Heritage Renewal

One line of the center's work during the coming year will be supported by NDSU's Ozbun Economic Development Award, administered by the Office of the President. This is an annual award of funding for faculty activity beneficial to the economic development of North Dakota. The project supported by the award is "Newcomer Narratives," an effort to collect the stories of newcomers to North Dakota in order to determine how best to market the redevelopment of the state. Collaborating faculty in this project will be John Helgeland, Religious Studies, and Charles Okigbo, Communication. Watch for more information about the project as it shapes up; material will be posted in the activities column at right.

Remembrance in Stone is the (tentative) title of a website under development by the Center for Hieritage Renewal, in cooperation with the students in HIST 489, the Senior Seminar in History at NDSU. Students in the seminar have been writing papers about historical monuments of the northern plains, considering them as studies in collective memory. Their research and fieldwork form the basis for the website.