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Building more time into the testing cycle for the race car that Wild Hare Racing club team members built for this year’s contest allowed the team to place the best it has in at least eight years. The Ģ������Ƶ team competed in the internal combustion engine division of the Formula SAE contest at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, west of Detroit and Ann Arbor, finishing in 29th place out of 117 teams, which included top U.S. college teams as well as entries from Spain, Brazil, Italy and Canada.

Like so many, the COVID-19 pandemic changed Gavin Eischens’ life in profound ways. While still in high school, he became a certified nursing assistant at the height of the pandemic, an experience he jokingly said means he’s “been a CNA for my whole life.” More seriously, those early experiences inspired Eischens, now finishing his second year in Ģ������Ƶ’s respiratory care program, to pursue a career in respiratory therapy.

Irene Arango Gómez, community care coordinator for the Community Practice Innovation Center in Ģ������Ƶ’s College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, says her work is shaped by a need to know and understand public health systems and advocate responsibly within them.

AI-enabled safety glasses designed by a group of Ģ������Ƶ engineering students so impressed judges at a NASA contest that State students repeated as champions at the Gateways to Blue Skies competition at Langley Ģ������Ƶ Center, Hampton, Virginia. The glasses are designed to assist aircraft mechanics, but they could be applied to virtually any field. The system captures images of maintenance tasks, listens to the mechanic during the repair process, and automatically generates a complete maintenance report that becomes part of the aircraft’s service record. The SDSU team dubbed Wingman was one of eight teams selected to compete in the NASA contest finals May 18-19 at the NASA facility.

Success has carried over from one year to the next for the Ģ������Ƶ Livestock Judging program. Last year’s team had a successful run, and this year’s team is continuing that momentum as members move through their competition schedule.

Although SDSU has been recognized as a leader in precision agriculture, a faculty member in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering noticed a gap in precision technology coursework related to livestock. This gap prompted Dick and Jeune Nicolai's gift to the university.

The Ģ������Ƶ Soil Judging Team returned from the National Collegiate Soils Contest in Raleigh, North Carolina, with strong results. Competing against 28 universities and more than 300 students to properly identify and characterize regional soils, SDSU secured a 20th overall finish and a 14th-place ranking in the team judging category.

Austin Allen, a student in the Ģ������Ƶ College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, has been selected as a Pharm4Me Student Ambassador by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.

The American Academy of Health Behavior recently honored Christopher Robbins, assistant professor of allied and population health in Ģ������Ƶ’s College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, and his colleagues with the 2025 Paper of the Year award.

The Ģ������Ƶ Department of Animal Science hosted its annual Celebration of Animal Science Achievements and Excellence on April 23 at McCrory Gardens.