November 2, 2026
The convenience of battery-powered tools has all but made cord-and-plug tools obsolete. Battery-powered tools provide safety from shock, they’re portable and are easier to store than corded tools. Taking care of your battery-powered tools will help extend the life of the tool as well as the batteries.
October 23, 2026
Kimberly Vachal named director of NDSU’s Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute. Vachal will begin as director on November 2. She has been with UGPTI for nearly three decades conducting research focused on agricultural safety and traffic safety. She succeeds Denver Tolliver who is retiring after more than 40 years at NDSU, including 14 years as UGPTI’s director.
October 20, 2026
This quarter’s newsletter is unofficially centered around Richard Baum’s Inside America’s Opioid Crisis: 12 Hard Lessons for Today’s Drug War. It changed some of my long-held beliefs regarding addiction, expanded on others, and was an excellent road map as to how we got here and where we need to go. This issue also seemed like the perfect opportunity to introduce or re-introduce the Sequential Intercept Model (SIM).
October 20, 2026
Truck platooning offers a promising approach to reducing fuel consumption and emissions while increasing freight transport capacity, yet its adaptability to varied roadway infrastructure remains a critical research gap. This webinar examines a project that addresses this need through the design and prototyping of a dynamic truck platooning regulatory system. Presenter Yu “Fred” Song, PhD, whose research centers on traffic operations and safety, driver behavior, intelligent transportation systems, and vehicle automation, will share insights from this work. Before joining the University of Wyoming, Dr. Song conducted research at the Connecticut Transportation Institute at the University of Connecticut.
November 2, 2026The convenience of battery-powered tools has all but made cord-and-plug tools obsolete. Battery-powered tools provide safety from shock, they’re portable and are easier to store than corded tools. Taking care of your battery-powered tools will help extend the life of the tool as well as the batteries.
October 23, 2026Kimberly Vachal named director of NDSU’s Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute. Vachal will begin as director on November 2. She has been with UGPTI for nearly three decades conducting research focused on agricultural safety and traffic safety. She succeeds Denver Tolliver who is retiring after more than 40 years at NDSU, including 14 years as UGPTI’s director.
October 20, 2026This quarter’s newsletter is unofficially centered around Richard Baum’s Inside America’s Opioid Crisis: 12 Hard Lessons for Today’s Drug War. It changed some of my long-held beliefs regarding addiction, expanded on others, and was an excellent road map as to how we got here and where we need to go. This issue also seemed like the perfect opportunity to introduce or re-introduce the Sequential Intercept Model (SIM).
October 20, 2026Truck platooning offers a promising approach to reducing fuel consumption and emissions while increasing freight transport capacity, yet its adaptability to varied roadway infrastructure remains a critical research gap. This webinar examines a project that addresses this need through the design and prototyping of a dynamic truck platooning regulatory system. Presenter Yu “Fred” Song, PhD, whose research centers on traffic operations and safety, driver behavior, intelligent transportation systems, and vehicle automation, will share insights from this work. Before joining the University of Wyoming, Dr. Song conducted research at the Connecticut Transportation Institute at the University of Connecticut.