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Space Studies master’s student, Daniel Wallace, will defend his thesis as follows.  All Space Studies students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend.  Please show your support! When:  Thursday, April 30th at 3:30 p.m. (Central DST) Where:  Ryan Hall, Room 111 Title: An Investigation of Six Poorly Described Close Visual Double Stars Using Speckle Interferometry About […]

The Spring 2015 Space Studies Colloquium Series focuses on the NASA Discovery Program–the development of a planetary science mission– and will feature several leading experts in the field.  Our special guest scheduled for April 22nd is off-topic, but is a leading expert in the field of remote sensing. This presentation will feature Dr. Prasad S. Thenkabail, […]

The Spring 2015 Space Studies Colloquium Series will focus on the NASA Discovery Program–the development of a planetary science mission– and will feature several leading experts in the field. The next presentation in this series will feature  Craig R. Tooley, Project Manager of the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. […]

Space Studies master’s student, Iva Gerasimenko, will defend her thesis as follows.  All Space Studies students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend.  Please show your support! When:  Monday, April 20th at 8:30 am (Central DST) Where:  Ryan Hall, Room 111 Title: Identifying “Bad” Asteroid Spectra: A Cross-Correlative Database Study About the topic: Spectral reflectance data can […]

The March 30th issue of Space News features a profile article on Joanne Gabrynowicz, J.D., titled Space Law 101: Filling the Legal Vacuum.  Joanne was a member of the original Space Studies faculty in 1987 and taught space law at UND until 2001.  This article may be found here.

The Spring 2015 Space Studies Colloquium Series will focus on the NASA Discovery Program–the development of a planetary science mission– and will feature several leading experts in the field. The fourth presentation in this series will feature  John Sloan, Senior Space Policy Analyst and Program Lead for International Outreach, Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Commercial […]

The Spring 2015 Space Studies Colloquium Series will focus on the NASA Discovery Program–the development of a planetary science mission– and will feature several leading experts in the field.   The third presentation in this series will feature  Dr. W. Bruce Banerdt – Principal Investigator, InSight Mission to Mars 321-B60, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA […]

Space Studies alum, Tiffany Swarmer (M.S. 2014), was featured in the recent issue of Alumni Review.  See the article here.  

Space Studies master’s student, Travis Nelson, will defend his thesis as follows.  All Space Studies students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend.  Please show your support! When:  Monday, March 23rd at 8:30am (Central time) Where:  Ryan Hall, Room 111 Title: 30 Day Lunar/Martian Planetary Habitation Analog: An Assessment of Crew Stress, Anxiety, and Performance About […]