NDSU Graduate School

Graduate certificates are a great way to gain specialized knowledge, enhance your resume, and – if you’re interested in the related master’s program – complete a significant chunk of required coursework.

Most grad certificates require three or four classes. Certificate program applications don’t require recommendation letters and most don’t require a statement of purpose.

Today, we’re featuring certificates related to HEALTH and COMMUNITY; check out the list here:

🩺 Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner

🏃🏻‍➡️ Advanced Coaching Education

🏃🏻‍♂️‍➡️ Advanced Physical Education Teaching

😷 Applied Epidemiology

🌱 Community Development

💳 Family Financial Planning

💊 Foundations of Mental Health Care

👴🏽 Gerontology

🏥 Healthcare Administration

🏈 Intercollegiate Athletic Administration

✍🏾 Professional Writing

😷 Public Health

📈 Public Policy Evaluation

🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️ Supervision & Management in Physical Education & Coaching

👦🏻 Youth Development

👦🏻 Youth Program Management & Evaluation

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 has named Joel Hektner Interim Dean of the College of Graduate and Interdisciplinary Studies following an internal search. Hektner, who has led the Department of Human Development and Family Science for the past 11 years, begins in the role today. Welcome, Dr. Hektner!

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

Springtime at NDSU

Congratulations, once again, to all graduates!

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

Congratulations, Nagesh Yadav H G!
M.S., Coatings & Polymeric Materials

Congratulations, Jainab Tabassum Banu!
Ph.D., Rhetoric, Writing and Culture