UNDSMHS Logos

A look at UNDSMHS Web logos through the years ...

This logo was one of the first (perhaps the first) used on a UNDSOM homepage, back around 1994-1995. The "Fat Worms" logo was the official logo of the "School of Medicine" as we were called back then.

In those days, people used "Mosaic" as their browser, and just about all webpages had grey backgrounds.

Bevelled edges on graphics were also very popular back then.

Around 1996, it became obvious that the "Fat Worms" were going away, and this intermediate logo was used for a few months.

The irregular edge was a distinct contrast to the hard geometric shape of the previous logo - made possible by improved browsers that supported transparent GIFs

Dr. Roger Sopher referred to this as the "Cowpie logo"

New SMHS Logo

This logo appeared on the webserver on the same day a ceremony was held in the new research building to unveil the new "School of Medicine and Health Sciences" logo. It remained for many years and has also appeared on several department homepages, and printed materials.

We did manage to save a copy of the last homepage to use this logo. Some of the links will probably keep working for a long time.

The cream-colored paper-texture background was shamelessly ripped off from Dr. David Theige's Internal Medicine homepage.

This new logo and set of bottons appeared Jan 1st, 2000 - to celebrate the new year.

There was some grumbling when this first appeared on users' screens - the previous logo and homepage had been used for such a long time, that some users were a little bit lost when the links they were used to seeing were moved to different locations. Previously, when the logo changed, the actual links on the homepage had remained fairly constant.

Fortunately, nobody seems to have been actually killed by the upheaval.


*School of Medicine & Health Sciences*

OK, I admit the previous homepage was a bit too green.

The president's office sent out a memo laying out some guidelines for webpages associated with the university, which included having a black banner across the top of each page, and contact info on the bottom. This was a perfect excuse to rework the green monster, and on April 11th 2001 this new design was put into place (right in the middle of the near-great flood of 2001).

The page arrangements were completely unchanged, and the icons were identical to the previous version - but didn't have the flashy push-down effect when clicked on (cutting the number of images to download in half). The black icon labels show up much better on the cream-colored background.

The green-and-cream colors are similar to the color scheme in the hallways outside the MSN lecture halls - and the cream is also a bit of a throwback to the cream-colored background from two homepages ago (the late 1990s).

UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences
501 N. Columbia Rd.
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9037
(701) 777-2514
dean@medicine.nodak.edu

Barry Pederson <barryp@medicine.nodak.edu>
Revised 7/26/2001