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The College of Nursing at �ձ�av��Ƶ has added some new faces to its ranks since July. These dedicated new faculty and staff span �ձ�av��Ƶ’s main campus, as well as the Sioux Falls and Rapid City sites.

The �ձ�av��Ƶ School of Performing Arts presents the A/B Duo on Monday, Nov. 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center.

Brookings, home to �ձ�av��Ƶ, is the second most affordable college town in the U.S., according to a WalletHub study. In WalletHub’s “2025 Best College Towns in America,” factors including housing costs, cost of higher education and student loan debt per person, among others, were considered.

Sandra Linn, a library technician at Hilton M. Briggs Library, has been named �ձ�av��Ƶ’s Civil Service Employee of the Month for November.

The �ձ�av��Ƶ Civic Symphony will deliver a vibrant celebration of classical music with its fall concert, “New Worlds,” at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17, at the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center.

�ձ�av��Ƶ’s School of Performing Arts invites the community to a recital featuring senior music education major Jamee Kattner in a performance of works by Franz Haydn, Amy Beach, Leonard Bernstein and Jerry Bock, among others.

Nearly 100 �ձ�av��Ƶ undergraduate students will showcase their ag industry internship experiences at Precision Connect ’24, Thursday, Nov. 14, at the Raven Precision Agriculture Center. This is the fourth annual Precision Connect event, started in conjunction with the 2021 opening of the center.

With loud enthusiasm often reserved for athletic events, students, faculty and staff from �ձ�av��Ƶ’s agricultural programs showed up in full force to welcome a live television taping of “AgDay College Roadshow” Oct. 30 on the �ձ�av��Ƶ campus.

Since her sophomore year, Sydnee Hubner has been an ambassador for the Raven Precision Agriculture Center. She could also be the poster child for hard work and achievement. The senior agriculture and biosystems engineering major from Pipestone, Minnesota, came to �ձ�av��Ƶ with a distinguished resume and has only built upon that in her four years here. The most recent entry is receipt of a national scholarship through the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. Hubner received the $2,000 Adams Scholarship, making her one of two students from the department to earn a national ASABE award this year.

Patience is a virtue, but when it comes to working in a production lab, speed and precision rate pretty high too. Thanks to an anonymous gift, Lohr College of Engineering has been able to buy six new CNC (computer numerical control) machines valued at $120,000. The machines arrived and were installed in the production lab of the Chicoine Architecture, Mathematics and Engineering Hall in September.