John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences

Deborah Dooley, Space Studies alum (2009) is one of the lucky people who will be temporarily transferred to Florida next year (2013) for the first unmanned test flight of the ORION multi-purpose crew vehicle.  Dooley will be working assembly, test, and launch operations, affectionately known as “ATLO”.   She considers this an opportunity of a life time […]

Dear students, alumni and others interested in Aerospace Sciences Ph.D., I am happy to inform you that the North Dakota Board of Higher Education met yesterday, and as per the informal information we have, approved the Aerospace Ph.D. program at University of North Dakota. Once we receive the official confirmation, a formal announcement will be […]

Space Studies online master’s student, Marc Fusco, will give his thesis proposal presentation as follows.  Please mark your calendars and show your support by attending. When: Thursday, March 8th at 4:00 p.m. Where: Ryan Hall, Room 111 Title:  Presidents, Politics, and Policy: How the Apollo and Space Shuttle Decisions Shaped NASA I propose a study […]

Space Studies online master’s student, Elizabeth Howell, will give her thesis proposal presentation as follows.  Please mark your calendars and show your support by attending. When: Monday, February 27th at noon Where: Ryan Hall, Room 132  – PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE Title:  Caution Light: The Anik E2 Solar Disruption, and its Effect on Telesat Canada […]

Lt. Col. William Burke Hare III, a U.S. Air Force space and missile operator and 1995 UND alumus, was recently inducted into the Space Camp Hall of Fame. Hare, who holds a master’s degree from UND’s Department of Space Studies, is chief of operations for the Flight Test Execution Directorate at the Missile Defense Agency […]

The Graduate School’s 2012 Scholarly Forum will be held in the Memorial Union on Monday 27 February and Tuesday 28th February at the River Valley Room at the Memorial Union. The Forum will showcase more than 70 oral presentations and panels, as well as 80 posters and an art exhibit. Oral presentations beginning at 9:10 […]

The Spring 2012 Space Studies Colloquium Series focuses on the general theme “Consequences of a Growing Dependency on Space Technology ” and will feature several leading experts in the field. The second presentation in this series will feature Thaddeus Johnson, GOES Attitude Control Engineer, for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Topic:  “How Science […]

UND has been named one of the “Top Military-Friendly Colleges & Universities” by Military Advanced Education (MAE) magazine for the second consecutive year. In its fifth Annual Guide, MAE honored UND as one of fewer than 300 schools which specifically cater to the military community. “This is a wonderful achievement for UND and it comes […]

The UND Observatory is taking applications from students interested in a Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) position at the UND Observatory beginning the Fall 2012 semester. Please see the description of responsibilities here. This position is funded by the North Dakota Space Grant  Consortium. If you are interested in this position, please submit a well-written 1-2 […]

Space Studies professor Ronald Fevig and two student teams have proposed for and successfully won spots on the NASA High Altitude Student Platform (HASP) flight. The HASP program launches student team payloads on a NASA zero-pressure high altitude balloon allowing them to fly at an altitude of approximately 120,000 feet for fifteen to twenty hours. […]