Katie Beedy

For close to five years, Dr. Val Marinov worked quietly alongside students and faculty at the NDSU Research and Technology Park to develop cutting-edge technology for microelectronics assembly. The technology, known as Laser…

Healthy walking habits have repeatedly been shown to improve both physical and mental health-related quality of life. So when both of their grandmothers fell around the same time and were forced to rely on walking…

For Rob Fuglie, inventor of Nots! Snacks, the recipe for success starts with four simple ingredients and a severe food allergy. Fuglie’s young son suffers from anaphylaxis, a serious allergic to reaction…

In 2015, the craft beer industry brought in more than $22 billion– a 16% growth in sales from the year prior. Small breweries are big business nowadays, and few know the business…

In today’s special education classrooms, the method of monitoring and intervening in problematic behaviors is still predominantly paper-and-pencil. It is subjective, inconsistent, and time-consuming– making it all-too easy for students to slip through the cracks.…

Travis Kiefer likes to do things a little differently. Upon graduating from Groton High School in 2006, he enrolled at Stanford and became the first from his small-town South Dakota school to get…

In the United States, 80 percent of kids with a diagnosable anxiety disorder and 60 percent of kids with diagnosable depression do not recieve the treatment they need— numbers which, to clinical…

Mickey Quinn is no stranger to the ever-shifting tides of the fashion industry. Working in the retail operations department at Coldwater Creek in the late 90s and early 2000s, she watched as…

Happy Startup Day! Startup Day began in 2013, when Representatives Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) 
and Jared Polis (D-Colo.) launched the first annual Startup Day Across America as part of a bipartisan, bicameral…

Emerging Prairie just keeps growing. Last February, we welcomed Edie Ramstad of Weave Got Maille and Premier Anodizing to our Board of Directors. This week, we added three more of Fargo’s finest to the team.…