University Letter

UND's faculty and staff newsletter

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Jan Orvik

Update on campus budget process

Categories: Spotlight

To the Campus Community: I want to give everyone an update on where we are with the budget process. There have been many questions and lots of conversations. There will be more discussions, more hard work, and many difficult decisions ahead. And when I say “ahead,” I mean longer than simply getting through the process […]

Vote for Staff Senators by April 15

Categories: Announcements

It’s time to elect your Staff Senate.  All eligible staff have been sent an email with the ballot link.  Senators remain on the senate for a three-year term and are eligible to be voted in for a second three-year term.  Take the time to vote for your representatives.  Elections close April 15. If you are […]

Opening reception is April 5 for four exhibitions at the Chester Fritz Library

Categories: Events

An opening reception for four new exhibitions are on display at the Chester Fritz Library will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, at the Library. The exhibitions follow. Art Collections exhibition: The Farmers’ Choice Revisited Selected Works with Agricultural Themes, located on the library’s third floor. A revision of a show […]

UND Tech Accelerator welcomes new biotech tenant

Categories: Campus News

The University of North Dakota Tech Accelerator is set to welcome a new tenant. Zyme Fast, a Manitoba-based established producer of antibody-based livestock feed supplements, will occupy space in the Tech Accelerator facility, located on the west edge of campus, according to Kevan Rusk, director of the Accelerator. “We’re very excited about Zyme Fast’s decision […]

Daphne Pedersen named president of International Sociology Honor Society

Categories: Honors

Daphne Pedersen, Sociology, was recently elected as president of Alpha Kappa Delta, the International Sociology Honor Society. The purpose of Alpha Kappa Delta is to seek to acknowledge and promote excellence in the scholarship in the study of sociology, the research of social problems, and such other social and intellectual activities as will lead to […]

Harald Sitte

Public invited to attend UND’s Frank Low Research Day on April 7

Categories: Events

Harald Sitte

The School of Medicine and Health Sciences will hold the 36th Annual Frank N. Low Research Day on Thursday, April 7, from 8 a.m. 6 p.m. in the Reed Keller Lecture Hall at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Grand Forks. Keynote speaker is Harald H. Sitte, professor, Medical University for Physiology and […]

April 4 Barkhouse lecture has been postponed

Categories: Events

The lecture planned for Monday, April 4, by Wayne Barkhouse on gravitational waves (“Einstein was right!”) on UND’s campus has been postponed. We will issue a new announcement when a new time and date is selected.  

Early Career Big Data Summit set for April 6-8

Categories: Events

UND will host an Early Career Big Data Summit (ECBDS) April 6-8, a Midwest Big Data Hub event. The summit seeks to provide a venue for early career big data researchers (graduate students, post docs, and pre-tenure faculty) to connect with industry, third-sector volunteer groups, and established researchers. Events will include multiple industry panel discussions, […]

Walter Hood

Architect Walter Hood will give public talk March 31

Categories: Events

Walter Hood

The North Dakota Museum Of Art invites everyone to a free lecture by Star Landscape Architect Walter Hood on Thursday, March 31, at 7:30 p.m. The public is also invited to a buffet luncheon with Mr. Hood on Friday, April 1, at noon. Cost for the luncheon is $10 and attendees are asked to RSVP […]

Visiting artist Daniel Heyman gives talk April 4

Categories: Events

Visiting artist Daniel Heyman will give an Artist Talk at noon Monday, April 4, in the Paul E. Barr Lecture Room, 227 Hughes Fine Arts Center. Heyman traveled to North Dakota in the summer of 2015 to begin a collaborative project, “In Our Own Words: Native Impression,” a collection of 26 prints that chronicles stories […]

Kouhyar Tavakolian

April 1 colloquium focuses on cardiac vibration signals

Categories: Events

Kouhyar Tavakolian

The Department of Physics & Astrophysics is pleased to present a colloquium by Kouhyar Tavakolian, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. “Cardiac Vibration Signals: New Tricks for Old Devices,” the colloquium will be held April 1 at 4 p.m. in Witmer Hall, Room 209. Abstract With every heartbeat the body is set to a series of […]

‘In Our Own Words: Native Impressions’ opens April 3

Categories: Events

In Our Own Words: Native Impressions  opens at the North Dakota Museum of Art April 3 at 4 p.m. and continues through July 10. Who are contemporary American Indian people in North Dakota? What are their stories? Printmaker Daniel Heyman came to North Dakota from Princeton University determined to ask those questions. His invitation came […]

Daba Gedafa advocates for infrastructure funding by Congress

Categories: Honors

Daba Gedafa, assistant professor of civil engineering and vice president of the North Dakota Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers, visited Washington, D.C. to attend a conference about the need to fund infrastructure improvements across the nation. He advocated for more infrastructure funding and discussed the Water Resources Development Act when he met […]

Latest news stories include Early Career Award recipients, more

Categories: Announcements

Check out the latest news and feature stories at the digital news center. This week’s stories include: Digital touch: Early Career Award bolsters Sheila Liming’s efforts to digitize library of literary legend Edith Wharton. Water wars: Civil Engineer Feng Xiao uses Early Career Award to focus on purification techniques to address “new” or emerging threats […]