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12 Feb 51st Annual UND Writers Conference to focus on ‘The Working Classes’

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The University of North Dakota will hold its 51st annual Writers Conference Wednesday through Friday, March 25-27, at the North Dakota Museum of Art on campus. Founded in 1970 and held every year since, the UND Writers Conference has featured some of the most well-known authors...

06 Feb UND’s Surojit Gupta presents Feb. 19 Faculty Lecture on future of high-performance materials

Posted at 16:08h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

Mechanical engineering to address critical requirements for advanced cutting tools, hypersonic vehicles, high-temp electrodes and more Surojit Gupta, associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of North Dakota, will give the next talk in the Faculty Lecture Series. He will present “Imagine Materials: Next Generation Functional...

03 Feb Simulators on campus: Big rig for UND Petroleum Engineering is big deal

Posted at 18:03h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

UND’s Department of Petroleum Engineering will soon host world’s largest oil drilling simulator At $40 million, the drilling and completion lab at UND’s Petroleum Engineering department will soon be the sole facility of its size and scope in the world. Vamegh Rasouli, professor of petroleum engineering,...

03 Feb Simulators on campus: UND Aerospace launches VR flight trainer

Posted at 18:00h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

Odegard School’s new Virtual Reality lab represents pilot training’s next frontier Students hone their flying skills in the new Virtual Reality Lab in the UND John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences. Photo by Mike Hess/UND Today. When he was being recruited as Associate Dean of the...

03 Feb Simulators on campus: UND Aerospace students ‘fly’ at zero altitude

Posted at 17:57h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

Simulators are perfect for hands-on learning and practicing emergency procedures — and UND makes full use of them The scenarios presented in UND’s 360-degree air-traffic-control tower simulator are so realistic, students at times emerge dripping in sweat. Photo by Shawna Schill/UND Today. Editor’s note: It all started at...

03 Feb UND’s Rachel Navarro presents on closing the Latinx achievement gap in engineering

Posted at 17:48h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

Rachel Navarro, professor of counseling psychology at UND, gives a talk titled “Diversifying Engineering Pathways: Lessons Learned from Latinx Engineering Undergraduates and Workers” on Jan. 22 as part of the UND Faculty Lecture Series. Photo by Connor Murphy/UND Today. The nation’s largest nonwhite ethnic group — and...

03 Feb University of North Dakota’s Petroleum Engineering Department to host world’s largest oil drilling simulator

Posted at 17:36h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

Donated rig will be housed in former Minnkota Power Plant building in Grand Forks, and joins 10 other hands-on drilling labs at UND The University of North Dakota will soon host the world’s largest – and only – full scale oil drilling and completion lab. “This drilling...

28 Jan UND will host third annual Aerospace Community Day Feb. 8

Posted at 14:29h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

Aerospace Community Day last year saw more than 3,000 attendees — of all ages — tour and experience the University’s highest-flying School What: Aerospace Community Day at the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences When: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 8 Where: All UND Aerospace...

27 Jan University of North Dakota will offer world’s first doctoral program in Indigenous health

Posted at 21:25h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

UND’s INMED Program has graduated 244 American Indian/Alaska Native physicians, making it the most successful Indigenous medical training program anywhere The North Dakota State Board of Higher Education made history last week with a vote to approve the first doctoral program in Indigenous health. It’s not only...

24 Jan UND’s new, user-friendly dashboards are designed to give faculty and staff good data for making decisions

Posted at 20:38h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

UND Provost Tom DiLorenzo, center, and Chief Data Officer Amanda Moske, in yellow, pose with members of the University Analytics & Planning team. Photo by Connor Murphy/UND Today. Go to UND.edu. Search the term, “UND dashboards.” And if you’re a UND faculty or staff member, discover a whole new...

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