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SDSU Poll explores trust in physicians, COVID-19 booster shots

The COVID-19 pandemic is three years old, and two researchers at South Dakota State University have begun exploring the prevailing effects of the 21st century's defining event thus far.   David Wiltse, an associate professor of political science, and Filip Viskupic, an assistant professor of political science, collectively make up the SDSU Poll, a nonpartisan research unit that analyzes issues of...

S.D. Supreme Court traveling session coming to SDSU

South Dakota State University and the School of American and Global Studies will host the South Dakota Supreme Court next week for its March 2023 Term of Court. The justices will be on campus next Tuesday through Thursday, March 21-23, for the court’s spring traveling session, with most public events taking place at the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center, 1601 University Boulevard, Brookings. O...

Aviation grad leads fighter jet team to be featured at Sioux Falls Airshow

Editor’s note: This feature originally appeared in the Summer 2022 edition of STATE Magazine, a publication of the South Dakota State University Alumni Association.    Aimee Fiedler didn’t grow up in a military family and no one in her family was a pilot, but by sixth grade the South Texan knew she wanted to be a military pilot. Now a U.S.

SDSU students compete in the Undergraduate Range Management Exam at the Society for Range Management Annual Meeting

A team of 11 SDSU students competed in the Undergraduate Range Management Exam held at the Society for Range Management Annual Meeting in Boise, Idaho Feb. 12-16.

Speaker to share impact of nursing-engineering collaboration

An engineer who has been working with the health care field for nearly two decades helping clinicians and patients fix problems and improve outcomes will share a message of collaboration on the South Dakota State University campus later this month. Jenna Marquard, a professor and the Cora Meidl Siehl Chair in Nursing Research for Improved Patient Care in the School of Nursing at the University of...

Photographer Brian Adams to deliver Pulitzer Lecture

Photographer Brian Adams will deliver the annual Pulitzer Lecture at South Dakota State University. The lecture will take place at 7 p.m. March 23 in the University Student Union Hobo Day Gallery. The event is free and open to the public. The Pulitzer Center is an award-winning nonprofit journalism organization dedicated to supporting independent international journalism that U.S.

SDSU Feed Mill Hires New Manager

Trent McKee, a 2016 South Dakota State University animal science alum, was recently hired as the new manager of the SDSU Feed Mill. Throughout McKee's coursework at SDSU, he learned the basics of animal management and husbandry for the horses, swine, sheep, beef and dairy cattle housed at the SDSU livestock units.

11 individuals, department honored at SDSU’s Global Achievement Awards

South Dakota State University’s Office of International Affairs honored 11 individuals and the Department of Animal Science at South Dakota State University’s second annual Global Achievement Awards. The Office of International Affairs, as part of its month-long celebration of International Education Month, recognized faculty, staff and students who have made significant contributions to the univ...

College of Nursing receives grant to increase number of qualified nurse preceptors

South Dakota State University's College of Nursing is partnering with Montana State University through a four-year, nearly $4 million grant to increase the number of skilled, qualified clinical nursing faculty and preceptors in the region.  The funding is from the Health Resources and Services Administration of the United State Department of Health and Human Services.  The project, titled "The...

Brookings Chamber Music Society presents Ensemble Chaconne

The Brookings Chamber Music Society continues its season at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 20, with a performance by Boston-based Ensemble Chaconne. The concert will take place in the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center on the campus of South Dakota State University. Ensemble Chaconne, comprised of Peter H.