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Dr. Ron Fevig has been promoted to Associate Professor and granted tenure effective August 16, 2014. Congratulations!!!

Fall semester officially begins at 4:00 Central on Monday, August 25th. Regularly scheduled chat sessions will begin that evening. The first full day of daytime on-campus classes will begin on Tuesday, August 26th.

The 5th Annual Academic High Altitude Conference took place at UND on June 23-27.  The focus of this national conference is on the technical aspects, research possibilities, and educational benefits of high altitude ballooning.  The first two days included both a technical and educator’s workshop, followed by conference presentations and discussion sessions the remainder of the […]

Space Studies PhD student Kavya Manyapu of Boeing, earned a Stellar Award in the Early Career category for her exceptional commercial crew spacecraft test planning and flight test article design fidelity.  35 awards were given for 2014, out of a total of 164 nominations.  Congratulations to Manyapu on this incredible achievement. About the Stellar Award […]

David Delene Atmospheric Sciences – “Proof of Concept Cloud Condensation Nucleus Counter for Unmanned Aircraft Systems” – $99,739 Gretchen Mullendore and Michael Poellot Atmospheric Sciences – “Tropical Oceanic Thunderstorm Hazards” – $75,000 Mike Gaffey Space Studies – “Near Infrared Spectral Observations of 3:1 Kirkwood Gap and Gefion Family Asteroids” – $113,488

The International Astronomical Union has bestowed upon Sherry Fieber-Beyer an asteroid named in her honor. The Minor Planet Center released the following citation: “(14825) Fieber-Beyer = 1985 RQ Discovered 1985 Sept. 14 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory. Sherry K. Fieber-Beyer (b. 1975) is a post-doctoral researcher and Director […]

June 23-27, 2014, the University of North Dakota hosted the 5th Annual Academic High Altitude Conference.  The focus of this national conference is on the technical aspects, research possibilities, and educational benefits of high altitude ballooning.  The first two days included both a technical and educator’s workshop, followed by conference presentations and discussion sessions the […]

Dr. Santhosh Seelan was honored as a Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor at the Spring Commencement at UND.  The Chester Fritz Distinguished Professorships were established with an endowment gift from the late benefactor Chester Fritz.  The first Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor was named in 1973.  Just 73 individuals have been designated as such, 30 of whom […]

Space Studies faculty member Pablo de León and graduate students Lindsay Anderson and Tiffany Swarmer traveled to NASA Ames Research Center in mid-February to test the Human Spaceflight Laboratory’s DL/H-1 space suit in the centrifuge. The DL/H-1 is an Intravehicular Activity Suit (IVA) with emergency pressurization capabilities for any emergency Extravehicular Activity (EVA). The suit […]