Aakers Business College will offer its first online degree program starting April 5, college officials announced this week.
The two-year associate of applied science degree will have three areas of emphasis: financial accounting, forensic accounting, and banking and finance.
Aakers began offering online courses last year, but this is the first full online program.
Greta Nelson, director of the college's Bismarck campus, said demand for online programs has been "overwhelming."
"A full program online is all about convenience and flexibility for the student. In today's fast-paced society, we feel the demand for this type of training option will only continue to grow," said Betty Largent, director of Aakers' Fargo campus.
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Aakers can be reached at www.Aakers.edu .
Exchange deals inked
North Dakota State University has signed exchange agreements with five overseas universities.
The agreements allow undergraduate students to pay tuition and fees to NDSU and only costs of living and books at the host institution.
The exchange schools are the Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus, Denmark; Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia; Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, United Kingdom; University of Burgos, Burgos, Spain; and University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia.
Professor gets grant
An assistant chemistry professor at Concordia College is using a $532,000 federal grant to buy a laser and other equipment to advance his research on the ultra-fast transfer of energy in liquid molecules.
Darin Ulness has developed a technique that involves the use of "noisy light" to gather information about the molecules, making it easier for undergraduates to study the field.
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The National Science Foundation awards the CAREER research grants to young faculty members within six years of earning their doctorate degrees. Only 234 grants were awarded this year in all fields of science, including 35 in chemistry.
One criteria of the grant was that it be used to improve the college's science curriculum and research. The laser will be used in chemistry and physics classes. Ulness also will hire a post-doctoral researcher.
At the end of the five-year grant, Ulness said he hopes to write another grant proposal to develop his research into a way to image individual cells through molecular vibrations, much like an MRI.
Pomeroy plays prof
Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., shared his views on the nation's budget deficit and the polarization of politics Friday with NDSU students in professor Craig Ramsdell's political ideologies class.
Pomeroy talked at length about how gerrymandering -- redistricting so that one party has the majority of voters -- has left the House with only about 40 competitive districts out of 435 total seats.
Because of its lone House seat, North Dakota always has a competitive race, "which means we really have to hustle," Pomeroy said.
Pomeroy is being challenged this year by Republican Duane Sand.
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