Office of the Vice President
NDSU Vice President for Research and Creative Activity Colleen Fitzgerald, PhD
Colleen Fitzgerald, PhD, is the vice president for research and creative activity at North Dakota State University (NDSU) and is responsible for advancing and supporting research, creative activity, technology transfer, entrepreneurship and economic development activities for NDSU. In this role, Colleen leads the vision and executes the strategy to advance the research and innovation enterprise at NDSU, a land-grant and the Carnegie R1 institution. NDSU reached a new milestone with $190.3 million in research expenditures in the most recent fiscal year (FY23), which places the institution among the top 100 public research universities according to the National Science Foundation’s Higher Education Research and Development Survey (HERD).
RCA Faculty Partnerships
Undergraduate Research
North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute
The NDWRRI is one of 54 institutes known collectedly as the National Institutes for Water Resources (NIWR). Founded in 1965 by authority of Congress, the NDWRRI is administrated through the United States Geological Survey.
