NDSU Graduate School

Oudom Hean, Assistant Professor in Finance, Supply Chain, and Transportation; Jaxon Nankivel, Graduate Research Assistant at the Challey Institute; and Sean Schiefelbein, student employee at the Challey Institute, published a Challey Institute paper, "Banking Consolidation and Innovation in the United States," finding that as banks merge into fewer, larger firms, a little consolidation can help new ideas grow, but too much of it slows down the biggest, most groundbreaking advances.

Read paper here:https://www.ndsu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/BankingConsolidationandInnovationintheUnitedStates_0.pdf

Olabode Amusan and Nof Yasir, doctoral students in NDSU's electrical and computer engineering program, have been accepted into the Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Foundry Bootcamp. The program helps founders transform research breakthroughs and early-stage ideas into fundable ventures.

Read full story at https://www.ndsu.edu/news/2026-05-29-ndsu-doctoral-students-selected-harvard-business-school-bootcamp

NDSU associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences, Ang Guo, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award of $702,662 for his project, “Electrically Encoded Innate Immune Sensing in Cardiomyocytes,” which focuses on how heart cells sense danger signals.

Professor Guo's primary research focuses on how heart cells respond to stress and disease.

Full story here: https://www.ndsu.edu/news/2026-05-13-ndsu-associate-professor-receives-nsf-career-award-study-how-heart-cells-sense

Congratulations, Fredricka Saunders!
Ph.D., Education: Institutional Effectiveness