Press Releases

UND’s talented theatre students face profound moments of decision in Jason Robert Brown’s compelling score

Award from Society of Professors of Education honors author, whose writing also has appeared in The Washington Post and elsewhere

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — 2021 marks 35 years since the inception of the North Dakota Small Business Development Centers program (ND SBDC). For 35 years, the network’s credentialed advisors have been empowering North Dakota’s small businesses and entrepreneurs to thrive. The program provides customized guidance and resources that help owners and entrepreneurs achieve their goals […]

The University of North Dakota is closing in on the start of another exciting season at The Ray Richards Golf Course. The target opening date is Friday, April 9, according to Kyle Myers, course manager. Ray Richards also has partnered with The Golf Center to provide a convenient location for the public to pick up […]

Sukhvarsh Jerath, UND professor emeritus of civil engineering, has written a graduate level textbook on structural engineering and structural mechanics. Jerath spent more than a decade penning Structural Stability Theory and Practice: Buckling of Columns, Beams, Plates, and Shells, which was published by John Wiley, a major engineering book publishers. It is written in both U.S. and […]

William “Bill” Sheridan, longtime UND Biology professor and prolific researcher in corn genetics, will receive the 2021 R. Emerson Lifetime Maize Genetics Award from the Maize Genetics Cooperation.   Sheridan, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of Biology, has been a faculty member at the University of North Dakota since 1975, and is well-known for his expertise […]

Residents regarded with suspicion the state’s recommendations, but listened and responded to the evidence, a statewide survey by the Institute for Policy and Business Analytics at the University of North Dakota showed

‘And given that the United States is home to the world’s busiest airports, we might have been No. 1 in the world earlier this month,’ University’s chief flight instructor says Watch out, LaGuardia, and move over, O’Hare: According to official Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) numbers, Grand Forks International Airport (GFK) was the busiest airport in […]

Longtime Grand Forks Herald journalist ‘is a treasure for our city, state and nation,’ UND President Andy Armacost says  Here’s some news that we hope will make Marilyn Hagerty break into such a broad smile, she’ll award herself the honor of Cheerful Person of the Week: Hagerty, longtime reporter and columnist for the Herald, soon will […]

University honored this week by Arbor Day Foundation with 2020 Tree Campus Higher Education award “Nothing happens fast in the tree world,” as Jared Johnson, arborist at the University of North Dakota, likes to say. But even for Johnson and the other patient people who tend to UND’s trees, this week’s news – which has […]