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½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ïalumni award nominations open
Submit your nomination by 5 p.m. Aug. 23, 2021

The ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹ÏFoundation annually recognizes excellence among ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ïalumni, volunteers, and corporate partners. Award recipients are selected by ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹ÏFoundation Trustees and recognized at Evening of Distinction, traditionally held in the spring. The Foundation is now accepting nominations for 2022. for submission details and to view past honorees.

½ñÈÕ³Ô¹ÏNight at the Twins
Get your tickets today!

There's still time to get your tickets for on Thursday, June 24, 2021, at 7:10 p.m. CT and join ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ïalumni and friends at the ballpark. Enjoy the crack of the bat, the cool night air, and an exclusive NDSU/Twins baseball cap. Seating and the exclusive NDSU/Twins caps are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis, so get your tickets today!

at Cowboy Jacks (126 N. Fifth St. Minneapolis, Minnesota 55403) at 5 p.m.

Challey Institute Spotlight: Dr. Clay Routledge
Challey Professor of Management focuses on our need for meaning

A psychologist by training, much of Clay Routledge's work focuses on the need for meaning in life. He has published more 100 scholarly papers and authored or co-edited five books. Clay's work is frequently featured in the media and has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, CBS News, ABC News, BBC News, CNN, CNBC, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and more. As a social commentator, Clay has authored articles for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, National Review, and Entrepreneur. He wrote the TED-Ed animated lesson "Why Do We Feel Nostalgia?" and appeared on NBC's The Overview. by visiting the Sheila and Robert Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth website.

Philanthropy in Action
Leveraging their legacy

For Keith '75 and Cathy '77 Peltier, establishing a planned gift with the North ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï University Foundation was the natural next step in their philanthropic giving. Cathy's mom graduated from NDSU; Keith's ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ïlineage goes back to his great-grandmother, Jessamine Burgum, who was the first female student at ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï(then North Dakota Agricultural College); and all three of the Peltier children are also ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ïgraduates. After decades of giving back in the form of scholarships, facility projects, and program support, Keith and Cathy were the first benefactors to take advantage of matching funds available through the In Our Hands Legacy Challenge when they documented their planned gift last summer.

The matching funds for the In Our Hands Legacy Challenge have been extended through Dec. 2021. Contact the ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹ÏFoundation Planned Giving Team to document your estate and benefit the ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ïfund of your choice today. Read more about the Peltiers on the ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹ÏFoundation's digital magazine page.

½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ïclass notes available online
Get updated on your ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ïclassmates anytime

Stay in the know and catch up with ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ïalumni online. ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ïobituaries and class notes are updated regularly on .

Campus News
Researchers visit Germans from Russia Collection

Two researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently visited The ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹ÏLibraries' Germans from Russia Heritage Collection to review the Father William C. Sherman Photograph Collection. Anna Andrzejewski, Bradshaw Knight Professor of Environmental Humanities and director of the Center for Culture, History, and the Environment, along with art history doctoral student Travis Olson, came to ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹ÏJune 8 to research homestead photos from Dunn, Hettinger, and Stark Counties in southwest North Dakota.

"We have wanted to visit this collection since March 2020 — a visit delayed by the pandemic. However, it was worth the wait," Andrzejewski said. "This collection of photographs and related material documents buildings that have been demolished or fallen into complete ruin. We now have a much better picture of what Germans from Russia homesteads looked like than we did before."

on NDSU's news page