program to address a […]
Saobo Lei awarded five-year, $1.5 million R01 grant from NIH to study anxiety
Saobo Lei, professor in the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Department of Biomedical Sciences, has been awarded a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The prestigious R01 class grant, which is funded through the […]
Chen and Geiger awarded $2.2 million R01 grant from National Institutes of Mental Health
The National Institute of Mental Health, a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded an R01 grant titled “Tat endolysosome escape and HIV-1 associated neurocognitive disorder” to Drs. Xuesong Chen and Jonathan Geiger. Both are faculty members in […]
Register by Aug. 10 for annual Host-Pathogen CoBRE Symposium, set for Sept. 17
The Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (CoBRE) for Host-Pathogen Interactions is inviting UND faculty, staff, and graduate and undergraduate students to attend the Annual Host-Pathogen CoBRE Symposium to be held at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & […]
Massachusetts-based Physical Sciences Inc. partners with UND to test weather-measuring UAS payload
UND recently provided Massachusetts-based Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) the advanced platform, authorization and flight excellence to test its compact laser hygrometer, developed for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The hygrometer, built to measure ambient water vapor density, air […]
Bee Innovative matches up with UND and state known for drones, sunflowers and honeybees
What do you get when you combine the top sunflower-producing state in the U.S. with the top state for honeybees and an innovative Australian startup company collaborating with the University of North Dakota, one of the nation’s leading universities for […]
UND chemists’ research catches big air
Alena Kubatova What was to be Brett Nespor’s master’s thesis, expounding on an air study done nearly five years before he arrived on campus, morphed into an invaluable endeavor that could alter the conventions of chemical research. Utilizing and optimizing a method […]
‘All of Us’ Journey Exhibit to visit Grand Forks June 17-21
The ‘All of Us’ journey traveling research exhibit, sponsored by the UND College of Nursing and Professional Disciplines, is visiting the area June 17-21. The exhibit visits communities nationwide to raise awareness about the All of Us research program and […]
Applications due June 6 for Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences
The Division of Research and Economic Development is pleased to announce an internal competition for applicants to the 2020 Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences award. The University is only allowed to submit one application to this highly competitive […]
Five faculty receive interdisciplinary NSF grant
Feng Xiao and Naima Kaabouch from the College of Engineering & Mines, Xiaodong Zhang from John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, and Julia Xiaojun Zhao and Deborah Worley from the College of Education & Human Development were recently awarded […]
Rural Health Grand Challenge team seeks summer research proposals
The University of North Dakota Rural Health and Communities Grand Challenge Team is soliciting applications from faculty to support UND’s research activities, and external funding capacity, to address the unique health and social problems of rural communities. (One UND, Goal 4). This […]