Seten chosen for Rhodes Scholarship
South Dakota State University senior Hattie Seten became the university's second recipient of the Rhodes scholarship, announced Saturday. ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ's first Rhodes scholar, Maj. Gen. Alan A. Nord ’52, earned a master’s degree in general chemistry from Oxford.
Westwick receives 2020 Don Yoder Distinguished Faculty Award
Joshua Westwick ’01/M.S. ’03, associate director of South Dakota State University’s School of Communication and Journalism, recently received the Don Yoder Distinguished Faculty Award at the National Communication Association’s annual Basic Course Division business meeting.
When in quarantine: New robots keep nursing students, faculty learning in lab clinicals
When COVID-19 had Nicole Carlson quarantined at her Sioux Falls home, the South Dakota State University nursing instructor didn’t have to miss watching her students perform basic skills in the college’s simulation lab in Brookings. Thanks to a telepresence robot purchased through funding from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration, Carlson was right there with the students.
University Aviation Association honors Christensen
Cody Christensen, an associate professor at South Dakota State University, received the V.L. Laursen Award at the University Aviation Association’s 73rd Annual Education Conference held virtually in October. Christensen, who has led the ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ aviation program since 2014, is the first one from ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ to receive an award from the UAA.
Former ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ President Donates Works to 50th Anniversary Harvey Dunn Exhibition
Former South Dakota State University president Peggy Gordon Miller has donated five Harvey Dunn original paintings to the South Dakota Art Museum.
APLU honors Uilk for teaching excellence
Nicholas Uilk, an instructor in South Dakota State University’s Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, has been named a recipient of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities national teaching awards in recognizing excellence in agricultural sciences teaching and student engagement.
Concerns About Fairness of the Election Loom Large in South Dakota
The South Dakota Voter Survey was conducted in the first two weeks of October by The South Dakota Polling Project, a research group housed in the School of American and Global Studies at South Dakota State University. The margin of error is +/- 4.5%, on par with other state-wide polls.