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Two doctoral students in the South Dakota State University College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences have received prestigious Certified Angus Beef awards. Becca (Grimes) Francis and Sydni (Borders) Lammers were among eight students to receive graduate awards for their leadership experiences, academic standing and work in the beef industry.

Researchers from South Dakota State University's Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics contributed to a global study that found cyanide — a highly poisonous chemical in large doses — plays a major role in the normal functioning of our bodies.

Innovative drone technology proposed by a quartet of South Dakota State University mechanical engineering students has lifted them to the finals of NASA contest. The team was one of eight schools chosen to compete in the finals of the NASA Gateways to Blue Skies Competition at Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, California, May 20-21.

In new research from South Dakota State University, a novel framework for accelerating the speed at which reinforcement learning algorithms are trained has been developed by researchers in the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering.

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.

Xufei Yang, a South Dakota State University assistant professor and Extension environmental quality engineer, is developing a novel method for assessing surface water quality through drone imagery and smells.

Avian metapneumovirus is a highly contagious virus causing respiratory and reproductive disorders in poultry, leading to significant animal welfare concerns and economic losses. The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research is providing South Dakota State University a $150,000 Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research grant to develop a diagnostic tool and vaccine for the virus. SDSU is providing matching funds for a total investment of $300,000.

“Thinking classrooms” was the topic for presentations made by South Dakota State University graduate student Annamarie Dobbs and professor Christine Larson at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Spring Conference in Kansas City Feb. 5-7. A thinking classroom is a concept developed by math educator Peter Liljedahl to stimulate students to think more during classroom instruction.

Moving trucks won’t be needed when the new head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at South Dakota State University moves into the third-floor executive suite in Crothers Engineering Hall. Guanghui Hua will only have to move a few doors down the hallway when the environmental engineering professor becomes department head June 22. Hua was notified Feb. 7 by Sanjeev Kumar, dean of the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering, that his candidacy was successful.

Ideas expressed by a South Dakota State University sophomore for advancing sustainable practices within the concrete industry has earned him a $2,000 scholarship from an industry partner. Jakob Burckhard, a concrete industry management major from Brookings, was one of five essay winners selected by CarbonCure, a Canadian-based carbon solutions technology firm for concrete.