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The fall semester Brown Bag Seminar Series features graduate students providing presentations on their current research or recent internships. This series of presentations will be held in the Space Studies Library at noon.  Please join us with your own “brown bag” lunch. Our second presentation in this series will feature Steven Russell on Wednesday, November 13th at noon. Presentation […]

Space Studies Aerospace Sciences PhD candidate, Tyler Linder, will present his dissertation proposal as follows. Please show your support by attending. When: Thursday, November 7th at 3:30 p.m. (Central time zone) Where:  Ryan Hall, room 111 Title: “Ambiguous Taxonomic Asteroid Research” About the topic:  The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) serendipitously observed asteroids during their North Galactic Cap survey. SDSS […]

The first international mission in UND’s Inflatable Mars/Lunar Habitat (IMLH) was launched on October 2nd when four students from Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Peru entered the facility to spend two weeks running experiments to help NASA with exploring the moon and Mars. Read the entire UND Today article here.

Space Studies Master’s student, Steven Newcomb, will present his thesis proposal as follows. When: Thursday, October 17th at 9:00 a.m. (Central DST) Where:  Clifford Hall, Room 521 – Space Studies Conference Room Title: “Photometric and Astrometric Analysis of Near-Earth Objects” About the topic:  The proposed research focuses on astrometric and photometric observation of two Near-Earth asteroids.   It will be conducted […]

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine lauds University’s aerospace research by, Patrick Miller NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine visited the UND John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences earlier this month to learn about research being conducted there for the agency and to discuss future collaborations. Photo by Patrick C. Miller/UND Today. In a visit to UND recently, […]

UND, ND Space Grant hosts video chat between girls’ STEM camp and NASA astronaut in space Middle-schoolers from the Grand Forks recently came to UND to receive a call … from space! The North Dakota Space Grant Consortium hosted a live downlink with NASA astronaut Christian Koch, currently aboard the International Space Station, on Aug. […]

A feature article highlighting three Space Studies MS students’ summer internships made news on the NASA Johnson Space Center homepage recently.  Check out the full article here.

Moon mission still resonates by, Patrick Miller Pablo de León, director of the University of North Dakota Human Spaceflight Laboratory and head of the Department of Space Studies, knows exactly what impact the moon landing had on him 50 years ago. He was a child living on a farm in Argentina on July 20, 1969, […]

Through a partnership of PBS’ SciGirls program and NASA, the ND Space Grant Consortium has participated in a live downlink from the International Space Station, with astronaut Christina Koch on August 19th. Twenty middle school girls from the Grand Forks area participated in an afterschool SciGirls space camp throughout the spring of 2019, where they […]

Several samples of material prototypes from the UND Aerospace Sciences Ph.D. research work done by Dr. Kavya Manyapu were recently on display at the “Wired to Wear” exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) in Chicago, IL, as part of their recent Apollo 50th Anniversary displays.  This was the first ever exhibit dedicated […]