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Party with the stars this Friday! It’s a sight like no other—if the weather is right. The University of North Dakota Department of Space Studies again will host one of its popular Star Parties starting at dusk Friday, Sept. 18, at the new Space Studies Observatory site near Emerado, N.D. Sunset Friday in this region […]

The fall semester Brown Bag Seminar Series features graduate students providing presentations on their current research and recent internships.  The series begins on Wednesday, September 16th, featuring grad student Chris Buelke presenting “Water Purification Technology Development at NASA Langley Research Center”. This series of presentations will be held in the Space Studies Library at noon.  […]

The University of North Dakota Chapter of Women in Aviation, International (WAI) has announced that a free program is offered to local girls ages 13-19 years to introduce them to the possibilities available in a career in aviation. The day’s activities will take place at Clifford Hall on the UND Campus from 1:00-5:00pm on Saturday, […]

  The North Dakota Space Grant Consortium, in collaboration with Mayville State University (MSU), will be holding an educator workshop for in-service teachers this fall.  The focus of the workshop will be on space sciences and hands-on investigations for the classroom.  Workshop activities are primarily from the PBS Show SciGirls, but will also have a […]

2017 Word NSBC book The 2015 Near-Space Balloon Competition is now accepting proposals!   For more in-depth information and more updates, visit the NSBC website: http://blogs.und.edu/nsbc/   NASA plans to launch a crewed mission to Mars by 2035 and they need your help.  The 2015 Near-Space Balloon Competition (NSBC) invites teams to propose a pre-cursor Mars […]

Lydia Wiff has been awarded the 2015-2016 Globalair.com Calvin L. Carrithers Aviation Scholarship.  Her writing skills and determination to work in the aviation field exemplify the next generation of aviator we feel will make a contribution to the aviation industry. Notified by:  Jeffrey A. Carrithers, President, Globalair.com

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Dr. Gretchen Mullendore, Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, has received a grant in the amount of $168,182 from the National Science Foundation entitled “Collaborative Research: SI2-SSI: Big Weather Web: A Common and Sustainable Big Data Infrastructure in Support of Weather Prediction Research and Education in Universities”. Under this award, Gretchen will be working with scientists […]

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The UND Citation II Research Aircraft, dubbed UND Cloud One, returned to Grand Forks earlier this week after a two week mission over the skies of Florida. “We studied thunderstorm anvils, sampling the clouds up to an altitude of 40,000 ft,” said David Delene, associate research professor and principal investigator on this mission. The storm […]