News at SDState

Adeline Flaskey, financial program assistant for the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was SDSU’s Civil Service Employee of the Month for October. She has worked at SDSU since May 2018 and has shown exemplary performance, warm interpersonal skills and positive leadership, her nominators reported. They described her as a diligent worker with high attention to detail.

With loud enthusiasm often reserved for athletic events, students, faculty and staff from South Dakota State University’s agricultural programs showed up in full force to welcome a television taping of RFD-TV’s “AgDay College Roadshow” on the SDSU campus Oct. 22.

Step back in time for a magical evening of laughter, music and timeless cinema as the South Dakota State University School of Performing Arts presents two of Charlie Chaplin’s most beloved silent films, “The Pawnshop” (1916) and “The Kid” (1921), with live organ accompaniment provided by acclaimed silent film musician Ben Model.

More than 70 South Dakota State University undergraduate students will showcase their agriculture industry internship experiences at Precision Connect ’25 Thursday, Nov. 6, at the Raven Precision Agriculture Center.

Twenty South Dakota State University Professional Program in Veterinary Medicine students were honored at the annual Blue Coat Ceremony on Oct. 4. The first-year students were each presented with a personalized blue Carhartt work coat sponsored by a regional veterinarian to welcome them into the veterinary profession, and to South Dakota.

South Dakota State University’s Concert Choir will present its fall concert program, “Pathways of Light: Journeys of Faith, Spirit and Song,” during a regional tour Oct. 26-29, followed by a home performance on at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 2, in the Larson Memorial Concert Hall at the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center.

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.