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Two civil engineering graduates who have made their mark in the world will be honored as Distinguished Engineers by Jerome J. Lohr College of Education at �ձ�av��Ƶ April 22. Selected as the 2025 Distinguished Engineers are Marsia Geldert-Murphey and Maj. Gen. Richard Heitkamp.

Two �ձ�av��Ƶ graduate students from the Department of Natural Resource Management received recognition for their research and presentations at the 2025 annual meeting of the South Dakota Chapter of The Wildlife Society held recently in Brookings.

The Child and Family Resource Network at �ձ�av��Ƶ is hosting its next “Common-Sense Parenting” class series starting March 25.

The �ձ�av��Ƶ School of Performing Arts has been tapped to host the North American Saxophone Alliance Region Three Conference March 7-9. �ձ�av��Ƶ saxophone and jazz lecturer Yiqun Chen is the conference organizer.

The Department of Dairy and Food Science at �ձ�av��Ƶ hosted the 2025 North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge Midwest Regional Competition this month, welcoming 113 students from 14 universities and technical schools in collaboration with a regional dairy.

Bradley Snyder, �ձ�av��Ƶ’s instructor of low brass, will present a faculty recital at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 3, in Founders Recital Hall at the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center.

The annual �ձ�av��Ƶ Celebration of Faculty Excellence recognized 28 faculty members, researchers and scholars Tuesday. The event honors faculty members in the university's colleges for outstanding research, teaching and service.

The �ձ�av��Ƶ School of Performing Arts will present cultural historian Joseph Horowitz and French classical pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet in a lecture-recital titled “Ravel and Jazz” on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 7:30 p.m. in the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center.

The �ձ�av��Ƶ School of Performing Arts and the School of American and Global Studies are partnering with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra of Sioux Falls to present a forum titled “Music as an Instrument of Diplomacy” on Monday, Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m. in the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center.

�ձ�av��Ƶ will host the In-Service Music Conference on campus Feb. 13-15. The conference will bring music educators from across the state to the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center for a series of workshops and concerts.