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Congratulations to fall 2014 graduate from the master’s program, Tiffany Swarmer!  Her academic and research journey is highlighted in the most recent University Letter, which can be found here.  Tiffany Swarmer received Space Grant funding during her graduate studies to complete a summer internship at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in 2013.

Dr. David Whalen was awarded the 9th Annual Mentor of the Year Award presented by the Society of Satellite Professionals International.  The Mentor Award honors those in the industry who devote the time and energy to nurture the next generation of satellite professionals, on which the future of the industry depends.  The award was presented […]

Space Studies graduate student Kam Yee recently had a publication accepted by the prestigious journal Space Policy.  The title of the published article is “America COMPETES Act’s effect on NASA’s Education and Public Outreach Programs” and can be accessed online here.

Space Studies Master’s student, Tiffany Swarmer, will defend her thesis as follows.  Please show your support by attending. When: Friday, December 5th at 3:30 pm (Central time) Where: Ryan Hall, Room 111 Title:  Human Performance Profiles for Planetary Analog Extra-Vehicular Activities: 120 Day and 30 Day Analog Missions About the Topic:  Understanding performance factors for future planetary […]

The three  member crew of the 30-day Lunar/Mars analog mission exited the habitat on November 6th. Watch a UND Studio One video here.

Space Studies Master’s student, Tyler Hill, will defend his thesis as follows.  Please show your support by attending. When: Friday, December 5th at 8:30 am (Central time) Where: Ryan Hall, Room 111 Title:  Development of a Prototype Movement Assistance System for Extravehicular Activity Gloves About the Topic:  Spacesuits utilized a rubberized layer of material to contain a […]

Launch was a success! Congratulations to teams for this year’s Near-Space Balloon Competition!  This year’s participants are: Kindred High School: Team Royal Diamond   Kindred High School: Team Spatato   May-Port CG Middle & High School: Team MPCG Science Geeks   Northwood Middle School: Team Thunderstruck   Red River High School: Team Polaris   Shiloh […]

The fall semester Brown Bag Seminar Series features graduate students providing presentations on their current research and recent internships.  The series continues on Wednesday, December 3rd, featuring grad student Anne Longlet presenting “Dust Mitigation on the James Webb Space Telescope.” This series of presentations will be held in the Space Studies Library at noon.  Lunch […]

The fall semester Brown Bag Seminar Series features graduate students providing presentations on their current research and recent internships.  The series continues on Wednesday, November 19th, featuring grad student Tim Buli presenting “NASA Technology Transfer Initiative and the Technology Transfer Program at Johnson Space Center (JSC).” This series of presentations will be held in the […]

Three University of North Dakota students have received prestigious scholarships from the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) at the NBAA National Convention in Orlando, Fla.  The UND students received the Lawrence Ginocchio Aviation Scholarship and are listed as follows: ·         Dana Atkins- is a junior at UND, majoring in aviation management.  Atkins’s career goal is […]