ND EPSCoR awards graduate student research assistantships The North Dakota Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (ND EPSCoR) is pleased to announce the 2009 - 2011 Graduate Student Research Assistantship (GSRA) awards at UND. UND GSRA awardees and their faculty advisors are Daniel V. Roggenbuck, II, Minot State University, Dr. G. Kanishka Marasinghe, Department of Physics; and Eric Schmid, Jamestown University, Dr. Frank Bowman, Department of Chemical Engineering. The goal of the GSRA program is to increase educational research opportunities for graduating seniors from North Dakota baccalaureate universities to obtain M.S. and/or Ph.D. degrees in science, engineering, and mathematics at North Dakota's two research universities, UND and NDSU. -- Mark R. Hoffmann, Assistant Vice President for Research and Co-Project Director, ND EPSCoR, 777-2492