NDSU Office of Research and Creative Activity

Learn about NDSU's new partnership with RAND, a non-profit, nonpartisan research organization that provides leaders with information they need to make evidence-based decisions. In this town hall, you can engage with RAND scientists and methodologists to brainstorm how to ensure that the first year of the Rural America Partnership informs important policy and research relevant to North Dakota, the five sovereign Tribal nations, and the Upper Great Plains.

Mar. 2, 12:15 pm - 1 pm
Zoom

Join NDSU interim VPR Grunwald to learn about the Genesis Mission, a coordinated national effort to unleash AI‑accelerated innovation and discovery to solve challenging problems.

The Genesis Mission aims to bring together research and development resources and combine the efforts of researchers, businesses, universities, and existing research infrastructure (including data repositories, production plants, and national security sites) to accelerate AI development and utilization. The Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness federal scientific datasets to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs.

Mar. 3, 8 am - 8:45 am
Meadow Lark + Zoom

Learn about the Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC), its data, and research opportunities from Cathy Fitch, Associate Director of the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation, an interdisciplinary research institute that provides the infrastructure and services to support the work of its four centers: IPUMS, the Minnesota Population Center, the Life Course Center, and the Minnesota Research Data Center.

Main audiences for FSRDC data are economists, public health researchers, sociologists, geographers, and demographers.

Mar. 4, 2026, 12 pm - 1:30 pm
Meinecke Board Room + Zoom
Lunch Provided
Presentation until 1pm with time for Q&A following.

Join local entrepreneurial ecosystem players for a high-level overview of how their organizations can support entrepreneurs. In addition, learn from other NDSU entrepreneurs about their experience with starting a business.

Ryan Aasheim, Chief Business Development Officer, Greater Fargo Moorhead EDC

• What the EDC is and when someone should reach out to you
• State and local incentives entrepreneurs should know about
• What is primary sector certification
• Q&A

No RSVP required - you are welcome to stay for as little or as long as you'd like!

March 5, 4:00-5:30 pm
Brewhalla, second floor
1702 1 Ave N, Fargo
(food and beverage is responsibility of attendees)

Mar. 9, 2026 12 pm - 1 pm
Badlands + Zoom

These trainings in this series focus on animal welfare and veterinary care. Lectures are conducted on Teams, and recordings will be made available (except where indicated). Trainings are focused on IACUC proposal submissions and veterinary procedures.

Mar. 11, 11 am - noon
Full list of series sessions

The NDSU Sponsored Programs Administration & Grant and Contract Accounting offices are introducing a new collaborative training series which is designed for faculty and business support staff who assist in the pre- and post-award processes.

Mar. 16, 2026, 12 pm - 1 pm
Nueta + Zoom

NDSU faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend a lunch and learn with experimental particle physicist and cosmologist Larry Gladney, PhD. He will share some excerpts from his new book, Python for Graduate Students.

Gladney is the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean of Science, Phyllis A. Wallace Dean of Diversity and Faculty Excellence, and Professor of Physics at Yale University. He is a renowned physicist who works at the intersection of experimental particle physics and cosmology, and he is also a leader in science outreach, widely known for his work expanding access to education.

March 17, 2026 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Presentation starts at 12:15 pm with time for Q&A following
MU Room Prairie Rose
Lunch provided

An example of how AI’s usage in agriculture is expanding rapidly is BisonGuard, a hands-off, intelligent tool for tracking bison herds in real-time while keeping them safe. The project weaves together generations of Indigenous tradition with pioneering technology.

The state-of-the-art soda kiln will bolster NDSU's ceramics program and a growing student population.

This year, NDSU is represented by 29 researchers on the single-year list and 36 on the career-long list, including six faculty who are new to the career list this summer.

The team’s research has produced several key advancements in 3D printing through the incorporation of fiber reinforcement. While the 3D printing movement has expanded massively over the past several years, it has always struggled with an inherent disadvantage: the types of materials used in manufacturing are limited in their strength and size. Researchers at NDSU, led by Chad Ulven, professor of mechanical engineering, are working to change that.

NDSU has again been recognized as one of the country’s top research institutions by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The Research 1 distinction is Carnegie’s highest classification and is presented to the nation’s top research institutions.

For FY25, the latest fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, NDSU researchers earned $93.5 million in external research and instructional funding awards from federal, state, and private sources.