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The ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ public health program celebrated National Public Health Week with two days of events focused on highlighting the impact of substance use disorder and related stigma in South Dakota.

The path to graduation isn’t always a straight line, but for alumni like Seth Lewis, each step shaped a passion for research and discovery.

A ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ pharmacy student organization has received three chapter achievement awards from the American Pharmacists Association’s Academy of Student Pharmacists.

The ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ College of Nursing is now accepting applicants for its new online Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.

Jeremy Daniel, an associate professor at ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ, is among the inaugural class of fellows for the American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists. Daniel, who has been on the faculty of the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions for 10.5 years, received notice in February that he had been selected. He is among 47 fellows who will be recognized at the annual meeting of the American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists in Salt Lake City, Utah, April 28.

In a collaborative project with ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ's College of Nursing, Phuong Nguyen, assistant professor in the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering, will help facilitate nursing simulation programming research by utilizing eye-tracking technology.

A new, future-focused engineering program — and the first in the nation at the undergraduate level — is being added to the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering following South Dakota Board of Regents approval in December. ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ officials are preparing to offer a Bachelor of Science in healthcare systems engineering beginning in fall 2025.

In the past two months, faculty from ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ's College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions have had eight articles published in peer-reviewed journals.

ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ pharmacy students outdid themselves in the 2024 North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination. Dan Hansen, dean of the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, said 56 of the 59 Pharm.D. graduates took the exam in 2024, and all 56 passed on their first attempt, giving ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ a 100% pass rate.

This edition of the ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ College of Nursing’s newsletter is very much a story about the impact of nursing leadership. I often tell students that the beauty of a nursing degree is that you can go many different directions with it. In this issue, we highlight just a few of our leaders but know that there are many more of you out there!