Meeting the Technological Needs of its Students

As a fifth-year Doctor of Pharmacy student, Sabrina Wolfe (Class of 2021, Pharmacy) knows just how vital Aldevron Tower, the new addition to Sudro Hall, is to her program. It’s designed to give students an experience that’s as close as possible to working in a real integrated health care system. That means practicing emergency scenarios with simulated patients, advanced medical manikins, and an open lab environment that allows for more interaction with professors. These advances have led Sabrina to choose a more ambitious career path: “With everything I’ve learned, I’m really thinking of doing a residency in pharmaceutical genomics, which is the personalization of medicine based on genetics.”

Sabrina Wolfe, Pharmacy

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.