November 19, 2021 @ 2:00 pm
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You’re invited to hear from members of the Peltier family and state leaders in agriculture at the groundbreaking and naming ceremony of the Peltier Complex. Join NDSU Agriculture and the Northern Crops Institute (NCI) to celebrate what will be NDSU’s largest academic facility, located in the southwest corner of campus.
The Peltier Complex will be a state-of-the-art agricultural facility designed to better serve NDSU students and faculty as well as the industry across the state, region, and beyond.
Hear from the following speakers:
John Glover | NDSU Foundation President/CEO
Dean L. Bresciani | NDSU President
North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum
Senator Rich Wardner | North Dakota Legislature
Senator Ronald Sorvaag | North Dakota Legislature
Greg Lardy | Vice President, Agricultural Affairs
Mark Jirik | Northern Crops Institute Director
Keith Peltier | Peltier Family
Eric Berg | Professor
Ana Magallanes Lopez | Doctoral Grad Research Assistant
“We believe this is a showcase building for agriculture in North Dakota and for marketing our products to the world. My dad, who’s not living anymore, was a great promoter of ag products. We thought it would be a great place to be able to honor him.”
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.