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Four South Dakota State University recent and soon-to-be graduates will be featured speakers at the university’s 139th commencement on May 10 at First Bank & Trust Arena. SDSU will have three ceremonies as more than 1,700 students plan to walk across the stage for their degrees.

The South Dakota State University theatre and dance program received four awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for its production of “Fuddy Meers.”

The South Dakota State University Foundation honored three generations of the Wintrode family as this year’s Philanthropic Family of the Year.

America’s newest concrete industry management academic program is continuing to turn heads as a result of student achievement. The latest feather in the cap for the program at South Dakota State University is a $10,000 scholarship won by sophomore concrete industry management major Kate Connor of Winfred. She was notified April 7 that she was the recipient of the Advancing Organizational Excellence Fellowship, which is awarded through the Concrete Industry Management trade association. She is the fourth student in the program to win a national award this semester.

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

Brookings has been ranked the No. 9 best college town in the Midwest in RentCafe’s 2025 Best College Towns in the U.S. report. The recognition places Brookings ahead of all other college towns in South Dakota and in neighboring states of Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and North Dakota.

South Dakota State University’s School of American and Global Studies announces the six students named to the inaugural cohort of the Mike Huether Public Service Academy.

What’s a Midwesterner’s pipe dream? How about sitting in the living room recliner while clearing your driveway with a remote-control snowblower? It’s not a pipe dream for four South Dakota State University mechanical engineering majors who will demonstrate their invention at the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering’s Engineering Expo April 22. This is one of about 40 projects that will be on display at the Expo, which is an opportunity for seniors to showcase their capstone efforts. Other examples are a telemedicine app for veterinarians remotely monitoring an animal and a drone that will inspect shafts in the Sanford Underground Research Facility.

The Women in Aviation Club, as described by Madeline Davis, is a community and support system that promotes professional development within aviation, focused on women in South Dakota State University’s aviation program. As its president, Davis hopes to take the Women in Aviation Club to the next level. There are about 50 women enrolled in the aviation program at SDSU, and she hopes to motivate as many of them as she can to join the club.

When NASA announced the finalists for its prestigious RASC-AL space design contest, South Dakota State University had doubly good reasons to celebrate. Both of its entries in the Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concept-Academic Linkage contest were selected in the small lunar servicing and maintenance robot division. A total of 14 teams were selected in three divisions.