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David Reynolds, director of Ģ������Ƶ’s School of Performing Arts, will present “Brass in America,” a free public recital at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 13. The concert will take place in Founders Recital Hall at the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center.

The Ģ������Ƶ School of Design is hosting artist Elizabeth Morisette as the Stuart Artist-in-Residence Sept. 8-Oct. 2.

Drones are increasingly being used for bridge inspections and to create 3D digital twins of the structures, but guidelines to replace in-person measurements of bridge geometry needed for structural assessment are still a work in progress. That’s where research by Akram Jawdhari and Ahmad Faqiri comes in. They are part of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Ģ������Ƶ. Jawdhari is an assistant professor in his fourth year at SDSU. Faqiri is a doctoral student who arrived in January after completing his second master’s degree at the University of Utah. They have taken thousands of images of four concrete bridges in Brookings County and are working on data analysis. The goal is to have turned their research into a paper to submit to a peer-reviewed journal by the end of December.

Maegan Questad has learned that teaching can take many forms. Sometimes it means explaining a difficult math concept to a classmate. Other times, it means standing in front of The Pride of the Dakotas Marching Band, conducting a rehearsal and helping hundreds of musicians move as one. For Questad, a senior mathematics major with a teaching specialization, those experiences have become part of the same journey to become an educator.

Armed with a more aggressive recruiting effort, the sixth annual iteration of what is now known as ELeVATE camp saw increased numbers and, based on early observations, an equal enthusiasm for exploring engineering efforts. This year’s camp for freshmen in the Lohr College of Engineering drew 45 students from Sunday, Aug. 16, to Friday, Aug. 21, which was campus move-in day for other freshmen.

SDSU’s recent efforts to enhance scholarships, reduce student debt goes against national averages and trends.

The experiences that shape students at Ģ������Ƶ don't always end when they leave campus. Some become lasting connections to the university and to the people who shared those experiences with them.

Consider this scenario: An SDSU student taking a history course is reading about the American Revolution, and something doesn’t make sense. Instead of leaving the course to search online or ask a general artificial intelligence chatbot, the student can turn to an AI tutor already embedded in the class. The tool can help summarize the reading, identify key points or talk through questions in a way that is specific to the course material.

Ģ������Ƶ colleges of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences and Education and Human Sciences honor Patty DeZeeuw, Elkton; Mary Duvall, Pierre; Jerry Schmitz, Vermillion; and Kevin Scott, Valley Springs; with the 2026 Eminent Leaders in Agriculture, Family and Community Award.

As enrollment in Ģ������Ƶ's advertising program continues to grow, the School of Communication and Journalism is expanding its faculty with an experienced industry leader who has spent nearly 20 years helping brands solve complex marketing challenges.