Communications
News from the President
Faculty and Staff Town Hall scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 22
Join President Andrew Armacost and fellow University administrators for the first Faculty and Staff Town Hall meeting of 2025
1/16/2025
4:16PM
Early Career Scholars Program grows across campus
UND early career scholars advance careers while delivering returns on state investment
1/14/2025
4:51PM
VIDEO: Holiday greetings from the Armacosts
Happy Holidays from the University of North Dakota to you!
12/23/2024
11:45AM
VIDEO: Maintaining a safe campus
Before semester’s end, President Armacost talks with campus safety leaders about new policy on personal electric vehicles
12/10/2024
3:48PM
2024 State of the University Address
UND Press Releases
UND Aerospace partners with Vigilant Aerospace Systems to advance UAS education, research, training
The John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences (UND Aerospace) has entered a one-year partnership with Vigilant Aerospace Systems (Vigilant) to utilize the company’s drone safety software and airspace management system FlightHorizon. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed late last year to formalize the agreement. As part of the agreement, Vigilant Aerospace will provide […]
1/6/2025
10:35AM
UND in The Conversation: Helping rural schools with natural disaster preparation
Rural school districts often lack disaster preparedness infrastructure when compared with urban counterparts
12/30/2024
10:54AM
New UND Community Classes program to launch in January
In January, the Office of Extended Learning will launch UND Community Classes, a new program offering monthly interactive and educational courses open to members of the Greater Grand Forks community. These one-per-month classes, each lasting one to three hours, will provide hands-on community education experiences led by UND experts across a variety of topics, such as garden design […]
12/23/2024
8:47AM
UND in The Conversation: Safeguarding the Artemis mission
Equipping spacecraft with functional heat shields is vital for safety of crewed missions, writes UND Scholar Marcos Fernandez-Tous in The Conversation
12/19/2024
2:50PM
President’s Reading List
These are many books that have impacted the way I view the world and our role as educators. Some authors share perspectives that I had not heard, but that changed me in some important way. I encourage you to continue reading works that offer different views of the world and expose you to knowledge and ideas that might be outside your normal area of study.
- The Innovators, Walter Isaacson
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman + The Undoing Project, Michael Lewis
- Whistling Vivaldi, Claude Steele
- The One World School House, Salman Khan
- What the Best College Teachers Do, Ken Bain
- Mindset, Carol Dweck
- Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
- The Indigenous People’s History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (recommended to me by UND Professor Beth Klemetsrud)