News at SDState

South Dakota State University’s Jackrabbits Forensics team capped another landmark season with a historic showing — including two students’ national championship and another’s All-American honor — at the 2026 American Forensic Association National Speech Tournament.

South Dakota State University math and physics double major Mason Pulse of Salem has become only the 12th SDSU student to be selected as a Goldwater Scholar. This is the 40th year in which the Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation has presented awards to support talented college sophomores and juniors who aspire to become this nation’s next generation of researchers in science, engineering and mathematics. There are 454 awards being presented for 2026-27. The students were selected from a field of 1,485 students nominated by 482 schools. Pulse becomes the first SDSU recipient since Timothy Paris in 2020.

SDSU's growing teacher education program — including a newly designed elementary education degree — is preparing future educators through early hands-on classroom experiences and a curriculum built to meet today’s varied student needs.

South Dakota State University researchers calibrated thousands of years of bison existence records with future projected weather patterns to forecast a significant northwest shift in suitable living conditions for the North American bison.