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Emily Kringle, Ph.D., OTR/L, assistant professor of kinesiology and director of the disability and wellness (DWELL) laboratory at the University of Minnesota, took home the Early Career Research Excellence Award from the 2026 American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA ) conference recently. Kringle, who earned her Master of Occupational Therapy degree at UND, integrates her training […]

Grace Karikari, Ph.D., assistant professor in the SMHS Department of Indigenous Health, recently received the Rural and Environmental Research Award from the American Public Health Association (APHA) Aging & Public Health Section for her work titled “Caring for the Aging Population in Ghana: Knowledge, Beliefs, and Best Practices.” The APHA Awards Ceremony was held on Nov. […]

Steve Westereng, Chair of the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Department of Sports Medicine, is the latest Hall of Fame inductee for the North Dakota Athletic Trainers Association (NDATA). “I serve as the Chair of the NDATA Honors and Awards Committee and I’m usually involved in the process of giving the awards out,” […]

Everett Glower, a fourth-year biomedical sciences graduate student in Assistant Professor Benjamin Roche’s lab, won a poster award at the recent 12th International Fission Yeasts Meeting in Boston, Mass. Glower’s award winning poster was entitled “The Knob submodule of the mediator complex is essential for maintaining transcription initiation during quiescence.” In the lab, Glower assists […]

What would convince a born-and-raised Michigander to up and move to Minot, North Dakota? “I wanted adventure, and nothing says adventure like North Dakota,” smiled Dr. Lauren Wake, a psychiatric physician at Trinity Health in Minot, N.D. In the last year of her psychiatry residency in Detroit – 2021 – the former Michigan State Spartan […]

Several faculty and staff of the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) will be recognized at UND’s 2025 Founders Day banquet, to be held Thursday, Feb. 20, in the UND Memorial Union. Of particular note is that Dr. Archana Dhasarathy, associate professor in the School’s Department of Biomedical Sciences, will be honored by […]

The Simpler.Grants.gov team is thrilled to announce the launch of its new experimental search feature! As part of their ongoing efforts to modernize Grants.gov, the team is aiming to make it easier for you to find and apply for federal funding opportunities. With a simpler design and smarter algorithms, your search results will now be […]

The Grants Management team at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) has posted its fiscal year 2024 (FY24) research report. For FY24 (July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024) total research and sponsored funding at the SMHS was more than $32,500,000. Other highlights from the report include: Over the past decade, the […]

Dr. Mary Ann Sens, chair of the SMHS Department of Pathology, received a well-deserved Lifetime Service Award at the National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) annual meeting last week in Denver, Colo. According to a NAME statement, Sens was given the award “In appreciation for the countless hours of time, service and expertise that you […]

Dr. Kumi Nagamoto-Combs, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, and members of her research team attended IMMUNOLOGY 2024 earlier this month. At the international conference hosted by the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) in Chicago from May 3-7, a graduate student and a postdoctoral researcher from the Nagamoto-Combs lab presented their studies that received award recognitions. A postdoc in Nagamoto-Combs’s lab, Geetika Verma, […]