John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences

Gretchen Mullendore, Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, has received a funding award from the University of Texas, San Antonio, for work on a project entitled “Climate Change Communication: Engineering, Environmental Science, and Education (C3E3).” The overall project is funded by NASA with funding support for UND in the amount of $71,156. Co-investigators at UND are […]

The UND Citation research jet successfully conducted a 6-week period of flight operations in the vicinity of thunderstorms in support of the NASA Midlatitude Continental Convective Cloud Experiement (MC3E). The goal of the experiment was to collect data in clouds and precipitation while the atmosphere was being sampled by a satellite simulator flown in a […]

Yingxi Shi, Ph.D. student in Atmospheric Sciences has been awarded an Outstanding Student Paper award for the 2010 AGU (American Geophysical Union) fall meeting. The paper was titled “Evaluation of the MODIS Deep Blue aerosol product over the North Africa Regions for aerosol forecasts related applications.” Her presentation was recognized as among the best of […]

UND is holding a grand opening of its new simulation center on Aug. 10 at Grand Forks Air Force Base, marking a milestone in the university’s quest to become an unmanned aircraft research hub. University officials will be sharing the spotlight with officials from L-3, makers of the Predator simulators at the $2million facility. UND […]

Nicole Thom doing fieldwork in the Scablands of Washington State. She was in the Scablands as part of her summer internship at the Goddard Space Flight Center Academy.

Jessica Blagen and Tim Holland attended the launch of STS-135 on July 8. Prior to that they attended the NASA Un Conference at Orlando during which they were given a VIP tour of Kennedy Space Center.

Space Studies Masters student Joshua Nelson standing next to Space Shuttle Atlantis shortly before it launched on the last mission of the Space Shuttle program. While doing research at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for his UND Masters Thesis, Josh networked with a number of NASA employees who offered him this unique opportunity to get […]

Eric O’Dea, Space Studies master’s student, will defend his thesis as follows.  Please show your support by attending. When: Tuesday, July 19th at 2:00 p.m. Where: Ryan Hall, Room 111 Title: Identifying Igneous Asteroids in the Outer Main Belt Topic: Early in the history of the Solar System, a transient heating event occurred that thermally altered […]

John Boucha, Space Studies master’s student, will defend his thesis as follows.  Please show your support by attending. When: Monday, July 18th at 1:00 p.m. Where: Ryan Hall, Room 111 Title: Space Studies for the iPad:  Using Technology to Increase Public Knowledge and Interest in Space Topics Topic: A major challenge of NASA is getting the […]

Matt Voigt’s thesis defense is now availabe with past archived presentations at http://realmedia.aero.und.edu/real/flash.asp?class=spst/thesisdefense.  His title is “X-ray Bright Point Evolution as a Global Phenomenon”.