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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.

UND atmospheric scientist Catherine Finley collaborates on groundbreaking tornado research by, Patrick Miller A state-of-the-art computer model simulating the supercell thunderstorms that spawn the largest and most destructive tornadoes have atmospheric scientists questioning the widely accepted concept of how tornadoes form. Photo courtesy of UND Atmospheric Sciences. What we think we know about how and […]

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, […]

UND welcomes international accreditation group by, Connor Murphy Thirty years ago, a small group of aviation-program administrators from colleges around the country flew in to Grand Forks and met at UND. It was a turning point in the recognition of aviation as a profession. Guy Smith, now president of Aviation Accreditation Board International (AABI), was […]

Where the bees are by, Patrick Miller Last week was the first time Paul Snyder, director of the UND Aerospace Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Program, got a firsthand look at technology from Australia that could help North Dakota sunflower farmers increase production through a process known as precision pollination. Kate and David Lyall, co-founders of an […]

Flight Academy takes cadets to new heights by, Connor Murphy Maybe it was the many early mornings she’d spent on the University of North Dakota flight line, or the seven weeks of intensive classroom and cockpit work that were leading her to a private pilot’s license. All she knew was that somewhere along the line, […]

First test site visit for ESSP faculty Haochi Zheng and student Jiyang Zhang near Bismarck, ND.       The field trip is the first time to check the two sunflower fields that the Australian company, Bee Innovative, identified for the experiment and to meet with them. The ESSP Department is collaborating with the Departments […]

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 […]

Framing the Green New Deal for Local Governance Rebecca Romsdahl,  July 16, 2019 Published in the “The Green New Deal: Pathways to a Low Carbon Economy” –  Public Administration Review, Bully Pulpit Symposium, (see number 10 in the listed commentaries) Summary: A vision for a more sustainable American future, titled The Green New Deal (GND), […]

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 […]