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The International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators will have a team of assessors examine all aspects of the South Dakota State University Police Department’s policy and procedures, management, operation and support services starting Oct. 26.

developed procedures to reduce the amount of urine cultures ordered by physicians. Their work earned them the Network Star Award for the Veterans Integrated Service Network for the five-state, upper Midwest region. The team of clinical pharmacists and one infectious disease physician included Mike Lemon, Andrea Aylward and Kaitlyn Latour.

Adeline Flaskey, financial program assistant for the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering, has been named South Dakota State University’s Civil Service Employee of the Month for October.

Through two delayed flights, rescheduling, two pieces of lost luggage, a government shutdown, and a transportation strike that halted movement across France, two South Dakota State University students persevered to compete — and place second — in the 2025 Nantes Charrette Design Competition.

Gordon Niva was honored with the Jerome J. Lohr Award for Volunteer Leadership in recognition of his involvement and support of the South Dakota State University Foundation.

Woodbine Productions and the South Dakota State University School of Performing Arts are bringing a world-class opera experience to campus. Teatro Lirico D’Europa, one of the world’s most active touring opera companies, will present its fully staged production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” in Brookings at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, at the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center.

The South Dakota State University Plant Diagnostic Clinic has earned accreditation as a “Core Accredited Lab” from the National Plant Diagnostic Network. It is one of only four accredited labs at land-grant universities in the country.

The South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and South Dakota State Foundation Seed Stocks Division have released a new wheat variety to seed producers. The new hard red winter line will be available for farmers to purchase for fall 2026 planting.

The SDSU Alumni Association and SDSU Foundation will consolidate into one organization based on a unanimous vote in the first-ever joint meeting of their respective boards.

In the early 2000s, South Dakota State University used the tagline “You can go anywhere from here” in a number of ads to feature students and alumni who used SDSU as a launching pad to a variety of study abroad locations and high-profile careers. One of the featured students was Ryan Lefers, a farm kid from Corsica studying agricultural engineering, who had participated in a study abroad program in Egypt. The North African country would be just the start of Lefers’ Middle Eastern adventures.