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Two South Dakota State University graduate students from the Department of Natural Resource Management received recognition for their research and presentations at the 2025 annual meeting of the South Dakota Chapter of The Wildlife Society held recently in Brookings.

The Child and Family Resource Network at South Dakota State University is hosting its next “Common-Sense Parenting” class series starting March 25.

With 635 students in attendance, the Feb. 12-13 Engineering Career Fair proved to be a great opportunity for student of all grade levels to meet prospective employers. There were 288 students on hand Feb. 12 and 347 on Feb. 13 while the employer count was 101 on Feb. 12 and 90 on Feb. 13. Twenty-five firms attended both days.

The South Dakota State University School of Performing Arts has been tapped to host the North American Saxophone Alliance Region Three Conference March 7-9. SDSU saxophone and jazz lecturer Yiqun Chen is the conference organizer.

The Department of Dairy and Food Science at South Dakota State University hosted the 2025 North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge Midwest Regional Competition this month, welcoming 113 students from 14 universities and technical schools in collaboration with a regional dairy.

Bradley Snyder, South Dakota State University’s instructor of low brass, will present a faculty recital at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 3, in Founders Recital Hall at the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center.

The annual South Dakota State University Celebration of Faculty Excellence recognized 28 faculty members, researchers and scholars Tuesday. The event honors faculty members in the university's colleges for outstanding research, teaching and service.

The South Dakota State University School of Performing Arts will present cultural historian Joseph Horowitz and French classical pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet in a lecture-recital titled “Ravel and Jazz” on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 7:30 p.m. in the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center.

The South Dakota State University School of Performing Arts and the School of American and Global Studies are partnering with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra of Sioux Falls to present a forum titled “Music as an Instrument of Diplomacy” on Monday, Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m. in the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center.

High school students wanting to keep their feet on the ground while still getting a good feel for what it would be like to live on Mars are encouraged to participate in the South Dakota Space Design Competition at South Dakota State University March 8-9. The contest is part of an international event sponsored by Industry Simulation Education, which has been designing aerospace engineering contests since 1984, and is being hosted in South Dakota by SDSU’s Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering.