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Garry honored by national engineering society

Byron Garry, an associate professor in South Dakota State University's Department of Construction and Operations Management, was honored by the American Society for Engineering Education as the "North Midwest Section Outstanding Campus Representative, 2023."...

Faculty Research Spotlight: Michael Puthawala

Last semester, Michael Puthawala made the 8,000-mile journey to Kigali, Rwanda, for the 11th annual International Conference on Learning Representations. Puthawala, a South Dakota State University assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the CAPITAL Services scholar in artificial intelligence and machine learning, is a relatively new faculty member at SDSU but is already making significant contributions to his academic area of expertise: machine learning.

SDSU Archives, S.D. Ag Museum support budding historians through grant

Sioux Falls middle school students in the National History Day (NHD) program will be able to strengthen their research projects and become familiar with a university library and archives, thanks to an SDSU Connect Challenge Grant awarded to the SDSU Archives and Special Collections and the South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum.

McKenna Sick receives 2023 SDSU Outstanding Swine Education and Research Facility Student Employee Award

McKenna Sick, a sophomore majoring in animal science and working to obtain her swine certificate at South Dakota State University, received the Outstanding Swine Education and Research Facility Student Employee Award at the 2023 SDSU Animal Science Banquet.

School of Design redesigns historic, abandoned train depot in Joplin, Missouri

What should be done about old, abandoned and decaying buildings? That's the question faculty members and students in South Dakota State University's School of Design set out to answer. ...

Lohr College of Engineering welcomes new cohort of student-researchers

A new cohort of eager student researchers have descended on South Dakota State University's campus for another session of the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program.

SDSU’s Dakota Lakes Research Farm to host field day June 29

South Dakota State University’s Dakota Lakes Research Farm will host its annual field day June 29. The field day will begin at 3 p.m. (CST) and run until dark. Two field tours will be offered, with each lasting roughly 1 1/2 hours and each running twice. Visitors will have the opportunity to attend both tours.

Can wild foods positively contribute to a person's diet?

Jennifer Zavaleta Cheek, an assistant professor in the Department of Natural Resource Management, worked with research teams to collect diet data from women in two rural districts in eastern India to determine the contributions wild foods had on their diets.

Robert Streeter: International advocate for wildlife conservation

Robert Streeter, a 1963 wildlife conservation alum from near Madison, South Dakota, has left an impactful and lasting mark on the conservation and management of wetlands and wildlife across North America through his 30-plus year career with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Ducks Unlimited.

SDSU selected for FAA’s UAS training program

The Federal Aviation Administration has selected South Dakota State University’s Department of Geography and Geospatial Sciences for the Unmanned Aircraft Systems-Collegiate Training Initiative (UAS-CTI) program.