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UND names Linder VP for marketing and communications

GRAND FORKS, N.D. – University of North Dakota President Mark Kennedy has appointed Meloney Golombiecki Linder to serve as vice president for marketing and communications. Linder will oversee marketing and creative services; video production; UND’s web presence and digital media. Linder has served as associate dean for communications, facilities and technology and chief communication officer for the University of Wisconsin (Madison) School of Business. Before that, she was the vice president of institutional advancement at the University of Texas at Brownsville.

A native of Fergus Falls, Minn., Linder holds a bachelor’s degree in mass communication with an emphasis in public relations from the University of Denver and a master’s degree in organizational management from Ashford University.

Kraus-Anderson Construction hires superintendent

BISMARCK, N.D. – Kraus-Anderson Construction has hired John Brashears as superintendent in the company’s Bismarck office.

Brashears comes to KA with more than 30 years of construction management experience. He previously served as superintendent with Consolidated Construction Co. in Bismarck. He also was the owner and operator of Oxbow Bend, a company whose truck fleet relocated oil-drilling rigs and transported brine water and crude oil.