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In a groundbreaking new study, a team of researchers from ����Ӱ�� — led by associate professor Saikat Basu — determined the critical exposure durations for inhaled transmission of pox viruses, including smallpox and mpox, and may have provided key insights into a medical mystery.

Mount Rushmore. The Badlands. Bison. Three things that come to mind when thinking of South Dakota scenery. Of the 400,000 bison that currently live in North America, around 10% — nearly 40,000 — roam the state’s landscape. It makes sense then that the epicenter of bison research would also be here, where it can have the biggest impact.

A collaborative project between ����Ӱ��’s College of Nursing and College of Natural Sciences is improving medical imaging accuracy through the study of germanium, a chemical element found in the Earth's crust.

Through a partnership with Avera Health, ����Ӱ��'s College of Nursing is working to address the rural nursing workforce shortage.

����Ӱ��'s Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering has increased its research expenditures, nearly doubled its doctoral enrollment and has implemented high-impact research programs to help move the university towards Research 1 designation.

����Ӱ��'s Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering will serve as the host of a new National Science Foundation-backed Research Experiences for Undergraduates site, aimed at giving students experience with cutting-edge research in energy and power systems.

As a fifth grader, Julia Steffl commandeered the family kitchen for a science project to research how yeast works. Today, her research is in the Dakota BioWorx facility east of the ����Ӱ�� campus, where she works as a Pioneer BioTech student employee. There, she applies the centuries-old practice of fermentation by using high-tech equipment in a Dakota BioWorx lab to hopefully produce a product that will make life better for her family’s Minnesota farm and improve the lot for all farmers by creating another ag-based product. Steffl is a junior agricultural and biosystems engineering major from Callaway, Minnesota, about an hour east of Fargo, North Dakota.

“Cool your jets” might have been advice your mother gave you when you got a little hot under the collar. For Connor Matthies, it’s a science project — in a sense, anyway. Matthies, a senior mechanical engineering major from Hartford, is one of eight Future Innovators of America this school year.

Delaney Wilson grew up hearing about ����Ӱ��, but she said all those good things didn’t sink in until she visited campus herself.

Douglas Raynie, professor emeritus and former head of ����Ӱ��'s Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics, visited Egypt’s Beni Suef University in November 2025 as part of the U.S. Fulbright Specialist Program.