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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 South ��ֱ���� State University April 22. Selected as the 2025 Distinguished Engineers are Marsia Geldert-Murphey and Maj. Gen. Richard Heitkamp.

Two South ��ֱ���� State University graduate students from the Department of Natural Resource Management received recognition for their research and presentations at the 2025 annual meeting of the South ��ֱ���� Chapter of The Wildlife Society held recently in Brookings.

The Child and Family Resource Network at South ��ֱ���� State University is hosting its next “Common-Sense Parenting” class series starting March 25.

The South ��ֱ���� State University School of Performing Arts has been tapped to host the North American Saxophone Alliance Region Three Conference March 7-9. SDSU saxophone and jazz lecturer Yiqun Chen is the conference organizer.

The Department of Dairy and Food Science at South ��ֱ���� State University hosted the 2025 North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge Midwest Regional Competition this month, welcoming 113 students from 14 universities and technical schools in collaboration with a regional dairy.

Bradley Snyder, South ��ֱ���� State University’s instructor of low brass, will present a faculty recital at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 3, in Founders Recital Hall at the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center.

Little International, also known as Little “I,” is the largest two-day student-run agricultural expo in the nation. It takes roughly 160 students and months of planning to put on a successful event. Leading it all as general manager is Teigen Hadrick, a senior ��ֱ���� science production management major from Faulkton.

The annual South ��ֱ���� State University Celebration of Faculty Excellence recognized 28 faculty members, researchers and scholars Tuesday. The event honors faculty members in the university's colleges for outstanding research, teaching and service.

The South ��ֱ���� State University School of Performing Arts will present cultural historian Joseph Horowitz and French classical pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet in a lecture-recital titled “Ravel and Jazz” on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 7:30 p.m. in the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center.

The South ��ֱ���� State University School of Performing Arts and the School of American and Global Studies are partnering with the South ��ֱ���� Symphony Orchestra of Sioux Falls to present a forum titled “Music as an Instrument of Diplomacy” on Monday, Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m. in the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center.