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February 25, 2015 Dr. Robert Kelley President University of North Dakota After what will be 16 ½ years as the Dean of the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, I have decided to retire effective June 30, 2016. I know this is somewhat early to make this announcement, but it is made in consideration […]

During August 2014 a five member research team from the Department of Geography (Dr. Greg Vandeberg, Christian Sovak, and Sami Swartz) and the Department of Earth System Science and Policy (Dr. Jeff VanLooy and Robbie MacDonald) at UND participated in a nine day field mission to Continental Glacier in the Wind River Range of Wyoming.  […]

The buoy measuring the water quality was launched in Devils Lake On Aug. 19, 2014. This is the 4th year of the field observation led by Dr. Xiaodong Zhang for monitoring both short- and long-term changes of water quality in Devils Lake. The real-time data acquired every 10 minutes can be accessed via http://www.wqdatalive.com/public/179. The launched […]

Dr. Andrei Kririlenko was awarded a UND Faculty Seed Money Award for the amount of $20,886 for his research project “People as sensors: Feasibility study on flood monitoring through Twitter communication data mining”.

Dr. Chris Zygarlicke (EERC), Dr. Xiaodong Zhang (ESSP), and Dr. Chad Wocken (EERS) have been awareded a UND Collaborative Research Seed Grant of $25,000 for their research project “Satellite Image Processing of Oil Production Flares”.

James “Jay” Nickson, a programmer for Academic Support Services at the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, has developed new search software that will make searching websites faster, easier and more accurate. Nickson’s program is of the type called “semantic URL handling”, according to Michael Sadler, legal and marketing assistant in the Office of […]

Who are the outstanding teachers and departments at UND?  You can help decide.  The nomination process is an easy, one-page electronic form at http://und.edu/academics/instructional-development/faculty-awards-nomination.cfm.  The form will also be linked to the UND homepage in October, and more information is available on the OID webpage under the “Programs” link. The Outstanding Faculty Awards Committee is now […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences Contact: Karen Ryba/Phone: 701-777-4761 July 17, 2008 Laguette Named Chair of UND’s Earth System Science and Policy Department (Grand Forks, North Dakota): Dr. Soizik Laguette has been named the new chair of Earth System Science and Policy (ESSP) at the John D. Odegard School of […]

Microsoft is retiring the Student Email System (Live@edu) and migrating all student email for the North Dakota University System to Microsoft Office 365.  Faculty and staff migrated to Office 365 during Fall 2012 and have been using it for the past 9 months. NDUS campuses have been migrating student email on different dates. The UND […]

The International Space Station Agricultural Camera (ISSAC), designed and operated by UND students, is helping NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) monitor impacts of change due to the recent Superstorm Sandy. Originally designed to image agricultural crops and other vegetation, the ISSAC sensor is nearing the end of its mission onboard the ISS, but […]