Discovery
Advance research, creative activity, and scholarship through our spirit of inquiry and our desire to better understand the world around us.
As a nationally recognized public research institution, UND cultivates excellence in creativity, research and innovation. As North Dakota’s flagship university, with nine colleges and schools―as well as several centers and institutions―it is our responsibility to both serve and lead the region in our distinctive areas of expertise and excellence.
Rooted in the liberal arts traditions of critical thinking, problem-solving and intellectual risk-taking, our commitments to the principles of innovation and creativity are reflected in our research, partnerships, creative work and teaching. We value the breadth of scholarly work that is being produced all across UND. It is this which makes possible the interdisciplinary collaboration that is essential for addressing complex problems. This breadth, combined with the depth embodied by UND’s Grand Challenges, is what helps propel North Dakota toward new horizons.
We will cultivate an inclusive environment where creative expression, intellectual risk-taking, critical inquiry, research excellence and a spirit of wonder flourish. By removing barriers between disciplines and communities, we can engage in substantive public discourse, intentional research and focused actions aimed at finding cutting-edge solutions and building a more inclusive world. We value academic freedom, free speech, creative expression, critical inquiry and innovative thinking, and we will forge partnerships that lead the way in developing responsible solutions to pressing problems.
Discovery Strategic Priorities
| Priority | Priority Objective |
|---|---|
| Research, creative activity, & scholarship | Coordinate and manage resources to support the strategic balance of breadth and depth of research, creative activity, and scholarship happening across campus. |
| Teaching, applied learning, & transformative research | Foster innovative teaching, applied learning, and transformative research that exemplifies discovery, as shown by experimenting, researching, drafting, writing, prototyping, rehearsing, etc. |
| Creative expression, critical inquiry, & innovation | Infuse creative expression, critical inquiry, and innovation across the students’ learning journeys by supporting comprehensive curricular and co-curricular participation in research. |
| Grand Challenges | Enhance and deepen UND’s Grand Challenge areas which foster and sustain cross-disciplinary teams dedicated to identifying solutions to pressing challenges. Be open to the addition of new Grand Challenges to help meet society’s changing needs. |
| Facilitate and enhance connections | Facilitate and enhance connections, where new and existing partners―including industry, government, and inter-institutional collaborations, among others―can easily engage, and where internal efforts to foster partnerships can be supported and flourish. |
| Service units | Strengthen service units that support creativity, research and innovation in all stages, from program development to promotion and beyond. |
| Establish appropriate & measurable outcomes | Further empower departments and units to establish appropriate and measurable outcomes for creative activity and research. These outcomes should be specific to each department’s professional discipline and incorporated into the evaluation process and faculty tenure and promotion standards. |
Discovery Newsletter
Discovery’s power to transform
Real improvements in our quality of life are being made possible by UND, top University research execs Charles Gorecki and Scott Snyder say
‘Ye Olde Tailor Shop,’ but in space: Professor patents 3D printing of spacesuits
'Discovery’ core value: Foster ‘transformative research that exemplifies discovery’
Remembering NASA’s Pearl Young, UND ’19 — 1919, that is
‘DISCOVERY’ strategic priority: ‘Facilitate connections,’ where partners including government ‘can easily engage’
UND helps establish North Dakota Fulbright Chapter
'DISCOVERY’ strategic priority: ‘Strengthen service units that support creativity, research and innovation in all stages’
Medicine, music and more at UNDergraduate Showcase
‘DISCOVERY’ strategic priority: ‘Infuse creative expression, critical inquiry and innovation’ by supporting courses that include research
Water goes in. Engineers come out.
‘DISCOVERY’ strategic priority: ‘Foster and sustain cross-disciplinary teams dedicated to identifying solutions to pressing challenges’
UND celebrates opening of Experiential Learning Center
‘DISCOVERY’ strategic priority: ‘Support the breadth and depth of research, creative activity and scholarship happening across campus’
The University seeks to discover and share knowledge, with the goal of solving problems in our state, nation and world, the deans of three UND colleges say.
Three UND researchers spend a day in an underwater habitat near Key Largo, Fla., to learn more about space.
UND receives $7.6 million Army contract for revolutionary sanitation technology
Hand-held inspection scanners will detect contamination invisible to the human eye
UND, Cankdeska Cikana Community College on the Spirit Lake Reservation partner to design lunar boot outsole for NASA
Early Career Awards highlight research of budding scholars
At inaugural event, Early Career Scholars unveil especially promising research
UND puts Humvee through its paces, assisted by minivan mom: Me
The University’s research could change the engineering of frontline military vehicles, as I can explain (if I survive)
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