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Keely Eagleshield was officially appointed to the Larson Family Endowed Director of Wokini and Tribal Relations at Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ on Dec. 8, 2025.

Delaney Wilson grew up hearing about Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ, but she said all those good things didn’t sink in until she visited campus herself.

Retired educators and Jackrabbits alums Lon and Mary Moeller of Brookings have been named Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ family of the year by the SDSU Alumni & Foundation.

When Erica Summerfield talks about the growth of Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ’s agricultural communication program, one word keeps coming up: opportunity. That opportunity has reached a new level with the establishment of the Karen D. Stuck Endowment. On Sept. 25, during a special endowment ceremony, Summerfield, a second-year assistant professor, became the first-ever Karen D. Stuck Endowed Professor of Agricultural Communication.

Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ’s Bachelor of Science in respiratory care program, housed in the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, has earned provisional accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care.

Brittney Meyer, professor of pharmacy practice in the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions at Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ, recently received an Excellence in Honors Mentorship Award from the Van D. and Barbara B. Fishback Honors College.

Minnesota Avenue in Sioux Falls is starting to look more yellow and blue. Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ pharmacy and respiratory care students began the spring semester on Jan. 12 in the newly renovated east two-thirds of the SDSU Metro Center at 33rd Street and Minnesota Avenue, after spending the past two years taking classes in the unremodeled portion of the building.

The average person likely has a very specific image in mind for what a laboratory looks like: white coats, protective goggles, blue latex gloves and half-filled beakers abound. An upcoming peer-reviewed journal sponsored by Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ explores research happening daily in a different setting across campus.

More than half of South Dakota’s landscape, around 24 million acres, is covered with the most abundant ecosystem in the world, rangeland. More than pretty scenery, the complex and varied environment is home to relationships among plants, animals and soil that were formed over millennia to mutually thrive and now play a crucial part in the South Dakota way of life.

Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ’s two largest relationship-building partners have consolidated into one organization, effective Jan. 1, 2026.