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Lyle Palm (M.S. 2012) received a national welding award for his work at Workshops for Warriors, a San Diego-based nonprofit that assists veterans gain new skills and employment as they make the transition into civilian life. Read the entire Grand Forks Herald article here.

The UND Citation II Research Aircraft, dubbed UND Cloud One, returned to Grand Forks earlier this week after a two week mission over the skies of Florida. “We studied thunderstorm anvils, sampling the clouds up to an altitude of 40,000 ft,” said David Delene, associate research professor and principal investigator on this mission. The storm […]

Arturo Ortiz, SpSt M.Sc. 2015, presented a technical paper at the 45th International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES), held at Seattle on July 12-16, 2015.  The paper was based on Ortiz’s M.Sc. thesis, and was coauthored with UND Associate Professors Vadim Rygalov and Pablo de León.  Dr. Rygalov was the thesis advisor. Ortiz, A. R., […]

That’s been the case since he was 14 when he had his first discovery flight. When he was 17 years old, he became a licensed pilot. He even likes to fly when he stays on the ground, and now he’s a pioneering his own path again as one of the few commercially licensed drone operators […]

Elizabeth Howell, SpSt M.Sc. 2012, was recently published in Space Policy along with UND SpSt professor David Whalen, who has just entered phased retirement. The publication was based on Howell’s M.Sc. thesis, for which Dr. Whalen was the advisor. Howell is currently in the Aerospace Sciences Ph.D. program. Howell, E. and Whalen, D. (2015). Caution […]

At a ceremony guaranteed to please more than 100 scholarship recipients last weekend, John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences student Kristopher Chachula was presented with the first-ever UAS training scholarship. Sensurion Corp.’s Dan Johnson presents his company’s training scholarship to UND UAS student Kristopher Chachula. The event took place in the Memorial Union Ballroom—packed […]

Gordon Gartrelle , SpSt M.S. 2011,  has been published recently: Gartrelle, G. (2015). Unknown caller: can we effectively manage the announcement of discovery of extraterrestrial life? International Journal of Astrobiology. doi: 10.1017/S1473550415000075.   Abstract: The definitive discovery of another form of life from beyond Earth will answer one of our most fundamental questions: Are we […]

The Spring 2015 Space Studies Colloquium Series will focus on the NASA Discovery Program–the development of a planetary science mission– and will feature several leading experts in the field. The fourth presentation in this series will feature  John Sloan, Senior Space Policy Analyst and Program Lead for International Outreach, Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Commercial […]

Space Studies alum, Tiffany Swarmer (M.S. 2014), was featured in the recent issue of Alumni Review.  See the article here.  

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, […]