Spring 2025 Programming
January 23, 2025
Picture Perfect: Unlocking Your Phone's Photography Potential
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. | Memorial Union Room 318
Participants will learn how to capture stunning photos using their smartphones. It covers essential topics like understanding camera features, mastering composition, and optimizing lighting and exposure. Participants will learn practical techniques for stabilizing their shots and editing photos. The objective is to equip learners of all ages with the skills to take professional-quality photos with their smartphones, enhancing their ability to capture and share memorable moments.
Cost: FREE
Instructor/Facilitator: Hayley Kuntz
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Hayley Kuntz has served as the University of North Dakota’s Social Media Manager since 2019. Hayley’s role includes creatively and strategically bringing UND’s stories to life. You’ll rarely catch her without her iPhone in hand, capturing images that strike a balance between authenticity and aesthetics and resonate with audiences across all social media platforms. As a proud UND alum, Hayley is dedicated to supporting the University’s mission and showcasing the impactful work happening across campus.
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February 19, 2025
Pioneer Monuments and Public Memory
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. | Memorial Union Room 318
Participants will learn about the Pioneer monuments that stand before the North Dakota statehouse and throughout the American West. Tracing changing public responses to these statues reveals both growing contestation and their enduring power in American memory. Learn more about these monuments and how you can help document them and other historic sites.
Cost: FREE
Instructor/Facilitator: Cynthia Prescott
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Cynthia Prescott is a professor of History and Chair of the Department of History & American Indian Studies at the University of North Dakota, where she teaches classes on U.S. western and gender history, memory studies and the history of “stuff.” Through public presentations, a website (PioneerMonuments.net), public and scholarly writing, Cynthia seeks to encourage and inform community conversations about the past and future of U.S. pioneer monuments. She is developing a 'Reacting to the Past' classroom role-playing game that challenges students to debate and negotiate the reinterpretation, relocation, and removal of San Francisco’s Pioneer Monument from diverse local perspectives.
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March 20, 2025
Air Racing Aviatrixes: From the Legendary Florence Klingensmith to UND's Frozen Force Air Race Team
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. | Memorial Union Henry Family Ballroom
Explore the historic significance of North Dakota’s first licensed female pilot, Florence Klingensmith, with the premiere of the regionally Emmy nominated short film The Aviatrix. After the viewing of the film, we will be joined by local Klingensmith expert, Marisa Bengtson-Loerzel, who led the initiative to rename the Moorhead Regional Airport in honor of the aviatrix. We will then be joined by the current UND Aerospace Air Race Classic Team, the Frozen Force, to learn about air racing today and how their team prepares for the grueling 2,400 mile flight that will take place in June 2025.
Cost: FREE - Lunch is provided
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Moderator: Elizabeth Bjerke, Ph.D. is Associate Dean and Professor in the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences. She started the UND Chapter of Women in Aviation as a student in 1998 and has since been a faculty advisor for the past 23 years.
Guest: Marisa Bengtson-Loerzel
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Panel: UND Frozen Force Air Race Team: The University of North Dakota has been supporting an all-female Air Race team since 2012. The team competes every year in the Air Race Classic during the month of June. The race requires the team to complete a 2,400 nm prescribed route over the course of four days, while competing with up to 55 other teams. These year’s team consists of Helena Lind, Pilot; Charlotte Fuller, co-Pilot; Caroline Kelley, Navigator and Aubrey Baril, Ground Coordinator.
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April 22, 2025
From Sustainable Seed Collecting to Diversity in Garden Design
4:30 - 6:30 p.m. | Memorial Union Ballroom D
Participants will engage in hands-on experiences with seed preparation as they learn how to collect, prepare, store and re-plant a variety of native plant varieties from seed. Participants will also explore multiple ways to design and construct garden beds to maximize water use, use of space, aesthetics and plant compatibility. Materials and resources will be provided.
Cost: FREE
Sponsored by Gro.UND Learning Gardens
Collaborators: Center for Engineering Education Research (CEER) and Outreach in Teacher Recruitment & Retention (OTRR)Instructor/Facilitator: Cheryl Hunter and Joshua Hunter
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Drs. Cheryl and Joshua Hunter are faculty in Educational Foundations & Research (EFR) at UND. They established GRO.UND Learning Gardens on UND's campus to develop ecological literacy and a sense of place in our schools and communities through sustainable garden education. Learning gardens and place-based practices create a vehicle for community engaged stewardship and sustainability while addressing the social, economic and ecological needs of our community.
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May 14, 2025
Landscape Design for Year-Round Beauty and Sustainability
12:00 - 3:00 p.m. | Memorial Union Ballroom D and walking tour
Participants will learn from UND’s top arborist and horticulturist about the best ways to plan and sustain a beautiful garden for the ages. This workshop includes practice conceptualizing your garden as an ecosystem and gaining insight into the reasons for why specific annuals and perennials grow best in various soil and climate conditions. This landscape design for the ages workshop will provide participants with hands-on experiences sketching their own garden designs and a walking tour highlighting some of UND’s special landscaping beds and rare trees.
Cost: $25 - Taco Bar lunch provided
Instructor/Facilitators: UND Arborist, Jared Johnson and UND Horticulturist, Melissa Grafenauer
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Melissa Grafenauer has over 20 years of experience as a landscape specialist and has been beautifying UND’s campus for the past six years. Melissa’s specialty is landscape design and annual flower beds for campus projects and beyond. When she is not making the world a more beautiful place, Melissa enjoys time with family, sports and keeping up with her three dogs, granddaughter and three sons.
Jared Johnson holds a degree in horticulture from Salina Area Technical School and a Bachelor's in Horticulture / Greenhouse Management from Kansas State University. He became an ISA Certified Arborist in 2013 while working for the Grand Forks Park District. In 2019, Jared began his career as an Arborist at UND as the first official Campus Arborist. Jared has been tireless in his efforts to diversify the tree species on campus along with removing hazardous trees to keep campus safe for all.
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