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South Dakota State University's Haarberg Drug, Disease and Delivery Research Center is spurring economic development as it progresses in finding new treatments for cancer and other diseases.

Nurses with bachelor’s degrees who are looking for additional paths for advancing their careers can find options in South Dakota State University’s College of Nursing.

Students, researchers and industry professionals from around the country gathered at South Dakota State University on Oct. 14 for the 2025 South Dakota Student Water Conference. The daylong event was designed to empower the next generation of water research professionals.

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.

New research from South Dakota State University's Ness School of Management and Economics finds that cost share programs help farmers overcome barriers to cover crop adoption and creates momentum for non-cost share participants to also adopt the practice.

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.

Kinchel Doerner named program director for research integrity and compliance

Before South Dakota was a state, before the Dakota Agricultural College became South Dakota State University and even before the United States Weather Bureau, the precursor to the National Weather Service, was formed, there were people who recognized the value of collecting weather data. The first iteration of a weather station in Brookings began recording daily temperature and precipitation totals on July 1, 1888.

Four new faculty members have joined the Lohr College of Engineering this fall.

Caden Fischer, of Menno, is in his first year of graduate school, pursuing a master’s degree in mathematics. After his junior year, he participated in Research Experience for Undergraduates at South Dakota State University. That lead to him becoming a Future Innovator of America during his senior year. That lead to a summer fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory this past summer.