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06 Jan More than 400 high school students will take part in 35th annual Honor Band, Choir & Strings Festival Jan. 24-26, hosted by UND

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More than 400 high school students from North Dakota and Minnesota will take part in the 35th Annual Honor Band, Choir & Strings Festival, hosted by the University of North Dakota Department of Music. The musicians were selected from the more than 850 students who auditioned...

15 Dec Exhibit celebrates former UND President George Starcher’s art

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The student-curated exhibit showcases nonrepresentational art through Starcher’s monoprints Put together by 19 students in Sarah Heitkamp’s Intro to Fine Arts class, a new exhibit at the Empire Arts Center explores the nonrepresentational monoprints of George Starcher, UND’s seventh president. Photo by Dima Williams/UND Today. For about...

07 Dec UND professor pulls back the curtain on tiny world of atoms

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‘Impossible,’ physicists once said, when asked whether people ever could see atoms. Today, physicist Nuri Oncel would answer, ‘Very possible indeed’ Nuri Oncel, associate professor of physics and astrophysics, gave a presentation titled “Have you ever seen an atom?” for the Nov. 20 Faculty Lecture Series....

30 Nov Historian, scholar and educator Jerome ‘Jerry’ Tweton played a key role at UND

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Largely viewed as the father of UND’s modern-day History Department, Jerome Tweton died last week at the age of 86. Archival image. In the History Department of the University of North Dakota, Jerome “Jerry” Tweton remains a larger-than-life figure. In his 30-year tenure at UND, he was...

30 Nov UND’s Pride of the North Band Day comes back big

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Some 640 high school students from 30 area communities take part The 11th Pride of the North Band Day on Saturday attracted 640 high school musicians from 33 area schools. Robert Brooks, UND Pride of the North Band director, held a practice session with the participants...

15 Nov UND Theatre tells the tale of Sweeney Todd, a London barber hungry for revenge

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Photo courtesy of UND Theatre. If you go: Nov. 14-16 and 21-23 at 7:30 p.m. at Burtness Theatre. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler, the infamous tale of Sweeney Todd comes to life on the Burtness Theatre stage. Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled...

08 Nov UND’s Donovan Widmer opens art exhibit at North Dakota Museum of Art

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Donovan Widmer, chair of UND’s Department of Art & Design, explores the Western ideals of beauty in his new exhibit at the North Dakota Museum of Art. Photo by Patrick C. Miller/UND Today. From a distance, the pinkish enameled brooches in Donovan Widmer’s art exhibit at...

08 Nov How art can further understanding of 9/11

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In the second talk of the 2019-20 Faculty Lecture Series, UND Associate Professor Crystal Alberts described art’s role in deepening awareness of that terrible day Art has enriched our understanding of previous conflicts such as World War II and the war in Vietnam, and it can...

06 Nov ‘Sweeney Todd’ plays Nov. 14-16 and 21-21 at UND’s Burtness Theatre

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The University of North Dakota Department of Theatre Arts presents Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Nov. 14-16 and 21-23 at 7:30 p.m. nightly, Burtness Theatre. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler, the infamous tale comes to life...

06 Nov UND’s Faculty Lecture Series continues Nov. 20 with “Have You Ever Seen an Atom?”

Posted at 14:48h in Campus Happenings by ddodds

The University of North Dakota’s Faculty Lecture Series continues Wednesday, Nov. 20, with “Have you ever seen an atom?” by Nuri Oncel, associate professor of physics & astrophysics. The lecture will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Education Room 7, with a 4 p.m. reception...

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