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�ձ�av��Ƶ associate professor Rachel Willand-Charnley received an endowment from Bill and Nancy Wadsworth earlier this year. The funding will help Willand-Charnley accelerate cancer research at SDState.

Researchers from �ձ�av��Ƶ's Department of Biology and Microbiology and the BioSystems Networks and Transformative Research Center – Insights into Inflammation (BioSNTR-II) have identified a protein — ALIX — that can help boost cells' self-healing abilities.

�ձ�av��Ƶ researcher Swas Kaushal is part of a new generation of scientists blending technology and agriculture — and his work is gaining global attention through two major travel awards.

A project from �ձ�av��Ƶ's Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering will provide scholarships for high-achieving, low-income engineering students.

�ձ�av��Ƶ's Haarberg Drug, Disease and Delivery Research Center is spurring economic development as it progresses in finding new treatments for cancer and other diseases.

developed procedures to reduce the amount of urine cultures ordered by physicians. Their work earned them the Network Star Award for the Veterans Integrated Service Network for the five-state, upper Midwest region. The team of clinical pharmacists and one infectious disease physician included Mike Lemon, Andrea Aylward and Kaitlyn Latour.

Students, researchers and industry professionals from around the country gathered at �ձ�av��Ƶ on Oct. 14 for the 2025 South Dakota Student Water Conference. The daylong event was designed to empower the next generation of water research professionals.

The South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and South Dakota State Foundation Seed Stocks Division have released a new wheat variety to seed producers. The new hard red winter line will be available for farmers to purchase for fall 2026 planting.

New research from �ձ�av��Ƶ's Ness School of Management and Economics finds that cost share programs help farmers overcome barriers to cover crop adoption and creates momentum for non-cost share participants to also adopt the practice.

In the early 2000s, �ձ�av��Ƶ used the tagline “You can go anywhere from here” in a number of ads to feature students and alumni who used �ձ�av��Ƶ as a launching pad to a variety of study abroad locations and high-profile careers. One of the featured students was Ryan Lefers, a farm kid from Corsica studying agricultural engineering, who had participated in a study abroad program in Egypt. The North African country would be just the start of Lefers’ Middle Eastern adventures.