John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences

The NDSGC met with Minot State University students and led a pre-service teacher workshop on April 1st, 2021. We conducted three hands-on activities and introduced the various NASA- and ND-based educator opportunities. Activities from the session  Pocket Solar System Strange New Planet Rockets to the Rescue Here are some helpful links: The Google Slides presentation […]

  The North Dakota Space Grant Consortium (NDSGC) is inviting you to the 2022 Student Symposium and Affiliates Meeting! At this yearly meeting, the NDSGC team recaps the past year, students present their NDSGC funded work and experiences, and an affiliates business meeting is held. This year’s NDSGC Student Symposium & Affiliates Meeting will be held on April 8th & […]

The IDEAS* team presents: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Space Science Educators Workshop *(Innovative Differentiated Education Activities in Space Science) Registration is now closed. About: To prepare for accessible and inclusive eclipse and space science experiences, all educators will participate in hands-on STEM investigations, explore UND’s Human Spaceflight Laboratory (Inflatable Lunar/Martian Analog Habitat, Space Suit […]

Attention all ND college students:  The ND Space Grant Consortium will be hosting an informational Zoom webinar session on March 23, 2022 for students interested in learning how they can get involved in Summer 2022 programming. This session will be recorded and made available to students unable to attend. Students must register to receive the Zoom link. (You do not […]

In response to the FY 2022 NASA Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) EPSCoR Suborbital Flight Opportunity (SFO) Announcement Number: NNH22ZHA002C, the North Dakota NASA EPSCoR (Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) is soliciting pre-proposals from faculty at affiliate institutions specifically designed to promote and expand NASA research in North Dakota. Following preliminary proposal selection by […]

In response to the FY 2022 NASA Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) EPSCoR Rapid Response Research (R3) Announcement Number: NNH22ZHA004C, the North Dakota NASA EPSCoR (Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) is soliciting pre-proposals from faculty at affiliate institutions specifically designed to promote and expand NASA research in North Dakota. Following preliminary proposal selection by […]

The NDSGC is accepting applications for a Graduate Service Assistantship (GSA).  Share this job opening easily by visiting the application guidance PDF. Application Deadline: Friday, January 21, 2022 Eligibility: U.S. Citizen Graduate student enrolled at University of North Dakota (distance or campus-based)  3.0 Minimum GPA Position Details: February 1, 2022 to May 15, 2022 Half-time appointment […]

The following awards have been selected for funding for Spring 2022. Congratulations! Aaron Kennedy, Atmospheric Science, UND; Research Title:  Balloon-borne Profiling of the Atmosphere to Support NASA PIP and ICESat-2 Observations Omid Beik, Electrical and Computer Engineering, NDSU; Research Title: Multiphase MW Generator for Improved Power Density and Increased Reliability by Reduced DC Capacitive Filtering David Delene, Atmospheric […]

  Dr. Rebecca J. Romsdahl’s Mindful Wandering: Nature and Global Travel through the Eyes of a Farmgirl Scientist takes the reader from a Minnesota farm to England, Morocco, Peru and beyond. Part travelogue, part book of essays, and part scientific manifesto, Romsdahl blends her experiences growing up on a Minnesota farm, studying and teaching environmental […]

That’s the Big Dipper. That’s the Little Dipper. And not so long ago, that’s about as deep as Lake Region State College graduate Liz Deckert wanted to dip into space science. But that was before the kinesiology major and future chiropractor transferred this fall to the University of North Dakota, where she landed a NASA-funded Bridge Fellowship through […]