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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.

Two ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ students in the landscape architecture program competed in an international competition in Istanbul, Turkey. Jake Pytleski and Miranda Peck represented the ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ School of Design in the International Federation of Landscape Architects conference Sept. 4-6.

Marina Hendricks, assistant professor and graduate program coordinator for the online Master of Mass Communication in ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ’s School of Communication and Journalism, has been recognized as the David Adams Scholastic Journalism Division Educator of the Year.

By the narrowest of margins — two points out of more than 2,000 — the ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ Quarter Scale Tractor Team came up just short of winning its third consecutive national title. Competing at the 27th annual International Quarter-Scale Tractor Student Design Competition at the Expo Gardens Fairgrounds in Peoria, Illinois, the ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ team placed third out of 21 teams.

David C. Earnest, the Odeen-Swanson Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of South Dakota, has been named dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ. Earnest was selected following a national search and will begin working on the ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ campus July 8.

The annual ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ Celebration of Faculty Excellence recognized 30 faculty members, researchers and scientists Tuesday. The event honors faculty members in the university's colleges for outstanding research, teaching and service.

Professional sports, whether it be playing in or working for, is a goal for many high school and college students across the country. Samuel Pichura, a ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ senior, is no exception. This past summer, he fulfilled his dreams while interning for his one of favorite professional sports teams, the Minnesota Vikings.

After nearly two years of construction, the POET Bioproducts Center has officially opened its doors to the region's leading bioprocessing scientists. The new laboratory, located in the Research Park at ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ, will bring researchers from ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ and South Dakota Mines together with industry partners to scale up innovative biotechnologies and varying South Dakota's economy.

Over the past two decades, the United States has been importing more and more avocados each year, underlining a growing obsession with the nutrient-dense fruit. Simultaneously, the U.S. and the rest of the world have been dealing with a growing environmental crisis spurred on by an overreliance on plastic. Could avocados — specifically avocado peels — provide a potential solution?

ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ engineering students used down-to-earth knowledge to design an out-of-this-world lunar transport vehicle which won them a NASA-sponsored contest. The ÈÕ±¾avÊÓƵ team was one of 15 teams selected as a finalist in NASA’S Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition.