News at SDState

Brittney Meyer, professor of pharmacy practice in the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions at South Dakota State University, recently received an Excellence in Honors Mentorship Award from the Van D. and Barbara B. Fishback Honors College.

Minnesota Avenue in Sioux Falls is starting to look more yellow and blue. South Dakota State University pharmacy and respiratory care students began the spring semester on Jan. 12 in the newly renovated east two-thirds of the SDSU Metro Center at 33rd Street and Minnesota Avenue, after spending the past two years taking classes in the unremodeled portion of the building.

A new study from South Dakota State University's School of Health and Human Sciences indicates that fiber, carotenoids and various micronutrients may support healthy brain aging in older adults.

Hankui Zhang, associate professor in South Dakota State University's Department of Geography and Geospatial Sciences, will support the world's longest-running Earth observation mission. Image courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.

The average person likely has a very specific image in mind for what a laboratory looks like: white coats, protective goggles, blue latex gloves and half-filled beakers abound. An upcoming peer-reviewed journal sponsored by South Dakota State University explores research happening daily in a different setting across campus.

More than half of South Dakota’s landscape, around 24 million acres, is covered with the most abundant ecosystem in the world, rangeland. More than pretty scenery, the complex and varied environment is home to relationships among plants, animals and soil that were formed over millennia to mutually thrive and now play a crucial part in the South Dakota way of life.

South Dakota State University’s two largest relationship-building partners have consolidated into one organization, effective Jan. 1, 2026.

This Saturday, the South Dakota State University Department of Animal Science is partnering with the SDSU Athletics to host the 54th annual SDSU Pork Classic.

Brookings native Angela (Hatton) Lammers will deliver the keynote address for the fourth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Rally and Marade at South Dakota State University. The event begins at 10 a.m. Jan. 19 with a rally at Club 71 in Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium. A marade (march/parade) will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. either outdoors or in the Sanford-Jackrabbit Athletic Complex (depending on weather) followed by food and socializing in Club 71 from 12:15 to 1 p.m.

Researchers in South Dakota State University's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics will soon begin testing surface water samples for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).