- UND’s chapter of Delta Tau Delta
has been named one of the top nine of that national fraternity’s
117 chapters. The distinction — the Hugh Shields
Award for Chapter Excellence — was announced
at a recent leadership conference in Kansas City, Mo. The
award cites excellence in internal operations, finance,
recruitment, alumni relations, community service/relations,
membership education, and academics. Brant Hebert
of Bismarck is the chapter president.
- A new book by UND historian Barbara Handy-Marchello
has been included in a list of scholarly works recommended
by the Chronicle of Higher Education. The
book, Women on the Northern Plains: Gender and Settlement
on the Homestead Frontier, 1870-1930, draws on diaries,
interviews, memoirs, and other sources in a study of women’s
lives in rural North Dakota. It was published by the Minnesota
Historical Society Press.
- Lisa Paciulli, assistant professor of
anthropology and an expert in primate behavior and ecology,
contributed to a report released in April identifying
the 25 most endangered primates. Her section of
the book, published by the World Conservation Union, is
about the Simakobu, or Pagai pig-tailed snub-nosed monkey.
Found only in the Mentawai Islands off the cost of Sumatra,
the creature is especially susceptible to the kind of deforestation
going on in that part of the world.
- The Energy and Environmental Research Center
has received a national award for its expertise in measuring
mercury and other air toxic elements in coal ash and other
combustion products. The citation was made at the World
of Coal Ash Conference in April. UND’s work in this
area was cited as being especially timely given the installation
of new mercury control technologies under way at the nation’s
coal-fired power plants. “This award recognizes the
EERC’s 25-year commitment to very practical, scientifically
based engineering of market-driven uses for coal combustion
products,” said Director Gerald Groenewold.
- The School of Medicine and Health Sciences
climbed one notch and is now tied for third
with the University of Missouri in U.S. News and World Report’s
most recent ranking of medical schools committed
to excellence in rural medicine. The number one
and two schools were the Universities of Washington and
New Mexico, based upon a survey of deans and senior faculty
at the nation’s 125 medical schools. “We are
pleased to be viewed as a model for how medical education
and practice can best be carried out in a rural, sparsely
populated state,” said Dean H. David Wilson.
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