The Department of Atmospheric Sciences recently took delivery of a Baron Omni weather graphics system along with the VIPIR analysis and display program for Doppler weather radar. UND students will use this state of the art system to produce the morning weather show UND Weather Update and also the weekly news program Studio One. This […]
Ron Stenz Receives Award for Presentation
Categories: Atmospheric Sciences
January 26, 2015
Published in: Presentation
Ron Stenz, Ph.D. graduate student in Atmospheric Sciences, received an award for Outstanding Student Presentation at the Joint Satellite Program held during the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society. The title of his presentation was “Improving Satellite Quantitative Precipitation Estimates by using GOES Cloud Optical Depth”, co-authored by Xiquan Dong, Baike Xi, Zhe […]
Alumni Review Highlights Atmospheric Sciences
Categories: Atmospheric Sciences
January 26, 2015
Published in: Alumni
The Winter 2014 issue of the UND alumni Review highlighted the weather and the Atmospheric Sciences department. The cover featured a picture by Dr. Aaron Kennedy, AtSc assistant professor. Other stories highlighted Wade Stettner, AtSc 1996 graduate who is the on-site meteorologist for the PGA; Jerrid Sebesta, AtSc 2002, Miranda Hilgers, 2011 and Matt Benz, […]
Congratulations to our December Graduates!
Categories: Home Page News, Space Studies
January 16, 2015
Published in: Graduation
Congratulations to Tyler Hill and Tiffany Swarmer who graduated with a Space Studies M.S. in December!
Grand Forks Middle School Outreach
Categories: ND NASA Space Grant Consortium
January 15, 2015
Published in: Presentation
Solar Energy Presentation
St. Catherine School – Valley City, ND Outreach
Categories: ND NASA Space Grant Consortium
January 15, 2015
Published in: Presentation
Orion Presentation Strange New Planet Presentation Strange New Planet Handout
STEM Undergraduate Summer Internship Opportunity
Categories: ND NASA Space Grant Consortium
January 13, 2015
Published in: Internship
Undergraduates! Apply for a summer 2015 internship at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics today! “In the Summer of 2015 scientists from the Solar and Stellar X-Ray Group (SSXG) and the Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Group (SSP) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) will host undergraduate students from around the US. For 10 weeks these […]
NASA 2015 Scholarships/Internships
Categories: ND NASA Space Grant Consortium, Space Studies
January 13, 2015
Published in: Internship
NASA currently has scholarships and internships available for undergraduates and graduate students in a STEM field. NASA MUREP (Minority University Research and Education Project) also has scholarships and internships available to underrepresented minority students in STEM. Application deadline: March 31, 2015. Apply online here. See flyer for details.
ND NASA CAN FY2015 Announcement – RFP
Categories: ND NASA EPSCoR
The North Dakota NASA Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) is soliciting research proposals from faculty at the University of North Dakota (UND) and North Dakota State University (NDSU) to conduct NASA relevant research in one or more RFAs that are designed to promote and expand particular NASA research sub disciplines in North Dakota. […]
Congratulations to fall 2014 graduate from the master’s program, Tiffany Swarmer! Her academic and research journey is highlighted in the most recent University Letter, which can be found here. Tiffany Swarmer received Space Grant funding during her graduate studies to complete a summer internship at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in 2013.