2024 Edition II

Cover: NDSU Foundation Magazine | Fall 2024 Issue

Stories

Alejandro’s Symphony

Percussion performance major Alejandro López '25 is expanding the language of music at NDSU.

Photo: Peltier Family at the Peltier Complex ribbon cutting

The Power of Time

NDSU and North Dakota agriculture have been a part of the Joe ’51 and Norma ’23 (Skunes) Peltier family for generations.

Light on Her Feet

The memory of an outstanding athlete shines through NDSU women’s track and field superstar Nell Graham ’24.

Structures of Connection

Joanna Slominski ’04 wants us to think differently about construction — it’s more than bricks and concrete.

Banner: Glad You're Here

Glad You’re Here

NDSU students bring companionship and events to residents in memory care at Fargo’s Touchmark retirement community.

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.