News at SDState

Students, researchers and industry professionals from around the country gathered at South Dakota State University on Oct. 14 for the 2025 South Dakota Student Water Conference. The daylong event was designed to empower the next generation of water research professionals.

Adeline Flaskey, financial program assistant for the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering, has been named South Dakota State University’s Civil Service Employee of the Month for October.

Woodbine Productions and the South Dakota State University School of Performing Arts are bringing a world-class opera experience to campus. Teatro Lirico D’Europa, one of the world’s most active touring opera companies, will present its fully staged production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” in Brookings at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, at the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center.

South Dakota State University and its vast contributions to agriculture will be showcased during a television taping of the “AgDay College Roadshow” on campus Wednesday, Oct. 22. The public is invited to join SDSU students, faculty and staff for the taping.

The South Dakota State University School of Performing Arts invites the community to a voice recital featuring junior music education major Steiger Manson in a performance of works by Handel, Haydn, Schumann, Fauré and Mozart.

The Child and Family Resource Network at South Dakota State University is hosting its next “Common-Sense Parenting” class series starting Oct. 14.

A cancer pharmacologist is the speaker, but the message will be one appropriate to people in any field. Jared Barrott, an associate professor of cellular biology and physiology at Brigham Young University, will deliver the lecture “Think, Question, Innovate: The Pharmacist’s Edge” at the 35th annual Keo Glidden Smith Fall Convocation at 3 p.m. Oct. 20 in Founders Recital Hall in the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center on the South Dakota State University campus.

South Dakota State University honored its newest endowment holders during its fourth annual University Leadership Honors.

For the second consecutive year, student visits at the Engineering Career Fair topped 1,000, this time being a record 1,086 visits. The 2024 mark was 1,001. The Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering Career Fair was Sept. 17-18 at Club 71 and loge-level spaces in Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium on the South Dakota State University campus.

South Dakota State University Theatre and Dance will kick off its 2025-2026 season with the powerful drama “The Diary of Anne Frank.”