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UND Space Studies students and faculty will be working alongside first and seventh-grade student teams to launch and track two high-altitude balloons Friday, May 17, from the Red River Valley Fairgrounds in West Fargo, N.D. The High-Altitude Balloon Launch is sponsored by the North Dakota Space Grant Consortium. The public is encouraged to attend and […]

Suezette Bieri will be retiring after more than 21 years of service to UND. Suezette earned several degrees at UND: a B.A. in Sociology-Anthropology, a M.A. in Counseling and Guidance, and was one of the first to earn a M.S. in Space Studies.  She has been employed in the Department of Space Studies, serving as […]

The North Dakota Legislature is in session, so on February 7, the Department of Space Studies and the North Dakota Space Grant Consortium put up space displays in the Great Hall of the State Capitol in Bismarck. Entitled “Space on the Prairie,” the posters and handouts advertised NASA activities in the state. Each legislator received […]

Suezette Bieri, Education Program Coordinator, is retiring on March 15th after 22 years of service to the North Dakota Space Grant Consortium. We are now in the process of finding a suitable replacement for Suezette. If you, or someone you know,  may be suitable and interested in the position, please ask him/her to respond to […]

Students of the University of North Dakota`s Department of Space Studies and the NASA North Dakota Space Grant Consortium are holding the second annual Near-Space Balloon Competition (NSBC). Full article

The North Dakota Space Grant Consortium (NDSGC) recently received $860,000 from NASA’s Department of Education to promote STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) North Dakota colleges through “hands on” student projects, scholarships and fellowships for students, summer internships at NASA centers and seed research. ND Space Grant is a statewide program and all colleges and […]

On September 1, 2012, The University of North Dakota and the University of North Florida collaboratively flew a payload onboard the High Altitude Student Platform (HASP).   The HASP is an 11.82 million-cubic foot zero-pressure balloon that reached an altitude of 124,000 feet! HASP launched from the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF) in Ft. Sumner, New […]

Three graduate students in Space Studies have started summer internships funded by the North Dakota Space Grant Consortium. They are: Katrina Jackson at Goddard Space Flight Center; Brad Schanche at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; and Jonathan Schiralli at the Helio Research Observatory in La Crescenta, California.

The UND Observatory is taking applications from students interested in a Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) position at the UND Observatory beginning the Fall 2012 semester. Please see the description of responsibilities here. This position is funded by the North Dakota Space Grant  Consortium. If you are interested in this position, please submit a well-written 1-2 […]

Santhosh Seelan and Suezette Rene Bieri attended the Western Regional Space Grant Meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska in August. In addition to attending all the sessions they saw Mount McKinley and drove north of the Arctic Circle. Suezette Rene Bieri and Santhosh Seelan attended the National Meeting of Space Grant Directors in Green Bay, Wisconsin held […]