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Dec. 18, 2024

In 2022, the NDSU Department of Biological Sciences received a $1.4 million award from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) program to help fund scholarships for students with unmet financial…

Dec. 16, 2024

When companies want to solve problems, they turn to engineers. Even if those engineers are still college students. Every major in the College of Engineering includes a capstone experience. The course immerses student teams in hands-on design projects, many for industry…

Part of the team that created a lift system for medical purposes
Dec. 16, 2024

Hockey players and their families know the smell all too well. That unmistakable bag odor known for stinking up homes, cars and locker rooms. There are Reddit threads galore on what to do about hockey gear stench, but a group of NDSU engineering students think…

A photo of the engineering team who created a system to ventilate smelly gym bags
Dec. 13, 2024

Eric Gjerdevig never thought he would be teaching classes. Gjerdevig initially spent 20 years in the tech industry, and the last 13 of which as the president of a software consulting company he founded in 2005. When Gjerdevig’s company was acquired in 2017, he…

Dec. 10, 2024

As graduating students move onto their next chapter in their lives, Austin Rinke wants his fellow graduates to cherish every moment and to stay present throughout it all.

Dec. 9, 2024

NDSU is scheduled to hold the fall 2024 commencement ceremony Friday, Dec. 20, in the Sanford Health Athletic Complex. The 2 p.m. event will include the College of Arts and Sciences; College of Health and Human Sciences; College of Agriculture, Food Systems…

Students interact during the NDSU fall commencement ceremony
Dec. 5, 2024

NDSU was named best college in the Red River Valley by an online vote of Inforum.com readers in the newspaper’s 18th annual Best of the Red River Valley competition. Nominations for the competition opened in August and closed in October. More than 168,348…

Nov. 27, 2024

NDSU’s Oceti Sakowin Ballroom was filled with laughter, warmth and the inviting aroma of turkey and gravy on Wednesday, Nov. 27, as students gathered for the second annual Friendsgiving event.

Oct. 23, 2024

Terry Traylor, a Marine Corps veteran and NDSU doctoral student studying software and security engineering, was recently selected for the 2024/2025 Veterans of Foreign Wars - Student Veterans of America Legislative Fellowship.

A photo of NDSU graduate student Terry Traylor