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UND to host a new season of Star Parties

Two venues: UND Observatory, just west of town; and Clifford Hall on the UND campus
The northern skies at night in summer are a truly inspiring [...]

Space Studies to participate in high-altitude balloon launch with West Fargo students May 17

UND Space Studies students and faculty will be working alongside first and seventh-grade student teams to launch and track two high-altitude balloons Friday, May 17, [...]

Students, faculty check out NASA’s Ames Research Center

Visit aims to foster UND collaboration with NASA scientists
Three UND students, along with Space Studies faculty member Pablo de León, recently visited National Aeronautics and [...]

Space Studies students to host presentation about ‘Resources for Aliens’ April 6

Space Studies graduate students Annie Wargetz and Katrina Jackson will host “Resources for Aliens,” a free interactive presentation at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 6, in 210 [...]

Observatory to hold second annual fundraising banquet March 25; register now

The UND Observatory will host its second annual fundraising banquet Monday, March 25, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Grand Forks, from 5 to 10 [...]

Space Studies graduate students host presentation about Jupiter and its moons Saturday

Space Studies graduate students Annie Wargetz and Katrina Jackson will host a free talk this weekend, part of the second presentation in their Outer Space in [...]

Space law pioneer, former faculty member Joanne Gabrynowicz speaks March 1

Spring 2013 Space Studies Colloquium Series focuses on the general theme “Near-Earth Asteroid Mining” and features several leading experts in the field.
The third presenter in [...]

Observatory to hold second annual fundraising banquet March 25

The Observatory will host its second annual fundraising banquet from 5 to 10 p.m. Monday, March 25, at the Hilton Garden Inn. The observatory is [...]

Space Studies graduate students host talk on exoplanets Saturday

Annie Wargetz and Katrina Jackson, graduate students in the Space Studies master’s program and volunteer NASA Solar System Ambassadors, will give a lecture at 2:30 [...]

Space Studies and Space Grant Consortium hold balloon competition

Space Studies students and the NASA North Dakota Space Grant Consortium are holding the second annual Near-Space Balloon Competition.
As part of the competition, groups of [...]

Space Studies faculty member has work published in Science

Space Studies faculty member Vishnu Reddy is a co-author for two papers about the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Dawn mission’s discoveries made on [...]

Space Studies graduate students host fundraiser for observatory

Space Studies graduate students and Space Aliens Bar and Grill invites the community to join them for the monthly “Space Aliens Helping Earthlings” community fundraising [...]

Space Studies and Astronomy Club to host latest Public Star Party Aug. 31

Space Studies and the University’s Astronomy Club will be holding another one of their “Public Star Party” events at 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 31, in [...]

Space Studies and Astronomy Club to host ‘Star Party’ Aug. 10

Space Studies and the University’s Astronomy Club will be holding a special “Public Star Party” event at 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 10, at the UND [...]

Space Studies team takes NDX space suit system to ‘Mars’

Two graduate students from Space Studies, Annie Wargetz and Timothy Holland, recently returned from a trip to the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) near Hanksville, [...]

Space Studies relaunches popular Star Party series

The Department of Space Studies is set to re-launch its popular Star Party series, which will alternate between the UND Observatory and Clifford Hall.
“This coincides [...]

Space Studies will feature “The Space Show” host and UND teacher David Livingston Oct. 25

UND’s David Livingston will present “The Sound Of The Space Policy Debate: Space Show Guests Speak Out” at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 25, in 111 Ryan Hall.
During [...]

Space Studies hosts colloquium series

The Space Studies fall colloquium Series kicks off Monday, Sept. 27, and will focus on space policy. Each presentation is held at 4 p.m. in [...]

Space Studies colloquium series kicks off with Lt. Col. David Arnold

The Fall 2010 Space Studies Colloquium Series focuses on the general theme “Space Policy” and features several leading experts in the field. The first presentation [...]

Santhosh Seelan named Space Studies chair

Santhosh Seelan, professor of Space Studies and a noted expert in satellite remote sensing, has been appointed chair of Space Studies. Seelan replaces David Whalen, [...]

NASA scientist to conclude UND Space Studies spring colloquium series

Space Studies concludes its spring 2010 colloquium series, which focuses on the general theme Human Missions to Mars, with a presentation by Wendell Mendell from [...]

Space Studies colloquium will focus on missions to Mars

The fourth talk in the UND Space Studies spring colloquium series, which focuses on “Human Missions to Mars,” is at 4 p.m. Monday, March 8, [...]