ON CAMPUS
Stronger together
As we all work to keep our physical distance during the COVID-19 pandemic, the UND community unites in supporting our students, alumni, faculty, and staff. For more updates on the campus response, visit blogs.UND.edu/coronavirus.
Series confronts aviation industry downturn The Aviation Industry Speaker Series is confronting the current realities facing aviation graduates and students. Learn more at aero.UND.edu/aviation/ industry-speaker-series.html
The UpSide When the world is upside down, we focus on the upside. The UpSide was created to put a little more spring in your step this season. Learn what UND programs, leaders, alumni, and students are doing to keep the world, and the University you love, going strong. • Messages from UND leaders • Impact of the UND Angel Fund • Ways to engage your UND spirit • COVID-19 responses • The latest from social media UNDalumni.org/UPSIDE A positive perspective from our home to yours.
Researchers track, map, and model pandemic Several efforts at UND are documenting COVID-19 on a more granular level than many of the global models often referenced by national media. Department of Geography instructor Joseph Mbuh, graduate geography student Anai Caparo, and Ryan Adams, director of the School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, are doing separate studies to study the virus’s trajectory and help decisionmakers tackle crucial considerations.
UND coalition brings drones into the coronavirus fight The Center for Innovation and Research Institute for Autonomous Systems (RIAS) are partnering in a coalition of unmanned aerial system (UAS) industry leaders in the fight against the novel coronavirus. Flight tests operated by Grand Forks-based drone service provider SkySkopes are underway to test the abilities of drones to spray disinfectants, deliver priority supplies and the capacity of the drone to sense body temperatures remotely. “We see this as our duty to develop ways to kill the virus, as well as find ways to get the United States back online with drones,” said Matt Dunlevy, President and CEO of SkySkopes. “I have not seen a partnership like this before, and we have a mission set like I’ve never seen before.”
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