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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 […]

Space Studies master’s student, Paula Crock, will give her thesis proposal presentation as follows.  All Space Studies students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend. When:  Thursday, August 6th at 10 a.m. Where:  Clifford Hall, Room 521 (note location change) Title: Determining Glacier Drift Ages Using Multispectral and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data About the presenter:  Since graduating […]

After a year of effort, Dr. Paul Hardersen secured the first large donation to UND Space Studies by securing a $150,000 donation that will be delivered in the will of an anonymous donor. Although the funds — specifically dedicated to the Space Studies Observatory — will not arrive for some time to come, this donation […]

In June, Dr. Hardersen led and participated in three observing runs at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The three observing programs were all asteroid-related and included continuing efforts at constraining the abundance of basaltic asteroids in the main asteroid belt, along with programs to observe Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) and Kirkwood Gap main-belt […]

Dr. Hardersen led an education event in the Hamptons and Montauk, New York, in mid-July to highlight the Pluto flyby of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. Dr. Hardersen led discussions of the Pluto flyby, the controversy of Pluto’s status as a planet, and conducted star parties for a crowd primarily consisting of movers-and-shakers from the Manhattan […]

Arturo Ortiz, SpSt M.Sc. 2015, presented a technical paper at the 45th International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES), held at Seattle on July 12-16, 2015.  The paper was based on Ortiz’s M.Sc. thesis, and was coauthored with UND Associate Professors Vadim Rygalov and Pablo de León.  Dr. Rygalov was the thesis advisor. Ortiz, A. R., […]

The North Dakota Space Grant Consortium will develop a plan to interact with the International Space Station in 2016.  Read more information here.

A group of seven Space Studies students and alums were invited to the luncheon and address by former astronaut Buzz Aldrin at the Council of State Governments’ Midwestern Legislative Conference on Monday, July 13th. Read more about it here.

Space Studies is launching a new student bio website!!  This webpage will be included in the “People” menu at Space.edu. All current students will have access to submit a short bio and photo to showcase the varied backgrounds of all of our students, both online and on-campus.  This is voluntary, but we hope you will […]

The following degrees have been awarded for May graduation: M.S. in Space Studies Amy Bartlett, Jason Curra, Iva Gerasimenko, Daniela Henckel, Ari Jones, Manish Khatri, Anne Longlet, Travis Nelson, Rachael Nutting, Robert Oehmke, Arturo Ortiz, Charles (Greg) Simpson, Daniel Wallace, Ph.D. in Aerospace Science Our very first Ph.D. was awarded to David Kugler! Congratulations to […]