John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences Contact: Bob Concannon/Phone: 701-777-3611 July 24, 2008 Media Advisory UND Aerospace Announces Unmanned Aircraft System Fly Days (Grand Forks, North Dakota): The University of North Dakota (UND) John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences will be flying its own Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) at Camp […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences Contact: Mike Gaffey/Phone: 701-777-3167 July 15, 2008 Fieber-Beyer Awarded $90,000 to Characterize Asteroid Surfaces (Grand Forks, North Dakota): Sherry Fieber-Beyer, a doctoral student within the Earth System Science and Policy department at the University of North Dakota’s (UND’s) John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, […]

During this past week, the Small Radio Telescope was repaired with the help of Dr. Michael Cobb, from CassiCorp, Inc. Several components were replaced that had failed. The SRT will be tested in a few days, followed by observing by UND Space Studies students taking SpSt 570: Introduction to radio astronomy during the Summer 2008 […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences Contact: Karen Ryba/Phone: 701-777-4761 July 10, 2008 UND Aerobatic Team Competes in Seward, NE Contest (Grand Forks, North Dakota): The University of North Dakota (UND) Aerospace aerobatic team participated in its first competition of 2008 on June 28-29, 2008 in Seward, NE. Five of the […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences Contact: Karen Ryba/701-777-4761 July 10, 2008 UND Aerospace Offers Campers an Introduction to Aviation And a Taste of College (Grand Forks, North Dakota) – The John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, located at the University of North Dakota, is sponsoring the 25th International Aerospace […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences Contact: Karen Ryba/Phone: 701-777-4761 July 9, 2008 UND Aerospace Acquires 25 Cessna 172 Skyhawks for Flight Training Program (Grand Forks, North Dakota): The University of North Dakota John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences has entered into a multi-year contract with Cessna Aircraft Company, A […]

News Conference on UND Partnership with Cirrus on Space-flight Simulator Is Wednesday, July 2 GRAND FORKS, N.D. – Cirrus Design Corp. will play host to a press conference at its Grand Forks plant at 10 a.m. Wednesday, detailing the beginning construction of a horizontal space-flight simulator to be used by the University of North Dakota’s […]

Personnel from CassiCorp, makers of the Small Radio Telescope, will visit the UND Observatory on the week of July 7 to assess and repair the Small Radio Telescope. Recent testing has shown that the SRT is experiencing several technical issues, including a possibly bad controller. Also, construction of Internet Observatory #3 continues. The pier was […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences Contact: Chuck Pineo/Phone: 701-777-4757 June 25, 2008 UND Aerospace to Train More Than 200 Pilots From India (Grand Forks, North Dakota): UND Aerospace at the University of North Dakota (UND), announces a three-year agreement with Bharati Vidyapeeth University (BVU) in Pune, India to provide a […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences Contact: Karen Ryba/Phone: 701-777-4761 June 23, 2008 Atmospheric Sciences Thesis Defense *** “Arctic Mixed-Phase Cloud Microphysical Properties Deduced from ARM Surface and Aircraft Measurements during M-Pace” (Grand Forks, North Dakota): The oral examination for Hongchun Jin, a candidate for the Master of Science Degree in […]