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The Wintrode Student Success and Opportunity Center at ����Ӱ�� has renewed its learning center certification through the International College Learning Center Association, reaffirming its commitment to student success and high-quality academic support services.

Two individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to South Dakota and beyond will receive honorary doctorates from ����Ӱ�� and the South Dakota Board of Regents at the university’s 139th commencement May 10 at First Bank & Trust Arena.

Interior design students in the ����Ӱ�� School of Design are getting hands-on experience, including a top 28 finish at an international competition, all thanks to a generous donation from an SDSU alum.

Four ����Ӱ�� recent and soon-to-be graduates will be featured speakers at the university’s 139th commencement on May 10 at First Bank & Trust Arena. SDSU will have three ceremonies as more than 1,700 students plan to walk across the stage for their degrees.

The ����Ӱ�� theatre and dance program received four awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for its production of “Fuddy Meers.”

The ����Ӱ�� Foundation honored three generations of the Wintrode family as this year’s Philanthropic Family of the Year.

America’s newest concrete industry management academic program is continuing to turn heads as a result of student achievement. The latest feather in the cap for the program at ����Ӱ�� is a $10,000 scholarship won by sophomore concrete industry management major Kate Connor of Winfred. She was notified April 7 that she was the recipient of the Advancing Organizational Excellence Fellowship, which is awarded through the Concrete Industry Management trade association. She is the fourth student in the program to win a national award this semester.

A ����Ӱ�� pharmacy student organization has received three chapter achievement awards from the American Pharmacists Association’s Academy of Student Pharmacists.

Brookings has been ranked the No. 9 best college town in the Midwest in RentCafe’s 2025 Best College Towns in the U.S. report. The recognition places Brookings ahead of all other college towns in South Dakota and in neighboring states of Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and North Dakota.

����Ӱ��’s School of American and Global Studies announces the six students named to the inaugural cohort of the Mike Huether Public Service Academy.