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Jeremy Daniel, an associate professor at �ձ�av��Ƶ, 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 �ձ�av��Ƶ'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. �ձ�av��Ƶ officials are preparing to offer a Bachelor of Science in healthcare systems engineering beginning in fall 2025.

In the past two months, faculty from �ձ�av��Ƶ's College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions have had eight articles published in peer-reviewed journals.

�ձ�av��Ƶ 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 �ձ�av��Ƶ a 100% pass rate.

This edition of the �ձ�av��Ƶ 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!

We believe. During the six-plus years I’ve been in this role, meeting and getting to know so many of you, one of my favorite questions to ask is, “Why do you choose to support �ձ�av��Ƶ and the College of Nursing?”

Fifty years ago, Lois Tschetter had just earned her bachelor’s degree from State and was working as staff nurse at Sioux Valley (now Sanford) Hospital in Sioux Falls. In that half century, Tschetter, 72, of Brookings, became recognized as one of the premier nurse educators in the state, especially in the fields of obstetrics and lactation.

Carol J. Peterson, truly a legend in South Dakota nursing education and higher education in general, was the inaugural recipient of the College of Nursing's Living Legacy Award at its 2024 scholarship banquet in Brookings.

Donations from two health care systems in South Dakota to the �ձ�av��Ƶ College of Nursing are leaving an impact, improving spaces and demonstrating a commitment to training the future health care workforce.