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Released: 22-Jul-2016 4:05 PM EDT
Study Finds E-Cigarette Nicotine Labels Not Always Accurate
North Dakota State University

A study by researchers at North Dakota State University, Fargo, found that 51 percent of labels on e-cigarette liquid nicotine containers from 16 North Dakota stores don’t accurately reflect the levels of nicotine found in the products. In one instance, actual nicotine levels were 172 percent higher than labeled. The majority of e-cigarette liquid containers also did not provide child-resistant packaging.

Released: 17-Jun-2016 4:05 PM EDT
UND Honored at Annual Summit for Work with Geothermal Technology
University of North Dakota

Every year, the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) honors a number of organizations who strive to further knowledge in geothermal technology, as well as economic and environmental advances, at the Baseload Renewable Energy Summit.

Released: 16-Jun-2016 2:05 PM EDT
Research Program Studies Industrial Hemp
North Dakota State University

North Dakota farmers are growing industrial hemp for the first time in more than 70 years, and the New Crops research program in the NDSU Department of Plant Sciences is conducting research to assist them.

Released: 27-Apr-2016 1:05 PM EDT
Contamination in North Dakota Linked to Fracking Spills
Duke University

Accidental wastewater spills from unconventional oil production in North Dakota have caused widespread water and soil contamination, a new Duke University study finds.

Released: 25-Apr-2016 9:05 AM EDT
Engineering Team Excels at NASA Rover Challenge
North Dakota State University

A team of four North Dakota State University mechanical engineering students took third place in the University Division of NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge April 8-9 at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The competition attracted 91 teams from around the world.

Released: 23-Feb-2016 12:05 PM EST
NDSU Researchers to Receive Up to $9.62 Million for Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research
North Dakota State University

Researchers in NDSU’s College of Health Professions and College of Science and Mathematics are receiving an Institutional Development Award (IDeA), Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant of up to $9.62 million. The award from the National Institutes of Health is being used to establish a research center aimed at early diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic cancer.

Released: 14-Jan-2016 12:05 PM EST
Study of European Shag Shows Parental Age May Affect How Long Offspring Live
North Dakota State University

A North Dakota State University faculty member is among a group of international researchers studying why older parents produce offspring who tend to have shorter lives. Britt J. Heidinger, assistant professor of biological sciences at NDSU, Fargo, has joined colleagues in Scotland to address this question through the study of a long-lived seabird, the European shag. The results appear in "Parental age influences offspring telomere loss," published in Functional Ecology.

Released: 4-Nov-2015 1:05 PM EST
Can Parents’ Stress Impact the Health of Future Generations?
North Dakota State University

A new review published in Biology Letters of The Royal Society examines the long-term impacts of exposure to stressors during development. The review by Dr. Britt Heidinger, North Dakota State University, Fargo, and Dr. Mark Haussmann, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, looks at whether the effect of stressors on parents lingers to impact the health of their offspring.

Released: 15-Oct-2015 1:05 PM EDT
NDSU Researchers Studying White Nose Syndrome Seek Bat Populations in North Dakota
North Dakota State University

While many people find bats scary, they actually play very important roles in our environment, according to Dr. Erin Gillam, associate professor in Biological Sciences at NDSU. Bats eat crop pests, such as cutworms, potato beetles, grasshoppers and corn-borer moths. Gillam and her students are partnering with the North Dakota Game and Fish Department and researchers at the United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck to better understand how bat populations in North Dakota may be vulnerable to this disease.

Released: 13-Oct-2015 5:05 PM EDT
“Adult Bullying – a Nasty Piece of Work” Sheds Light on Workplace Bullying and What to Do About It
North Dakota State University

From the workplace to the boardroom, research shows that adult bullying takes many forms. October is National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month. Dr. Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik, North Dakota State University, Fargo, has researched the topic of workplace bullying for more than a decade. Her book, “Adult Bullying – A Nasty Piece of Work: Translating a Decade of Research on Non-Sexual Harassment, Psychological Terror, Mobbing and Emotional Abuse on the Job," explains what workplace bullying is; how much of it occurs; what individuals can do; and how organizations can address it.

   
Released: 30-Sep-2015 2:05 PM EDT
Biologists Integrate Unmanned Aircraft Technology in Canadian Wildlife Study
University of North Dakota

As part of the “Hudson Bay Project,” a collaborative research program that includes partners from the U.S. and Canada, researchers conducted nearly 90 test flights to show that Unmanned Aircraft Systems can be used non-invasively to study geese in the region and their impact on the tundra landscape.

Released: 24-Sep-2015 3:05 PM EDT
NDSU Researchers Studying Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery to Combat Prostate Cancer
North Dakota State University

Two North Dakota State University researchers have received a National Institutes of Health grant award to study ways to use polymer spheres to deliver anticancer drugs to combat prostate cancers.

Released: 24-Sep-2015 9:05 AM EDT
Valspar Foundation and NDSU Announce Coatings Scholarships and Student Research Program
North Dakota State University

Valspar Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of paints and coatings, and North Dakota State University (NDSU) announced scholarship and research opportunities for students studying coatings and polymeric materials at NDSU. The Valspar Foundation has contributed $25,000 to support up to five graduate student scholarships of $3,000 each through the Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials at NDSU and coordinated through NDSU’s Development Foundation.

Released: 18-Sep-2015 12:05 PM EDT
Seven Named to NDSU Unmanned Aircraft Systems Advisory Panel
North Dakota State University

North Dakota State University has named an interdisciplinary group of seven members to its Unmanned Aircraft Systems Advisory Panel, which provides a mechanism to foster cross collaboration of UAS research spanning colleges and disciplines. The FAA gave its approval allowing unmanned aerial vehicles to fly up to 1,200 feet above the entire state of North Dakota, including night flights.

Released: 27-Aug-2015 3:05 PM EDT
Dr. Allan Ashworth Named President of International Union for Quaternary Research
North Dakota State University

Delegates attending the congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research have elected Allan Ashworth, North Dakota State University Distinguished Professor-Emeritus of geology, president of their organization for 2015 to 2019.

Released: 25-Aug-2015 5:05 PM EDT
Revealing the Role of Beclin 1 in Cellular Interactions
North Dakota State University

North Dakota State University researcher Sangita Sinha is studying the structure of a protein critical to maintaining cellular health. Sinha, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at NDSU, Fargo, received a four-year, $890,900 award from the National Science Foundation to understand the structure and mechanism of a protein called Beclin 1.

Released: 24-Aug-2015 10:05 AM EDT
"Tobacco Goes to College" Shows Battle for Youth Market Began Early
North Dakota State University

In her book “Tobacco Goes to College: Cigarette Advertising in Student Media, 1920-1980,” Dr. Elizabeth Crisp Crawford, North Dakota State University, Fargo, studied how tobacco advertising targeted college students to smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette. Crawford found the advertising plans and creative tactics to be extremely strategic over the six decades studied. The book’s in-depth analysis of vintage cigarette ads provides insights into sophisticated advertising that was well ahead of its time, and still applicable in today's discussion of promoting e-cigarettes.

   
Released: 31-Jul-2015 3:05 PM EDT
NDSU Professor Awarded Funding to Research Environmentally Benign Approaches to Chemistry
North Dakota State University

Jayaraman Sivaguru (Siva), Ph.D., James A. Meier Jr. Professor of chemistry and biochemistry at North Dakota State University, Fargo, has received a three-year, $440,000 award (CHE-1465075) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop environmentally benign, green strategies for performing chemical reactions with light.

Released: 17-Jul-2015 4:05 PM EDT
NDSU Researcher Studies Regulation of Transporters That Are Key to Bacterial Survival
North Dakota State University

Christopher Colbert, NDSU assistant professor of biochemistry, has received a $348,000 grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health to conduct research on structure-function relationships of iron transport and transcriptional regulation in Gram-negative bacteria.

Released: 14-Jul-2015 12:05 PM EDT
NDSU Grad Student Invited Speaker at Gordon Research Seminar
North Dakota State University

A North Dakota State University graduate student is part of a team developing a plastic that can be turned back into its original molecules and then re-made into a different plastic product. NDSU doctoral student Ramya Raghunathan has been invited to present her research at the prestigious Gordon Research Seminar on Photochemistry to be held July 18-19, 2015 at Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts.

Released: 2-Jul-2015 4:05 PM EDT
NDSU Professor Receives NIH Grant for Cardiovascular Research
North Dakota State University

Stephen O’Rourke, professor of pharmaceutical sciences at North Dakota State University, Fargo, has received a $435,000 grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health to conduct cardiovascular research.

Released: 1-Jul-2015 4:05 PM EDT
NDSU Researcher Receives $1.35 Million NIH Grant to Target Colorectal Cancer
North Dakota State University

Researcher Bin Guo at North Dakota State University, Fargo, is receiving a four-year $1.35 million research project grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health to develop a targeted treatment for colorectal cancer.

Released: 27-Apr-2015 12:05 PM EDT
NDSU Faculty Receive National Science Foundation CAREER Awards
North Dakota State University

Peter Bergholz, Ph.D., assistant professor in Veterinary and Microbiological Sciences, and Wei Jin, Ph.D., assistant professor in Computer Science at North Dakota State University, Fargo, each are receiving five-year Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation. Bergholz and his research team will sequence the genomes of 1,200 bacteria and look for associations between changes in the genome and changes in the soil environment. Jin's research will be conducted to develop smarter, more efficient methods to search for connections across documents in a large-scale setting.

Released: 10-Apr-2015 5:05 PM EDT
Research Shows Pears Could Be Part of a Healthy Diet to Manage Diabetes
North Dakota State University

While the phrase “an apple a day” is a popular saying, a new study suggests that pears as part of a healthy diet could play a role in helping to manage type 2 diabetes and diabetes-induced hypertension. The results of research published in Food Research International show potential health benefits of Bartlett and Starkrimson pears.

   
Released: 16-Mar-2015 4:05 PM EDT
Croll to Receive Air Force Young Investigator Award
North Dakota State University

Andrew Croll, assistant professor of physics at North Dakota State University, Fargo, is receiving a $305,046 three-year award from the U.S Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). The competitive award is being made through the prestigious Young Investigator Research Program. Croll’s research proposal is titled “Crumpled and Prescriptively Folded Polymer Films for Advanced Lightweight Materials.”

Released: 14-Jan-2015 3:00 PM EST
Water Resources Research Institute Names Director
North Dakota State University

The North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute has named Eakalak Khan as director of the Institute, effective March 1. He will succeed G. Padmanabhan who served as long-time director of the organization which promotes the education and training of water resources research professionals attending the state’s universities, as well as other related research activities.

Released: 22-Dec-2014 10:00 AM EST
NDSU, Sanford Health Announce Research on Human Health, Nutrition
North Dakota State University

North Dakota State University, Fargo, and Sanford Health will conduct collaborative research on human nutrition, weight management and other dietary-related areas as part of a seed-grant initiative developed between the two organizations. The research will address key objectives of the Profile by Sanford® program. Sanford will provide $250,000 annually for five years for the seed-grant program.

Released: 12-Dec-2014 3:00 PM EST
Technology Created at NDSU Licensed to c2sensor
North Dakota State University

A technology developed at North Dakota State University, Fargo, creates precise in-the-ground measurement and monitoring of soil and crop conditions which could provide opportunities for greater yields. The technology also has led to a new start-up company. The c2sensor corp., based in the NDSU Technology Incubator, has concluded a license agreement with the NDSU Research Foundation (NDSU/RF) for the precision agriculture technology.

Released: 24-Nov-2014 5:00 PM EST
New Plastic that Disappears When You Want It To
North Dakota State University

Plastic populates our world through everything from electronics to packaging and vehicles. Once discarded, it resides almost permanently in landfills and oceans. A discovery by researchers at North Dakota State University, Fargo, holds scientific promise that could lead to a new type of plastic that can be broken down when exposed to a specific type of light and is reduced back to molecules, which could then be used to create new plastic. The research by the Center for Sustainable Materials Science is published in Angewandte Chemie.

Released: 7-Nov-2014 5:15 PM EST
Center at NDSU Contributes to Product Featured on Henry Ford's Innovation Nation
North Dakota State University

Developers from the Center for Sensors, Communications and Control (CSCC) at North Dakota State University, Fargo, played a role in the development of a product featured on Henry Ford's Innovation Nation.TrackR bravo from Phone Halo allows you to keep track of things via your smartphone with small, coin-sized item-tracking devices for your keys, pets, wallet, and more.


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