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New research from South Dakota State University's Department of Natural Resource Management examines how different states are stopping the spread of invasive carp.

A new study from South Dakota State University reveals reductions in tillage intensity have led to an increase in soil organic carbon levels and an increase in corn and soybean yields.

South Dakota State University Endowed Alfred Chair associate professor in dairy manufacturing Maneesha Mohan is utilizing nanosized bubbles to improve the efficiency of dairy wastewater treatment.

A Brookings-based animal health company, Medgene, is leading a revolution in the development of veterinary vaccines that is turning the tide in the endless battle against animal disease.

Graduate students make up about 11% of the student population across 57 master’s degree and Ph.D. programs and 30 graduate certificates offered at South Dakota State University. Each graduate student is immersed in research and scholarship with the support of their advisor and the Graduate School staff. April 7-11 is Graduate Student Appreciation Week, a great opportunity to highlight a few graduate students at SDSU and the work they are accomplishing. 

Researchers from South Dakota State University's Department of Natural Resource Management are leading a collaborative effort to increase the availability and accessibility of native seeds.

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.

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.