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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, […]

Being a kid with the nickname “NASA” got UND graduate Kayla LaFrance pushed into lockers during high school, but recently her nerdiness netted her a new title and $100,000. The 28-year-old is the latest winner of the TBS reality show “King of the Nerds,” which pitted 11 nerds from a variety of backgrounds against one […]

Kayla LaFrance, Space Studies alumna of the UND Space Studies master’s program, recently won the reality television series, King of the Nerds on tbs.  You can read her bio and watch her interview for the television show here.  Congratulations Kayla!

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UND alumna Di Wu has received a Year 2013 Contractor Performance Award from the NASA Earth Sciences Division – Atmospheres. She received this award “For outstanding technical support in using the WRF model to provide real-time forecasts during GPM Ground Validation (GV) field campaigns and providing WRF-simulated data to support other studies and proposals.” Di […]

Nicole Bart, recent B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences graduate, has been hired as a research specialist at North Dakota State University (NDSU). Nicole will be responsible for maintaining the North Dakota Agriculture Weather Network (NDAWN) weather stations. Her duties include installing and calibrating new instruments, performing quality control and working with data loggers, as well as […]

Elizabeth Howell (M.Sc. Space Studies ’12) will talk about astronaut Chris Hadfield on The Nature of Things, the flagship CBC Television program on science and discovery. The show airs in Canada on Thursday, April 25 at 8 p.m. and will be available online for global viewers on Friday. Howell is a freelance space and science journalist for sites […]

Marc Fusco, 2012 Space Studies alumnus, will be appearing on “The Space Show” with Dr. David Livingston on Sunday, April 28th live from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm ET.  His discussion will feature the histories of Apollo and the Space Shuttle, which was the subject of his thesis work to earn his Master’s degree in […]

Dr. Zhe Feng (’11) has received a Chinese Doctorate Student Thesis Award from COAA (Chinese-American Ocean-Atmosphere Association). The award was presented at the COAA 2013 AMS reception at the AMS Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas. All Chinese graduate students receiving their Ph.D. degree in atmosphere and ocean fields during years 2011-2012 are qualified for compete […]

Robert Mitchell (’09) has learned that he will start training this summer that will qualify him to fly a NOAA P-3 “Hurricane Hunter” aircraft starting in 2015. The training will be done with the Navy at an east coast base. Robert is an officer in the NOAA Corps and has been flying a variety of […]