Kathy Lowe, assistant director of financial aid in the Office of Financial Aid at Dickinson State University, has been elected by her peers as president-elect of the North Dakota Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NDASFAA.) Lowe was elected at the annual state conference held in Bismarck, N.D., April 11-13.

Computer science and graphic design student Zorast Gustavsp is this year's winner of the annual Dickinson State University "Battle of the Bandanas" contest.

Afton Garland and Leah Walters were named the Dickinson State University 2012 Outstanding Graduate Award winners at the Outstanding Graduate Luncheon held in the DSU Student Center Ballroom Friday, May 11.

Alyssa Spratta, Hettinger, N.D., has been accepted into the Peabody Institute of Music at Johns Hopkins University and will be attending in fall 2012. She will be studying trumpet under the instruction of Joe Burgstaller, former member of both Canadian Brass and Meridian Arts Ensemble and Edward Hoffman, assistant principal trumpet of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

The 2012 Dickinson State University spring class of business graduates scored in the top 29 percent in a nationwide business exam. Senior accounting major Emily Klym, Edgeley, N.D., scored in the top one percent of all business graduates across the United States. DSU seniors scoring in the top ten percent included, Mary Albrecht, Felix Cardoze, Alex Gates, Jeff Greenwood, Bradley Henke, Elizabeth Herr, Tanner Kautzman and Zach Keller.