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Two student engineering teams at SDSU spent their senior year on capstone design projects at Sanford Underground Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Facility. One team built a new mine rail cart for hauling liquid nitrogen underground. The other built a drone for inspecting hard to reach vertical shafts at the former gold mine at Lead. Both teams gained valuable experience they will take into their future careers.

The Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Robotics Club came home with best design honors after competing at the Vex Robotics World Championship in Dallas May 9-11.  VEX competitions make up the largest and fastest growing robotics engineering platform in the world with divisions for elementary and middle schools, middle and high schools and VEX U for colleges and universities. This year’s Vex U game involved placing rings onto various stakes — some stationary and others mounted on mobile goals that could be moved to corner zones to either double the team’s points or result in negative scoring,  In addition to winning the design award, the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ entry placed 13th out of 54 teams in the math division, one of two divisions in the Vex U competition.

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ pharmacy students outdid themselves in the 2024 North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination. Dan Hansen, dean of the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, said 56 of the 59 Pharm.D. graduates took the exam in 2024, and all 56 passed on their first attempt, giving SDSU a 100% pass rate.

Selections for the third class of Future Innovators of America Fellowships have been announced by the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering.

The Ness School of Management and Economics at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ will now offer both a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts in accounting following the program’s approval by the South Dakota Board of Regents.

The Wintrode Student Success and Opportunity Center, established in 2007, has made significant strides in its 16 years of operation, increasing its services to students by over 400%.

Greg Heiberger, an assistant professor in the College of Natural Sciences, led efforts to have Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ selected as one of seven metaversities in the United States by VictoryXR, a global leader in metaverse education. As a metaversity, SDSU will provide a virtual replica of campus for students to attend classes, whether they are on the main campus in Brookings or learning remotely.

Success in intercollegiate athletics at South Dakota State the past decade has been about as much on the competition field as it has been in the classroom.

Started as the Sioux Falls Academy in July 2021, SDSU Connect creates meaningful connections to individuals, organizations and communities in the state’s largest and fastest-growing city. The Sioux Falls Academy began with a 40-member task force that included campus partners for several areas of the university.

The Child and Family Resource Network (CFRN), established in 1990 as an outreach office at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½, has evolved into a state and locally supported early childhood enrichment program.