Innovation, Discovery, and Entrepreneurial Activity (IDEA)
IDEA
IDEAs are everywhere at UND.
Innovation, Discovery, and Entrepreneurial Activity.
Our spirit of inquiry is rooted in both the liberal arts and the professional disciplines. Our discoveries are grounded in principles of innovation, creativity, intellectual risk taking, and interdisciplinary collaboration focused on addressing complex challenges and identifying opportunities. Use these pages to help you connect, collaborate, and advance IDEAs with us.
IDEA Resources
Students, faculty, staff, alumni and community partners are encouraged to advance IDEAs together.
Research News
UND scientists study how cloud seeding affects hail in western North Dakota
DISCOVERY strategic priority: ‘Enhance and deepen UND’s Grand Challenge areas, (with an eye to) identifying solutions to pressing challenges’
12/16/2025
5:16PM
A weather eye over GrandSKY
In partnership with GrandSKY, UND researchers use specialized drone to gauge weather, improve forecasting
9/4/2025
4:19PM
SpaceX rocket carries UND satellites into orbit
First-ever satellites commissioned in North Dakota will be operated remotely from UND’s Odegard Hall
6/24/2025
5:17PM
The hidden bias in college admissions tests
Metrics such as grade point average are better predictors of college readiness, writes UND scholar and co-authors in The Conversation
6/17/2025
4:57PM
Technology & Discovery News
The UND grad student in Mission Control
‘Being able to directly apply what I have been learning at UND to my work for Artemis has been invaluable,’ says Jeremy Raush, Guidance, Navigation and Control lead for the upcoming Artemis II mission
2/12/2026
2:34PM
UND in orbit
With UND now controlling its satellites, the University has become one of America’s first to train students using its own space assets
2/10/2026
3:05PM
UND leads $20 million federal initiative to transform diabetes care for seniors
Kouhyar Tavakolian, professor of Biomedical Engineering and director of UND’s Bioinnovation Zone, and graduate student Lina Bouakkaz demonstrate Hyperview, a tissue oximetry device that will be used to image wounds
2/5/2026
1:44PM
Big ideas can fit into 180 seconds, as Three Minute Thesis winners show
Competitors explain forever chemicals, upper-atmosphere microbes and other complex topics for a public audience
2/3/2026
1:44PM