{"id":177,"date":"2018-10-01T21:12:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T21:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/cobpa-faculty-research\/?p=177"},"modified":"2018-10-01T21:13:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T21:13:26","slug":"jonathon-nord-wins-student-manuscript-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/cobpa-faculty-research\/2018\/10\/01\/jonathon-nord-wins-student-manuscript-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathon Nord Wins Student Manuscript of the Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_178\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-178\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/cobpa-faculty-research\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/jonathon-nord.jpg\" alt=\"jonathon-nord\" width=\"173\" height=\"215\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathon Nord<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jonathon Nord, a graduate student from the University of North Dakota, won this year\u2019s national Pi Alpha Alpha Master\u2019s Student Manuscript of the Year Award from the Washington, D.C.-based Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA).<\/p>\n<p>Nord\u2019s winning thesis is titled \u201cDiffusion of Ideas in UAS [unmanned aircraft systems] Regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nord\u2014who graduated from Grand Forks Red River High School in 2012\u2014earlier this year completed his Master\u2019s of Public Administration program in the UND College of Business &amp; Public Administration (CoBPA). After transferring to UND from another school, he connected with the UND MPA program director Dana Harsell, who encouraged him to pursue the advanced degree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI chose UAS for my topic because, being from Grand Forks, I was familiar with this technology,\u201d Nord said. \u201cI knew that UAS technology was going to grow, and that sparked my interest at the policy level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must solve many tough problems around UAS that affect all of us,\u201d Nord said. \u201cMy research showed me that it\u2019s best to sit down and start constructive discussion to support changes, rather than always fight them, for maximum benefit with least amount of pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His thesis advisors were Dana Harsell and Robert Wood, from the CoBPA Department of Political Science &amp; Public Administration. Nord currently works at Altru Health Services in Grand Forks.<\/p>\n<p>Nord credited Harsell for submitting his thesis to the awarding organization. Nord was invited to the group\u2019s national conference in Atlanta, GA, this past October, to pick up his award.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">by: Juan Pedraza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathon Nord, a graduate student from the University of North Dakota, won this year\u2019s national Pi Alpha Alpha Master\u2019s Student Manuscript of the Year Award from the Washington, D.C.-based Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA). Nord\u2019s winning thesis is titled \u201cDiffusion of Ideas in UAS [unmanned aircraft systems] Regulation.\u201d Nord\u2014who graduated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recognition"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jonathon Nord Wins Student Manuscript of the Year Award - Nistler CoBPA Faculty Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/cobpa-faculty-research\/2018\/10\/01\/jonathon-nord-wins-student-manuscript-of-the-year-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jonathon Nord Wins Student Manuscript of the Year Award - Nistler CoBPA Faculty Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jonathon Nord, a graduate student from the University of North Dakota, won this year\u2019s national Pi Alpha Alpha Master\u2019s Student Manuscript of the Year Award from the Washington, D.C.-based Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA). 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