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The Eminent Leaders in Agriculture, Family and Community Selection Committee is seeking nominations of individuals for �ձ�av��Ƶ's Eminent Leaders in Agriculture, Family and Community award program.

The Drone Club at �ձ�av��Ƶ is hosting its fourth annual Drone Day on April 17. The event is free and open to the public.

The �ձ�av��Ƶ School of Performing Arts will welcome the Rawlins Ensemble, featuring musicians Sonja Kraus and Eun-Hee Park, on campus later this month. The guest artists, both music faculty members at the University of South Dakota, will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. April 13 at the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center’s Founders Recital Hall.

When the Orion spacecraft lifted off Lauch Pad 39B to send four astronauts from Kennedy Space Center to the moon and back, the world watched. That world included about 30 students from the Aerospace Club at �ձ�av��Ƶ, who gathered in a classroom in Crothers Engineering Hall to watch the historic 5:35 p.m. April 1 launch. This is the first time since 1972 that America has had a manned flight aimed at the moon.

South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources Secretary Hunter Roberts was on campus March 27 to meet with �ձ�av��Ƶ students participating in ECON 319: Seminar with Industry Leaders.

�ձ�av��Ƶ’s Hilton M. Briggs Library invites the public to attend “Religion and 007: Exploring Themes that Bond Us Together,” a free event examining the intersection of religion, popular culture and the iconic James Bond franchise.

The South Dakota Space Design Competition welcomed students from across the Upper Midwest for the camp’s third year at �ձ�av��Ƶ.  High school students from South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota were invited to explore space design and different areas of science, technology, engineering and math at the March 14-15 event, which was in person March 14 and virtual March 15 due to an incoming blizzard. Participants were given industry-specific challenges and tasked with delivering real-world solutions. 

From health care to agriculture to education, artificial intelligence is reshaping the modern world, and college graduates must have the skills, knowledge and tools to meet the challenges and demands AI presents across nearly every industry. To ensure its graduates are ready to thrive in an increasingly AI-driven world, �ձ�av��Ƶ has announced the establishment of the Center for AI Innovation and Emergent Technologies.

The �ձ�av��Ƶ Concert Choir will present a powerful and deeply reflective performance of Johannes Brahms’ “Ein Deutsches Requiem” at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 29, in the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center’s Larson Memorial Concert Hall.

Sheree Heyduk, a program assistant for the University Student Union, has been named �ձ�av��Ƶ’s Civil Service Employee of the Month for March.