Campus Happenings

21 May DSU faculty and staff recognized for excellence in teaching and service at annual awards ceremony

Posted at 16:44h in Campus Happenings by crhoades

Dickinson State University (DSU) held its annual faculty and staff award ceremony May 2, 2019. This event, which was first held in 1988, is an opportunity for the University to celebrate the accomplishments and service of faculty and staff. More than 40 individuals were honored for their years of service...

21 May EERC’s John Harju testimony before Congress on curbing climate change attracts bipartisan raves

Posted at 15:48h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota has been an active player in the research, development and commercialization of technologies to capture, store and use carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. Photo by Shawna Schill/UND Today. In his first time testifying...

21 May UND earns 17th national championship at collegiate aviation competition

Posted at 15:44h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

The University of North Dakota Flying Team earned its 17th national championship in SAFECON competition this past week, May 13-18, hosted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The team has now finished first or second in 30 of the past 36 years at the National Intercollegiate...

21 May UND rallies together for salary increases, additional pool for high performers

Posted at 15:41h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

The University of North Dakota continues to solidify its perch atop the short list of best places to work and serve in North Dakota and across the region. Tom DiLorenzo A big move in that direction started last fall, when University leaders worked with schools, colleges and...

20 May NDSU professor named fellow of interior design organization

Posted at 19:15h in Campus Happenings by hhotzler

Susan Ray-Degges, professor and interior design program coordinator, has been named a fellow of the American Society of Interior Designers. It is the society’s highest honor, with less than 1 percent of its members attaining the level. “I am truly honored and humbled by this recognition –...

20 May Scholarship endowment established in honor of longtime NDSU professor

Posted at 19:04h in Academics, Campus Happenings by hhotzler

A new scholarship benefiting NDSU College of Engineering students has been established in honor of Don Anderson, a longtime professor of civil engineering. The Dr. Donald Anderson Scholarship Endowment was created through a generous gift from NDSU alumnus Timothy Welch and his wife, Donna LaQua-Welch. Students...

20 May UND Special Collections unveils digitalized photo album to mark former Lt. Gov. Rosemarie Myrdal’s 90th birthday

Posted at 16:20h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

For former North Dakota Lt. Gov. Rosemarie Myrdal’s 90th birthday, on May 20, the University of North Dakota’s Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections is introducing a commemorative assortment of photographs. The Department has digitalized one photo for every year of Myrdal’s life, which...

19 May UND Space Studies students conclude two extraterrestrial weeks sealed in Inflatable Lunar/Mars Habitat

Posted at 15:51h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

Stefan Tomovic, Pretoria, South Africa, is a University of North Dakota Space Studies student who served as mission commander for the seventh Lunar/Mars Habitat (ILMH) mission completed on May 8. Photo by Patrick C. Miller/UND Today. Just west of Interstate 29 and the University of North...

17 May NDSU music students excel at competitions

Posted at 14:59h in Campus Happenings, Student by hhotzler

Students from the NDSU Challey School of Music recently excelled during the National Association of Teachers of Singing, known as NATS, competition for both the South Dakota and North Dakota chapters. In South Dakota, NDSU singers won five awards in their division, including two first places,...

17 May NDSU students honored at oil chemists meeting

Posted at 14:58h in Campus Happenings, Student by hhotzler

NDSU cereal science doctoral students Minwei Xu and Yang Lan were honored at the 2019 American Oil Chemists’ Society meeting in St. Louis May 6-8. Xu was awarded the Lipid Oxidation and Quality Division Excellent Poster Award for his poster, ”Proximate Composition, Fatty Acids Profiles, and...