2024 Edition I

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Stories

The Gift of Possibility

Entrepreneurial NDSU students are getting hands-on experience in the local business ecosystem in a brand-new entrepreneurship fellowship program.

2024 Award Recipients

2024 Award Recipients Celebrate outstanding alumni and industry leaders whose experiences with NDSU have inspired trailblazing research, workforce development, community enrichment, and...

5 Colleges, 3 Questions

Campus leaders cast their transformative vision for the future and share how NDSU alumni, friends, and industry partners can get involved.

Build the Bridge, Make the Change

Bison Bridge supports first-year multicultural students who are first-generation or Pell-eligible as they transition to college and make NDSU feel like home.

Agriculture’s Miracle Bacteria

With support from Richard '65 and Linda Offerdahl, NDSU researchers are working toward a new evolutionary event that will reduce the cost...

Margaret and her husband, Hugh Veit ’79, established the Eleanor S. Fitzgerald Memorial Graduate Student Scholarship to support NDSU students earning advanced degrees in the Department of Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences or the Department of Human Development and Family Science.

Core areas of home economics remain part of current NDSU degree programs such as accounting; apparel, retail merchandising, and design; education; family and consumer science; financial planning; human development and family science; interior design; and nutrition science.

Home economics programs opened doors, particularly for women, to earn college degrees and pursue careers in education, Extension, state and federal government, business and industry, health care, and more. NDAC listed domestic economy as one of its courses in its founding year, 1890.

Established by Dr. Teresa Conner, dean of the NDSU College of Health and Human Sciences, and cochaired by Dr. Margaret Fitzgerald ’83 and Col. Esther Meyers ’75, the Wisdom Keepers provide support and share their knowledge and expertise with students, faculty, staff, and leadership in the College.

The home management house at NDAC was the first facility built on a college campus specifically for home management practice. In 1954, it was named in honor of Alba Bales, the first female academic dean at NDAC.