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The Office of Career Development strives to be a premier career development resource for �ձ�av��Ƶ students, alumni, faculty and staff, and the first choice for organizations seeking to make quality hires. The office offers a variety of services designed to bring students and employers together. Its services include:

Today Brock Aleshire is a field engineer with the heavy civil engineering contractor Kraemer North America drawing a salary his parents could only imagine. A year ago, he was a senior at South Dakota State majoring in construction management. The step from collegian to contractor is a big one, but not insurmountable, certainly not with the assistance of the �ձ�av��Ƶ Office of Career Development. Aleshire, now of Casselton, North Dakota, began using the free services of the Office of Career Development in his sophomore year and doesn’t regret the early start.

Grace Jensen has cemented her name in concrete industry management program history at �ձ�av��Ƶ. In January the sophomore from Glenwood, Minnesota, was notified that she is receiving one of the two $5,000 scholarships awarded annually by the American Society of Concrete Contractors. The �ձ�av��Ƶ program began in fall 2021 , and Jensen is the first Jackrabbit to receive the honor. Program director Tim Hostettler said he also never had a student win the award in the nine years he taught at California State-Chico.

First impressions weren’t misleading for Delaney Baumberger, a first-year graduate student in mechanical engineering at �ձ�av��Ƶ. When she visited campus as a senior at Blair High School just north of Omaha, Nebraska, the school wasn’t as distant as the 216 miles would suggest. Her dad, Patrick Baumberger, and several uncles had graduated from the �ձ�av��Ƶ engineering program, “so I grew up hearing about its strong reputation. When it came time to tour colleges in the Midwest, �ձ�av��Ƶ was an obvious choice to check out.” One experience in particular helped her realize that attending Dad’s alma mater made sense.

�ձ�av��Ƶ will host the In-Service Music Conference on campus Feb. 13-15. The conference will bring music educators from across the state to the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center for a series of workshops and concerts.

Serving as the “voice of students,” Trinity Peterson is the president of the �ձ�av��Ƶ Students’ Association. Students’ Association is the student government at �ձ�av��Ƶ with student senators elected from each of the academic colleges.

�ձ�av��Ƶ alum Ellen Sandager has been named the university’s new director of undergraduate admissions.

The South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum and the South Dakota Industrial Hemp Association will present “The Future of Hemp,” a program about industrial hemp production in South Dakota, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6.

Jiyoung Kim, a program assistant with the Department of Natural Resource Management, has been named �ձ�av��Ƶ’s Civil Service Employee of the Month for January.

The 2025 Lamb Bonanza at �ձ�av��Ƶ featured the traditional auction of lamb pelts, this year raising $6,700 for student scholarships.