John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences

The following students were awarded their Master’s degree this spring semester: Mark Bigley, Lee Graves, James A. Johnson, Svetlana Shkolyar, and Will Swearson. Congratulations!

First UND students with unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) degrees set to graduate Saturday Among the nearly 1,500 receiving degrees from the University of North Dakota during spring commencement on Saturday will be the first graduates in the nation with degrees in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operations. “It’s truly the first and only kind of its […]

Aero Crew Solutions will be holding a pilot job fair in Atlanta on Saturday June 11th. We are inviting regional airlines, cargo airlines, fractional airlines and major airlines. The job fair will be a one day event starting at 9:00 AM and ending at 6:00 PM. The job fair will be held at the Sheraton […]

The National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law (http://www.spacelaw.olemiss.edu/about/history.html) is pleased to announce a new, comprehensive website (http://www.spacelaw.olemiss.edu/). As with its previous site,  the Center’s blog, Res Communis (http://rescommunis.wordpress.com/), and  all of its publications (http://www.spacelaw.olemiss.edu/resources/publications.html), including the Journal of Space Law back to 1973 (http://www.spacelaw.olemiss.edu/jsl/index.html), are also accessible through the new site. The […]

Timothy Holland (in green shirt) is a graduate student in Space Studies who is spending the summer in Huntsville with four other college students at the Robotics Academy sponsored by Dynetics and the Rocket City Space Pioneers. The team’s project is to design a lunar lander prototype. Goals for the summer include: overall prototype configuration […]

The Red River Valley Research Corridor has made available presentations and powerpoints from the 2011 UAS Summit that was held on June 2 & 3 in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Access the presentations by clicking on the links below. All files are .pdf format. “Emerging Trends in UAS – Looking to the Future” – a […]

Dr. Vadim Rygalov and SpSt graduate student Joshua Nelson are running currently tests with plants and thermal control research and developments under reduced atmospheric pressures. Tests are being conducted at the Space Life Sciences Lab, NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This research and travel to FL is supported by ND NASA EPSCoR

Mike Gaffey received a 3-year, $450,000 research grant from the NASA Planetary Geology and Geophysics program to investigate the early history of the inner solar system and the processes and conditions that were present during the transition period from the late solar nebula to the earliest solar system. Telescopic spectra of selected asteroids obtained at […]

Dr. Paul Hardersen, and graduate students Matthew Voigt and Rakesh Nath, attended the 2011 AAS Solar Physics Division (SPD) meeting, Las Cruces, New Mexico, from June 11-17, 2011. Dr. Hardersen presented a poster on his ongoing intrinsic sunspot rotation research and Voigt presented a poster on his M.S. thesis work, which involves a longitudinal study […]

The University of North Dakota’s International Space Station Agricultural Camera (ISSAC)has successfully captured its first high-resolution image from space. The photograph–taken June 10 and depicting the western coastal region of Florida–is a milestone for the program and represents a decade-long development by UND students and faculty members. “This is a fantastic day for ISSAC and […]