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The �ձ�av��Ƶ Foundation honored three generations of the Wintrode family as this year’s Philanthropic Family of the Year.

America’s newest concrete industry management academic program is continuing to turn heads as a result of student achievement. The latest feather in the cap for the program at �ձ�av��Ƶ is a $10,000 scholarship won by sophomore concrete industry management major Kate Connor of Winfred. She was notified April 7 that she was the recipient of the Advancing Organizational Excellence Fellowship, which is awarded through the Concrete Industry Management trade association. She is the fourth student in the program to win a national award this semester.

A �ձ�av��Ƶ pharmacy student organization has received three chapter achievement awards from the American Pharmacists Association’s Academy of Student Pharmacists.

Brookings has been ranked the No. 9 best college town in the Midwest in RentCafe’s 2025 Best College Towns in the U.S. report. The recognition places Brookings ahead of all other college towns in South Dakota and in neighboring states of Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and North Dakota.

�ձ�av��Ƶ’s School of American and Global Studies announces the six students named to the inaugural cohort of the Mike Huether Public Service Academy.

What’s a Midwesterner’s pipe dream? How about sitting in the living room recliner while clearing your driveway with a remote-control snowblower? It’s not a pipe dream for four �ձ�av��Ƶ mechanical engineering majors who will demonstrate their invention at the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering’s Engineering Expo April 22. This is one of about 40 projects that will be on display at the Expo, which is an opportunity for seniors to showcase their capstone efforts. Other examples are a telemedicine app for veterinarians remotely monitoring an animal and a drone that will inspect shafts in the Sanford Underground Research Facility.

When NASA announced the finalists for its prestigious RASC-AL space design contest, �ձ�av��Ƶ had doubly good reasons to celebrate. Both of its entries in the Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concept-Academic Linkage contest were selected in the small lunar servicing and maintenance robot division. A total of 14 teams were selected in three divisions.

Warren Rose, an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Pharmacy, will talk about his work to combat the antimicrobial resistance crisis at the 12th annual Francis Miller Lecture at the spring pharmacy convocation at �ձ�av��Ƶ. Rose will present “Antimicrobial Pharmacology: From Bedside to Bench to Clinic” at 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, in Founders Recital Hall in the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center.

Daschle Dialogues will return to campus next fall when bestselling author and educator Sharon McMahon comes to �ձ�av��Ƶ.

�ձ�av��Ƶ’s Jackrabbits Forensics team earned the Tier 2 National Championship in the Pi Kappa Delta 2025 National Comprehensive Tournament.