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The SDSU public health program celebrated National Public Health Week with two days of events focused on highlighting the impact of substance use disorder and related stigma in South Dakota.

The path to graduation isn’t always a straight line, but for alumni like Seth Lewis, each step shaped a passion for research and discovery.

A South Dakota State University pharmacy student organization has received three chapter achievement awards from the American Pharmacists Association’s Academy of Student Pharmacists.

Karla Hunter, professor in the South Dakota State University School of Communication and Journalism, is the recipient of the Jack Kay Award for Community Engagement and Applied Communication Scholarship from the Central States Communication Association.

The South Dakota State University College of Nursing is now accepting applicants for its new online Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.

While living in his hometown in Nigeria, Africa, John Akujobi recalls a tragic construction accident in which a bricklayer backing up a wheelbarrow didn’t realize his proximity to the edge of a four story scaffold and fell to his death. The incident stuck with him. As he progressed in his computer science studies and through conversations with his friends at South Dakota State University, Akujobi discovered the power of sensors, algorithms and machine learning. He realized those things hold the potential for preventing such future tragedies. His solution, a wearable safety system named AMBER – Affordable Multimodal Sensor-Based Environmental Risk Detector designed to alert workers in real-time of environmental hazards in their blind spots.

When it comes to grain harvesting, time is money and mess equals stress. Raven Industries (now CNH Industrial) developed a product to address those concerns, and Travis Burgers, a research engineer at CNH and an adjunct assistant professor in mechanical engineering at South Dakota State University, and CNH colleague Matt Horne developed a concept to test the effectiveness of the product before it even went on the market. As a result, Burgers and Horne won the 2025 Rain Bird Engineering Concept of the Year Award by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. It will be presented at the group’s annual international meeting in Toronto July 16.

Fred Boehm set out to become a medical doctor, certainly the pathway to a fulfilling career. However, well into his medical school education, Boehm discovered something else with an even greater potential to impact lives — biomedical research, or in Boehm’s case biostatistical research. Boehm, who is in his first year as a faculty member at South Dakota State University, said the message that changed the direction of his life was a sign at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Protecting Health, Saving Lives — Millions at a Time” is the school’s vision. That and the work demands of a new physician convinced Boehm to chart a new direction.

Jeremy Daniel, an associate professor at South Dakota State University, is among the inaugural class of fellows for the American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists. Daniel, who has been on the faculty of the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions for 10.5 years, received notice in February that he had been selected. He is among 47 fellows who will be recognized at the annual meeting of the American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists in Salt Lake City, Utah, April 28.

In a collaborative project with South Dakota State University's College of Nursing, Phuong Nguyen, assistant professor in the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering, will help facilitate nursing simulation programming research by utilizing eye-tracking technology.