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Future problem solvers at work

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Students standing in front of design poster at expo

Visitors to the Memorial Union Ballroom on Tuesday, May 2 might have encountered an electric bicycle zooming across their path, before noticing a large rocket standing in a corner, robotic devices, a small bridge and a race car simulator, among myriad other displays.

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Rare earth elements: North Dakota’s diamonds in the rough

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Two UND researchers in a laboratory

Refining REEs can boost national security while transforming North Dakota’s economy, UND researchers say It’s truly amazing that something can come from nothing. Or almost nothing — meaning a substance that scientists measure in grams can be so important to global manufacturing and the national defense of the United States. In early April, two UND […]

Ensuring astronauts’ health in the weightlessness of space

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Dr. Tavakolian, director of the biomedical engineering program at the University of North Dakota College of Engineering & Mines, has been co-leading groundbreaking research on space travel’s effects on astronauts’ cardiorespiratory systems. He and his team have been working on the CARDIOBREATH project, tracking changes in how astronauts’ cardiovascular and respiratory systems control their blood pressure.

Geological engineering graduate student awarded NSF-GRFP Fellowship

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Michaela L. Neal, a graduate student in the UND Geological Engineering program, was awarded a 2023 National Science Foundation-Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP). She applied under Geosciences-Hydrology as her GRFP field of study. Previously, Michaela earned her B.S. in Environmental Studies, with a minor in math, from UND. The purpose of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship […]

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UND SOaRS symposium’s flight plan: Make most of stratosphere

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Man speaks at podium

Robert Kraus, dean of the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, speaks at the inaugural SOaRS symposium. Photo by Adam Kurtz/UND Today Inaugural symposium brings scholars, government officials and industry representatives together On March 21 and 22, UND brought together academics, government officials and aerospace industry manufacturers all facing the same desire: developing the […]