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Marney hired as director of SDSU Extension

Allie Arp — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:30:40 -0500

Mandy Marney has been hired as director of SDSU Extension and associate dean of the Ģ��Ƶ College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences. She started her new role on June 22.

Addressing the rural nursing crisis

Addison DeHaven — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:31:26 -0500

Three questions with Theresa Garren-Grubbs, assistant professor in SDSU's College of Nursing

Vice President Scholl set to retire

Addison DeHaven — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:16:24 -0500

Daniel Scholl, Ģ��Ƶ's vice president for research and economic development, is set to retire in December after 15 years of service to the university.

South Dakota students excel at 2026 National History Day Contest

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:02:00 -0500

Seventy-three students from eight South Dakota school districts recently competed in the National History Day Contest, held in College Park, Maryland, June 14-18. The students who participated in the national contest were the top entries from the state contest held on April 8 at Ģ��Ƶ in Brookings.

Unique, long-term research updates to be highlighted at SDSU Dakota Lakes Ģ��Ƶ Farm Field Day

Allie Arp — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:56:25 -0500

All are invited to learn more about agronomy research in central South Dakota, including oat and wheat trial updates, crop rotation and irrigation work and tours of decades-long field trials at the Ģ��Ƶ Dakota Lakes Ģ��Ƶ Farm Field Day, the last Friday in June.

Robinette named Moriarty Endowed Professor of Choral Activities at SDSU

Amber Turner — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:04:21 -0500

For more than a decade, Andrew Robinette has helped shape the voices of Ģ��Ƶ students. Beginning this fall, he will lead the next chapter of the university's choral program.

Raising the ROI of research

Addison DeHaven — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:38:27 -0500

Three questions with Craig Arnold, president and CEO of Dakota BioWorx

Bigelow named June’s Civil Service Employee of the Month

SDSU Strategic Communications — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:31:41 -0500

Tom Bigelow, senior building maintenance worker for Ģ��Ƶ Athletics, has been named SDSU’s Civil Service Employee of the Month for June.

Stemsrud named to International Venue Management Association's 30|UNDER|30 Class of 2026

Amber Turner — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:05:01 -0500

Long after the final applause, the feeling of being welcomed and cared for is often what audiences remember most. At Ģ��Ƶ's Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center, Anna Stemsrud has built her career around creating those exceptional experiences — and her efforts are now being recognized on an international stage.

SDSU joins MIT as theme winner at NASA contest

Dave Graves — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:02:34 -0500

Lined up against some big-name competition, a young group of Ģ��Ƶ engineering students won its category in a prestigious NASA student competition.
SDSU was one of three finalists selected to compete in the Lunar Sample Return Concept category.
The students were tasked with developing a concept to extract and return to Earth lunar surface and subsurface samples. That was one of four categories in NASA’s Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition. A total of 14 teams were selected as finalists, with three of them coming from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which won the other three categories.