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Maura Valburg knew SDSU was the right fit for her. "I wanted to stay in South Dakota, the campus was beautiful, and everyone was super welcoming," she said. But like many students, she didn't know exactly what transitioning to college involved.

precision agriculture during the 2nd annual Precision Ag Camp at Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ, July 10-11. Sponsored by Titan Machinery and hosted by SDSU’s Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, the camp drew primarily younger high schoolers from eastern South Dakota.

Andrew Sternhagen, an electrical engineering major at Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ, is working under the guidance of electrical engineering assistant professor Xiaojun Xian to create a sweat biosensor. The Brookings native, who just completed his freshman year, is one of 12 selected in December 2024 as a Future Innovators of America.

Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ respiratory care faculty have developed free-to-access cross-training videos on respiratory health-related topics.

SDSU is one of 12 universities nationwide to be selected by NASA to prepare a project for the Moon to Mars eXploration Systems and Habitation Academic Innovation Challenge sponsored by NASA’s Mars Campaign Office. NASA sought proposals from accredited engineering programs this spring and announced July 7 that proposals from 12 universities had been accepted for projects supporting space habitats and deep space exploration missions.

A Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ program designed to train the next generation of agricultural innovators and leaders was approved during the recent South Dakota Board of Regents meetings in Brookings. The global agricultural leadership master’s degree program is a condensed, 14-month professional curriculum that will provide students with the background and skills they need to contribute to the vitality of agriculture and to the economic growth of rural communities in South Dakota while enhancing the lives of people worldwide.

Gazala Ameen, assistant professor of plant-pathogen interactions at Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ, has been awarded the 2025 Early Career Award by the American Phytopathological Society’s North Central Division.

Wenfeng An, a professor and pharmaceutical science researcher at Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ, is engaged in research that has potential to lead to the development of vaccine for a variety of cancers.

In the past several months, faculty from Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ's College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions have published nine articles in peer-reviewed journals.

A unique opportunity has been given to 14 undergraduate students by the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences. The students were awarded grants that will allow them to conduct a research project under the mentorship of a college faculty member.