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South Dakota State University's Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering will serve as the host of a new National Science Foundation-backed Research Experiences for Undergraduates site, aimed at giving students experience with cutting-edge research in energy and power systems.

As a fifth grader, Julia Steffl commandeered the family kitchen for a science project to research how yeast works. Today, her research is in the Dakota BioWorx facility east of the South Dakota State University campus, where she works as a Pioneer BioTech student employee. There, she applies the centuries-old practice of fermentation by using high-tech equipment in a Dakota BioWorx lab to hopefully produce a product that will make life better for her family’s Minnesota farm and improve the lot for all farmers by creating another ag-based product. Steffl is a junior agricultural and biosystems engineering major from Callaway, Minnesota, about an hour east of Fargo, North Dakota.

“Cool your jets” might have been advice your mother gave you when you got a little hot under the collar. For Connor Matthies, it’s a science project — in a sense, anyway. Matthies, a senior mechanical engineering major from Hartford, is one of eight Future Innovators of America this school year.

Delaney Wilson grew up hearing about South Dakota State University, but she said all those good things didn’t sink in until she visited campus herself.

Douglas Raynie, professor emeritus and former head of South Dakota State University's Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics, visited Egypt’s Beni Suef University in November 2025 as part of the U.S. Fulbright Specialist Program.

Joseph Gladden Hutton, a professor who served in South Dakota State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts' agronomy department between 1911 and 1939, was the college's first soil scientist and saw trouble brewing long before the drought took hold.

Funding from the Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety Education and Research Center will support this 12-month project.

Forward-thinking investments in key areas of strategic importance will help SDSU researchers address the complex challenges facing South Dakota, the U.S. and the world.

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.