Office of the Vice President

NDSU Interim Vice President for Research and Creative Activity Heidi Grunwald, PhD

Heidi Grunwald, PhD, is the interim 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, Heidi 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).

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(701) 231-5917

email: heidi.grunwald.1@ndsu.edu

Heidi Grunwald Associate Vice President for Research Development