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Geb Bastian, assistant professor in South Dakota State University's School of Health and Human Sciences, conducted an exploratory study aimed at improving nutritional outreach efforts.

High school students wanting to keep their feet on the ground while still getting a good feel for what it would be like to live on Mars are encouraged to participate in the South Dakota Space Design Competition at South Dakota State University March 8-9. The contest is part of an international event sponsored by Industry Simulation Education, which has been designing aerospace engineering contests since 1984, and is being hosted in South Dakota by SDSU’s Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering.

Peter Benson, a concrete industry management major at South Dakota State University, topped 13 other competitors to win the 2025 Weatherton Award at the World of Concrete contest in Las Vegas Jan. 20-21. The competition requires students to make an 8-minute presentation on an internship, capstone project or research project with judging done by a panel of industry experts. Benson, a senior from Sioux Falls, gave a presentation on his summer 2024 internship at Buffalo Ridge Concrete, a local ready mix concrete producer. He spent the summer delivering concrete, which, he noted, “is a bit out of the norm for internships.”

Grace Jensen has cemented her name in concrete industry management program history at South Dakota State University. In January the sophomore from Glenwood, Minnesota, was notified that she is receiving one of the two $5,000 scholarships awarded annually by the American Society of Concrete Contractors. The SDSU program began in fall 2021 , and Jensen is the first Jackrabbit to receive the honor. Program director Tim Hostettler said he also never had a student win the award in the nine years he taught at California State-Chico.

First impressions weren’t misleading for Delaney Baumberger, a first-year graduate student in mechanical engineering at South Dakota State University. When she visited campus as a senior at Blair High School just north of Omaha, Nebraska, the school wasn’t as distant as the 216 miles would suggest. Her dad, Patrick Baumberger, and several uncles had graduated from the SDSU engineering program, “so I grew up hearing about its strong reputation. When it came time to tour colleges in the Midwest, SDSU was an obvious choice to check out.” One experience in particular helped her realize that attending Dad’s alma mater made sense.

Selections for the third class of Future Innovators of America Fellowships have been announced by the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering.

The Ness School of Management and Economics at South Dakota State University will now offer both a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts in accounting following the program’s approval by the South Dakota Board of Regents.

The Wintrode Student Success and Opportunity Center, established in 2007, has made significant strides in its 16 years of operation, increasing its services to students by over 400%.

Greg Heiberger, an assistant professor in the College of Natural Sciences, led efforts to have South Dakota State University selected as one of seven metaversities in the United States by VictoryXR, a global leader in metaverse education. As a metaversity, SDSU will provide a virtual replica of campus for students to attend classes, whether they are on the main campus in Brookings or learning remotely.

Success in intercollegiate athletics at South Dakota State the past decade has been about as much on the competition field as it has been in the classroom.