Newswise — Join the University of North Dakota's Peter Johnson and Juan Pedraza on Wednesday, June 28, 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. at the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C., 13th Floor, in the Zenger Room, for an informal continental breakfast briefing about UND research, including aerospace, atmospheric sciences, energy, environment, engineering, health, medicine, nanotechnology, nursing, space, wellness and more. For example:
-- Energy and Environmental Research Center: $20 million in research, houses the National Center for Hydrogen Technology, recognized worldwide for developing clean air technologies for energy sources, such as coal, renewable energy sources and biofuels, environmental clean-up and groundwater systems management, more.
-- Space Studies: World's only fully-accredited interdisciplinary space studies graduate program offered to on- campus and distance students. Leading the design of a Mars space suit, which was successfully tested in the North Dakota Badlands in May. Other expertise: asteroids, space law, space mission planning, international space cooperation, space mission design, planetary geology, asteroids and meteorites, origins of life on earth, etc.
-- Aerospace: World's largest non-military training fleet; researches human factors connected to aviation, conducts atmospheric research globally, particularly work connected to air travel conditions, such as icing, and ground transportation weather warning systems, as well as weather modification.
-- School of Medicine and Health Sciences: $25 million for research in causes of disease, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, Lou Gehrig's (ALS) disease, multiple sclerosis and mechanisms in the brain that lead to drug-seeking behavior. Also, alcoholism and problem drinking in women (world's longest continuing study of its kind), Sharon and Richard Wilsnack, ; Obesity, James Mitchell and Stephen Wonderlich, ; Neurodegenerative disease research (especially Parkinson's and Alzheimer's), Manuchair Ebadi, ; Indians Into Medicine (INMED) Program: One in five Native American physicians licensed to practice in the United States is an alumnus of the program.
-- New $20 million Wellness Center, focused around seven dimensions of wellness: physical, emotional, environmental, spiritual, social, intellectual, occupational/vocational.
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