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The Indian Studies Association (UND-ISA) and Indian Association (UNDIA) are proud to announce the 41st Time-Out and Wacipi (Powwow) celebration on the UND campus. The Time-Out events will be held April 4-8. Time-Out Week, hosted by the UND Indian Studies Association, gives students, faculty and the general public an opportunity to take a break from their […]

The Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies (CHRGS) will host Jolanta Samuolyte, one of Lithuania’s top human rights lawyers and Legal Director of the country’s Human Rights Monitoring Institute. In her keynote address at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 22, in the East Asian Room of the Chester Fritz Library, Samuolyte will compare Lithuania and the Baltic countries’ […]

Fifty-five senior medical students, members of the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) Class of 2011 at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, learned where they would spend the next chapter of their lives as resident physicians. On Match Day, medical school seniors across the United States find out where they will complete their residencies, a period of […]

The Department of Civil Engineering, part of the School of Engineering and Mines, will host the 2011 American Society of Civil Engineers Midwest Conference March 18-19 in Grand Forks. The conference will include the American Society of Civil Engineers/American Institute of Steel Construction steel bridge competition, in which nine universities from across the Midwest will […]

North Dakota Spirit | The Campaign for UND is less than $84 million from its $300 million goal, thanks in part to two large gifts by alumni and friends of the University of North Dakota. One is a $3 million bequest made to UND through the UND Foundation, and the other is a $3 million […]

Aerospace engineer and researcher Pablo de Leon is part of a unique mission to test a UND planetary exploration suit — the NDX-1 — at a remote military base in Antarctica. The team departed for the Antarctic base from an Argentine Air Force site earlier this week. The Spaceward Bound Mission includes de Leon, of […]

U.S. Senator Kent Conrad will address graduates, faculty, alumni, family, and university supporters at UND’s 2011 Spring Commencement Ceremony at the Alerus Center, at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, May 14. “We are extremely pleased and proud that Senator Kent Conrad will deliver the commencement address at the University of North Dakota this May,” said President Robert […]

The UND Concert Choir will spend its Spring Break touring, performing and learning in the Netherlands and Belgium March 12-22. The choir, under the direction of assistant professor of music Joshua Bronfman, left for Amsterdam Saturday with 45 members. The choir will visit a dozen cities while performing and participating in clinics with professional conductors. “This […]

Approximately 70 UND students will spend their Spring Break traveling to Denver and Washington, D.C., to help others as part of the annual “Pay it Forward Tour.”  This is the sixth year UND students have participated in the event, which is organized by the University’s chapter of Students Today, Leaders Forever. During the nine-day trip, […]

Approximately 70 UND students will spend their Spring Break traveling to Denver and Washington, D.C., to help others as part of the annual “Pay it Forward Tour.”  This is the sixth year UND students have participated in the event, which is organized by the University’s chapter of Students Today, Leaders Forever. During the nine-day trip, […]

While many other students head to the beach March 14-18 for a spring break, one group of UND students will learn about rural North Dakota and offer to be of help during the first-of-its-kind “Stone Soup Bus Tour.” The tour is named after a UND Center for Community Engagement program, which sponsored and organized the […]

While many other students head to the beach March 14-18 for a spring break, one group of UND students will learn about rural North Dakota and offer to be of help during the first-of-its-kind “Stone Soup Bus Tour.” The tour is named after a UND Center for Community Engagement program, which sponsored and organized the […]

First graders at Ben Franklin Elementary School in Grand Forks will become “moon mining experts” after a three-day lesson from a team of UND mechanical and electrical engineering and computer science students Monday through Wednesday. The team is currently working on the design and construction of a robot to enter in NASA’s Lunabotics Mining Competition […]

Vice President for Student Affairs Lori Reesor has appointed a search committee to help find UND’s next Associate Vice President for Student Services and Dean of Students. Reesor appointed Lisa Burger, director, Student Success Center, to chair the committee. The committee will help find the permanent successor to Lillian Elsinga, who retired June 30, 2010. The […]

Marc Boucher, head of the Québec government office in Chicago, will visit UND March 7-9. Boucher is a professor of history, a foreign relations officer, and a cultural and economic advisor for the province of Québec. He has wide-ranging experience in international relations as the former head of Québec’s government offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta […]