John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences

The 1st annual UND Observatory banquet and fundraiser is being organized and will occur on Monday, April 23, 2012, at the Hilton Garden Inn, Grand Forks, 5-10 pm in the combined Dahl/Buchli conference rooms. The event will feature local and NASA speakers, a silent auction, a buffet dinner, and an opportunity to promote astronomical and […]

Congratulations to Dr. Mike Gaffey who received word from NASA that his proposals to the Planetary Astronomy Program and the Near Earth Object Observations Program have been funded for $468,000 for the next three years. These funds will support Dr. Fieber-Beyer and Dr. Reddy as well as two graduate research assistantships. One portion of the […]

Dr. Jianglong Zhang, Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, has been selected by the National Space Club as the 2011 winner of NOAA David Johnson Award. This award is given annually to recognize achievements of young professionals who have shown outstanding innovation in the use of satellite data for operational environmental applications. The award citation reads: […]

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 first presentation in this series will feature Marc Cohen, of Cohen Astrotecture, Consulting and Design, Palo Alto, California Topic:  “Space Habitats: An Overview of […]

Dr. Jianglong Zhang, Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, has been selected by the National Space Club as the 2011 winner of NOAA David Johnson Award. This award is given annually to recognize achievements of young professionals who have shown outstanding innovation in the use of satellite data for operational environmental applications. The award citation reads: […]

Congratulations to the following students that were awarded their Master of Science degree at the UND December graduation: Greg Carras, Walt Eis, Gordon Gartrelle, Josh Nelson, Rowen Poole, and Lynn van Broock.

The Graduate School’s 2012 Scholarly Forum will be held in the Memorial Union on Monday 27 February and Tuesday 28th February. The Forum will showcase more than 70 oral presentations and panels, as well as 80 posters and an art exhibit. There will be a special Roundtable event on Monday at noon in the River […]

Two graduate students from the Department of Space Studies at UND, Annie Wargetz and Timothy Holland, are on a trip this week to the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) near Hanksville, Utah for field testing of the NDX-1 (North Dakota eXperimental-1) space suit. The NDX-1 is the only university-developed space suit in the United States. […]

UND Space Studies alum inducted in the Space Camp Hall of Fame Lt. Col. William Burke Hare III, a US Air Force space and missile operator and 1995 University of North Dakota alum, was recently inducted into the Space Camp Hall of Fame. Hare, who holds a master’s degree from UND’s Department of Space Studies, […]

Pablo de Leon and his staff have released the first of a monthly series of newsletters to report on the progress made on the projects at the UND Human Spaceflight Lab. Newsletter