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�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.

The Women in Aviation Club, as described by Madeline Davis, is a community and support system that promotes professional development within aviation, focused on women in �ձ�av��Ƶ’s aviation program. As its president, Davis hopes to take the Women in Aviation Club to the next level. There are about 50 women enrolled in the aviation program at �ձ�av��Ƶ, and she hopes to motivate as many of them as she can to join the club.

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.

Fifty-four students, teachers and mentors participated in the South Dakota Space Design Competition at �ձ�av��Ƶ March 8-9 with the top students advancing to the world championship at Kennedy Space Center in July. Students came from high schools in South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota. Participants were matched with other students they did not know in order to add to the communications challenge.

While living in his hometown in Nigeria, Africa, John Akujobi recalls a tragic construction accident in which a bricklayer backing up a wheelbarrow didn’t realize his proximity to the edge of a four story scaffold and fell to his death. The incident stuck with him. As he progressed in his computer science studies and through conversations with his friends at �ձ�av��Ƶ, Akujobi discovered the power of sensors, algorithms and machine learning. He realized those things hold the potential for preventing such future tragedies. His solution, a wearable safety system named AMBER – Affordable Multimodal Sensor-Based Environmental Risk Detector designed to alert workers in real-time of environmental hazards in their blind spots.

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.

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.