November 2024

Agribusiness Award – 2024 – Steve Bobb

Growing up on the family farm and ranch near Richardton, North Dakota, inspired a life-long passion for learning, production agriculture, and people development in Steve Bobb ’82, the 2024 NDSU Harvest Bowl Agribusiness Award recipient.

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Growing up on the family farm and ranch near Richardton, North Dakota, inspired a life-long passion for learning, production agriculture, and people development in Steve Bobb ’82, the 2024 NDSU Harvest Bowl Agribusiness Award recipient.

NDSU Foundation announces 2025 Alumni Award recipients

The NDSU Foundation is thrilled to announce the 2025 NDSU Foundation Alumni Award recipients. These outstanding North Dakota State University alumni and partners will be honored for their accomplishments and contributions at Evening of Distinction, held April 24, 2025.

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The NDSU Foundation is thrilled to announce the 2025 NDSU Foundation Alumni Award recipients. These outstanding North Dakota State University alumni and partners will be honored for their accomplishments and contributions at Evening of Distinction, held April 24, 2025.

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 co-chaired 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.