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UND is ranked No. 11 out of more than 200 nonprofit schools in the nation for online education, according to this year’s rankings by Guide to Online Schools, a leading education website for aspiring college students. The top 30 were evaluated and chosen based on stringent criteria established by Guide to Online Schools. UND edged […]

In a pact that reinforces the region’s leadership in a growing global industry, UND and Northland Community & Technical College (NCTC) signed a memorandum Monday, March12, of agreement that joins two national leaders in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) education, research, and training. President Robert Kelley and NCTC President Anne Temte inked a five year MOA that […]

Carenlee Barkdull , associate professor of Social Work and director the Master of Social Work program, will present the fourth lecture of the University Faculty Lecture Series for 2011-2012. The upcoming lecture is titled “Peril, Promise and Potential of Distance Education,” and will be presented on Thursday, March 8, at the North Dakota Museum of […]

A campus and community discussion on issues of national security featuring senior military officers from the U.S. Army War College is being held Monday, March 19, at 7 p.m. in  210 Clifford Hall. UND is one of a few universities in the country to be a 2012 host to the U.S. Army War College Eisenhower […]

The University of North Dakota will celebrate its 129th birthday with special employee and faculty recognitions and awards on Thursday, Feb. 23, during the Annual Founders Day event in the Memorial Union. A reception will begin at 5:15 p.m., with the banquet at 6 p.m.  Cecilia Garcia, Fernando Vargas and Rachel Abbe, of the musical […]

The University will celebrate its 129th birthday with special employee and faculty recognitions and awards on Thursday, Feb. 23, during the Annual Founders Day event in the Memorial Union. A reception will begin at 5:15 p.m., with the banquet at 6 p.m.  Cecilia Garcia, Fernando Vargas and Rachel Abbe, of the musical group “Trio Ferace,” […]

UND has been named one of the “Top Military-Friendly Colleges & Universities” by Military Advanced Education (MAE) magazine for the second consecutive year. In its fifth Annual Guide, MAE honored UND as one of fewer than 300 schools which specifically cater to the military community. “This is a wonderful achievement for UND and it comes […]

After two months in a remote valley of the world’s coldest and driest continent, geomorphologist Jaakko Putkonen and his student team are back in Grand Forks. They successfully finished their second trip to Antarctica as part of a research project to discover how the wind shapes the barren landscape there. It’s a big challenge just […]

Dear Campus Community: In keeping with state law and at the direction of North Dakota State Board of Higher Education President Grant Shaft, the University of North Dakota has resumed the use of the Fighting Sioux nickname and logo for our athletic teams. This action is necessary based on the filing of petitions Tuesday night […]

Terrence Roberts, one of the famous “Little Rock Nine,” a group of brave black students that led desegregation of public schools in the late 1950s, will present “Lessons from Little Rock,” at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6, in the Memorial Union. The presentation delivered by Roberts tells a chilling story of the nine teenagers who […]

The North Dakota State Board of Higher Education at its teleconference meeting today approved a new Department of Petroleum Engineering at UND. The department will be part of the School of Engineering and Mines (SEM) and offers the only petroleum engineering degree program in the state. “This is a response to a very apparent need […]

The Deans’ list includes students whose grade point averages are in the top 15 percent of the enrollment in each of the University’s degree granting colleges and schools. A student must have completed no fewer than 12 semester hours of academic work for the semester, of which eight or more hours must be graded work […]

The Deans’ list includes students whose grade point averages are in the top 15 percent of the enrollment in each of the University’s degree granting colleges and schools. A student must have completed no fewer than 12 semester hours of academic work for the semester, of which eight or more hours must be graded work […]

In Summer 2010, the reporting line for the leadership of the Department of Social Work was shifted to the College of Nursing on a temporary basis. With eighteen months of experience of that alignment, the decision was made last week to formalize the incorporation of the Department of Social Work into the College of Nursing. […]

UND and Neomatrix, LLC, announced today that they have signed an exclusive agreement to develop technology for the early detection of breast cancer using the company’s HALO Breast Pap Test device. The HALO breast test is for physicians and is designed to help screen and assess breast cancer risk in women using techniques from cell biology. […]