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Johnathan Metz, 2015 B.S. graduate of UND Atmospheric Sciences, has been awarded the Father James B. Macelwane Award by the American Meteorological Society. The purpose of this award is to stimulate interest in meteorology among college students through the submission of original student papers concerned with some phase of the atmospheric sciences. This is a […]

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. The flights were sponsored by U.S. Navy as a key element of a project called CAPE2015. “We studied thunderstorm anvils, sampling the clouds up to an altitude of […]

National Space Grant Directors’ Council Meeting and the NASA EPSCoR Caucus meeting to take place at UND.  See more details here.

Funding awarded to ND Space Grant, NASA EPSCoR programming, and UND Human Spaceflight Lab director Dr. Pablo de Leon.  See more details here.

Dr. James Casler, Associate Professor, Department of Space Studies, will be the Acting Chair of the department in fall 2015, while Dr. Santhosh Seelan is on sabbatical leave. Dr. Casler, a former Marine Corps Test Pilot and an Aerospace Engineer, joined UND in 2007. He is a graduate of the Navy’s Test Pilot School and […]

The Department of Space Studies is pleased to announce the hiring of Michael Dodge, J.D., LL.M., to replace Dr. David Whalen on our full-time faculty.  Mr. Dodge will begin on August 16th.  We are happy to have his law expertise on faculty to teach courses in the field of space law, which will resume courses […]

The North Dakota Space Grant Consortium is happy to announce the hiring of Marissa Saad to support the expanding activities of the program. Marissa comes with a strong background and interest in promoting STEM education. Marissa Saad graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Astronomy and two minors […]

The University has successfully deployed an unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) from the Lakota, N.D., airport. This was the first time UND  has conducted UAS operations from a public general aviation airport. The flight test was conducted in connection with North Dakota’s Northern Plains Unmanned Aircraft Systems Test Site (NP UAS TS), designated as such by […]

The University of North Dakota Observatory recently became the beneficiary of a testamentary gift of $150,000. The gift was announced by observatory director and Space Studies faculty member Paul Hardersen. Space Studies is a part of the UND John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences. Hardersen, who has led significant modernization and upgrades since taking over […]

There is a new white paper for the eclipse ballooning event: Eclipse Ballooning White Paper Summer 2015   Powerpoint for 1/11/17 ballooning meeting   Cutdown Assembly Using the Cutdown Iridium Satellite Tracker Making a new SIM card with RFD  RFD setup and usage (part 1, part 2) Using the Pi as a computer Video payload […]