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16 Jul UND Alumni Focus: Beautiful inside and out

Posted at 15:30h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

UND alumna creates movement to help young girls love themselves for who they are [caption id="attachment_9666" align="aligncenter" width="800"] With her non-profit BIO Girls, Missy Heilman teachers adolescent girls how to rise above the superficial beauty standards of a social-media society.[/caption] With her non-profit BIO Girls, Missy Heilman...

16 Jul UND Alumni Focus: A call to action

Posted at 15:23h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

After witnessing opioid overdoses first hand, recent UND alum now manages Grand Forks’ response to the national crisis [caption id="attachment_9660" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Having earned a master’s degree in Public Health from the University of North Dakota, Michael Dulitz serves as Grand Forks’ first opioid response project...

09 Jul Charles Gorecki selected to lead UND’S EERC

Posted at 19:04h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

Charles Gorecki, director of subsurface research and development with the UND Energy & Environmental Research Center for the past four years, will succeed Tom Erickson as EERC CEO beginning Aug. 1. Photo by Kari Suedel/EERC. Charles Gorecki today was named CEO of the University of North...

09 Jul UND students awarded scholarships in remote sensing and geospatial technologies

Posted at 15:03h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

Three UND students have been awarded a $750 North Dakota View Scholarship to help promote their professional development in remote sensing and other geospatial technologies: Emmalee Woods, undergraduate student in Fisheries and Wildlife Biology in the department of Biology, Annandale, Minn. Eohjin Lee, master's student...

01 Jul UND receives $1M atmospheric research contract from U.S. Navy

Posted at 15:56h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

Cape Experiment 2019 combines strengths of UND, Fargo-based Weather Modification International to advance cloud modeling, forecasting on global scale GRAND FORKS, N.D. — The University of North Dakota has received a contract of just over $1 million to conduct research on behalf of the Naval...

24 Jun Season of winning for UND alum and St. Louis Blues

Posted at 21:00h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

What was to be a semester-long video production internship with the St. Louis Blues turned into a season-long job for Andrew Marsh, who received an insider view of his favorite hockey team’s historic Stanley Cup triumph. Photo courtesy of Andrew Marsh. On May 21 in Enterprise...

24 Jun UND and local business community launch new round of student focused partnerships

Posted at 20:58h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

Three UND students—Maura Ferguson (left), Carter Razink and Anisa Holwerda (not pictured)—have been selected for the 2019 Main Street GF Challenge. Their ideas for improving Grand Forks earned a $5,000 prize and support from the entrepreneurial community. Photo by Connor Murphy/UND Today. Collin T. Hanson, executive...

11 Jun UND Director Tom Erickson to lead new State Energy Research Center

Posted at 20:50h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

On Tuesday, Tom Erickson, CEO of UND’s Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC), announced his transition to lead the new State Energy Research Center of North Dakota. Photo by Kari Suedel/EERC. Nearly five years after being appointed to head UND’s Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC),...

10 Jun UND College of Engineering & Mines celebrates three decades of distance engineering education

Posted at 21:00h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

After lunch outdoors, over 60 distance students as well as faculty and staff gathered at the Collaborative Energy Center last Thursday to mark the 30th anniversary of the distance engineering program at the College of Engineering & Mines. (Above) CEM Dean Hesham El-Rewini addressed the crowd....

10 Jun New UND Dietetics Degree is path to health professions

Posted at 20:55h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

Recently renamed and revised, the bachelor of science in human nutrition will prepare students—through an all-encompassing, rigorous degree program—for their futures as physicians, physical therapists and health professionals. Photo by Shawna Schill/UND Today. Nutrition and dietetics is more than helping people choose foods, said Riley Kimball....

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