{"id":44541,"date":"2025-09-30T16:18:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/?p=44541"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:12:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:12:52","slug":"und-signs-5-million-research-partnership-with-faa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/2025\/09\/und-signs-5-million-research-partnership-with-faa\/","title":{"rendered":"UND signs $5 million research partnership with FAA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Five-year partnership will supplement work of recently established North Dakota Center for Aerospace Medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44267\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44267\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/09\/250922-FAA-IMG_8708.web_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/09\/250922-FAA-IMG_8708.web_.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/09\/250922-FAA-IMG_8708.web_-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/09\/250922-FAA-IMG_8708.web_-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UND President Andy Armacost (front left) shakes hands with Dr. Melchor Antu\u00f1ano, director of the FAA&#8217;s Civil Aerospace Medical Institute. Back row from left to right: K. Bryant Smalley, associate dean for research at the School of Medicine &amp; Health Sciences, Dr. Marjorie Jenkins, dean of the School of Medicine &amp; Health Sciences, Robert Kraus, dean of the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences and Elizabeth Bjerke, associate dean of the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences. Photo by Joe Banish\/UND Today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier in October, UND and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) signed an agreement to boost aeromedical research on campus \u2013 an agreement both parties say will enhance aviation safety.<\/p>\n<p>The five-year agreement, which provides up to $5 million in funding, will assign an FAA research medical officer to UND, who will assist with the execution and planning of research activities. This is the first time the FAA has embedded a medical researcher into a university, which helps highlight the uniqueness of this partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Joining UND President <a href=\"https:\/\/campus.und.edu\/directory\/andrew.armacost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Andy Armacost<\/strong><\/a> for the ceremony &#8212; held at UND\u2019s Carnegie Hall &#8212; was Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/about\/office_org\/headquarters_offices\/avs\/offices\/aam\/officials\/antunano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Melchor Antu\u00f1ano<\/strong><\/a>, director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/about\/office_org\/headquarters_offices\/avs\/offices\/aam\/cami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FAA\u2019s Civil Aerospace Medical Institute<\/strong><\/a>. Antu\u00f1ano\u2019s department will oversee the FAA\u2019s role in the partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Armacost said that robust collaboration between the <a href=\"https:\/\/med.und.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>School of Medicine &amp; Health Sciences<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/aero.und.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences<\/strong><\/a>, helped bring this agreement to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have deans who see an opportunity to work together, there are no barriers between the efforts,\u201d Armacost said. \u201cFor Marjorie (Jenkins) and Bob (Kraus) to join forces to make this happen is really exceptional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/campus.und.edu\/directory\/elizabeth.bjerke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Elizabeth Bjerke<\/strong><\/a>, associate dean and professor in the Odegard School, cited that UND has a long history of collaborating with the FAA. She added that the partnership with the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI) started to take shape over a year ago, with a team from UND visiting the CAMI headquarters in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>Following UND\u2019s visit to Oklahoma City, a delegation representing CAMI visited UND last fall and saw the University as a natural fit for the partnership.<\/p>\n<p>This is due largely to UND\u2019s existing infrastructure, Bjerke said. In addition to having one of the largest aviation colleges in the nation by enrollment, UND has the state\u2019s only medical school, a Student Health Services that administers nearly 1,000 aviation medicals a year and a dedicated UND Counseling Center who have invested in becoming aviation trained psychologists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the team from CAMI visited UND in November of 2024 and saw firsthand what we have here in terms of facilities and talented people, the idea of a more formalized partnership took hold,\u201d Bjerke said.<\/p>\n<p>Bjerke added that state funds appropriated in the most recent legislative session <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/2025\/05\/legislature-establishes-north-dakota-center-for-aerospace-medicine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>establishing the North Dakota Center for Aerospace Medicine<\/strong><\/a>, will assist the state\u2019s pilots in obtaining medical care. The cooperative agreement with the FAA will boost research collaboration on campus, advancing scholarship in the discipline.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/campus.und.edu\/directory\/marjorie.jenkins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dr. Marjorie Jenkins<\/strong><\/a>, dean of the School of Medicine &amp; Health Sciences, agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis collaboration between the FAA and the University of North Dakota represents a transformational opportunity connecting the expertise and resources of the FAA, School of Medicine &amp; Health Sciences and the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences,\u201d she said. \u201cThis truly supports the mission of the North Dakota Center for Aerospace Medicine and will serve to advance scientific discovery, yield 21<sup>st<\/sup> century solutions, and improve the health, resilience and safety for all who take to the skies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis cooperative agreement with the FAA strengthens UND\u2019s national leadership in aviation and health research,\u201d added UND Provost <a href=\"https:\/\/campus.und.edu\/directory\/eric.link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Eric Link<\/strong><\/a>. \u201cBy building on the work of the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences and the new North Dakota Center for Aerospace Medicine, we are advancing research and resources that will improve the health, safety, and success of pilots and aviation professionals across the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bjerke also emphasized that the collaboration is a university-wide initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five-year partnership will supplement work of recently established North Dakota Center for Aerospace Medicine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":44267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,83],"tags":[1121,55,1125,22],"class_list":["post-44541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-und","category-strategic-plan","tag-armacost","tag-john-d-odegard-school-of-aerospace-sciences","tag-learning","tag-med"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UND signs $5 million research partnership with FAA - UND Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Five year partnership will supplement work of recently established North Dakota Center for Aerospace Medicine\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/2025\/09\/und-signs-5-million-research-partnership-with-faa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UND signs $5 million research partnership with FAA - UND Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Five year partnership will supplement work of recently established North Dakota Center for Aerospace Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/2025\/09\/und-signs-5-million-research-partnership-with-faa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"UND Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-30T21:18:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-29T20:12:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/09\/250922-FAA-IMG_8708.web_.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"683\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Joe Banish\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Joe Banish\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.und.edu\\\/und-today\\\/2025\\\/09\\\/und-signs-5-million-research-partnership-with-faa\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.und.edu\\\/und-today\\\/2025\\\/09\\\/und-signs-5-million-research-partnership-with-faa\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Joe Banish\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.und.edu\\\/und-today\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3bc12a86b51128fc0b4004e5891852d4\"},\"headline\":\"UND signs $5 million research partnership with FAA\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-30T21:18:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-29T20:12:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.und.edu\\\/und-today\\\/2025\\\/09\\\/und-signs-5-million-research-partnership-with-faa\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":690,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.und.edu\\\/und-today\\\/2025\\\/09\\\/und-signs-5-million-research-partnership-with-faa\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.und.edu\\\/und-today\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/7\\\/2025\\\/09\\\/250922-FAA-IMG_8708.web_.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Armacost\",\"John D. 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