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Eighteen undergraduate students will be able to take part in research projects they helped plan thanks to funding from the South Dakota State University College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences.

The South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station’s long history of supporting the state’s producers and its future outlook.

The sustainability of rangelands depends on the next generation of land managers — and universities like South Dakota State University are where that pipeline begins.

Isabel Dalton, a graduate student from the South Dakota State University Department of Natural Resource Management, has been accepted into the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

South Dakota State University researchers calibrated thousands of years of bison existence records with future projected weather patterns to forecast a significant northwest shift in suitable living conditions for the North American bison.

South Dakota State University’s annual Student Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Day will feature a wide range of student projects on April 14, including 14 undergraduate research projects funded by the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences for the 2025-26 school year.

The South Dakota State University Department of Natural Resource Management invites the public to attend its 2026 International Year of Rangeland and Pastoralists seminar. All are welcome to attend the event on Friday, April 17, at McCrory Gardens in Brookings.

Graduate students make up about 10% of the student population across more than 100 master’s degree and Ph.D. programs and specializations and 23 graduate certificate programs offered at South Dakota State University. Each graduate student is immersed in research and scholarship with the support of their advisor and the Graduate School staff. April 6-10 is Graduate Student Appreciation Week, a great opportunity to highlight a few graduate students at SDSU and the work they are accomplishing.

South Dakota State University students and faculty made their annual migration to the National Bison Association conference in Denver, Colorado, last month. More than just attending, the SDSU representatives made considerable contributions to meeting’s agenda from planning to presenting.

More than half of South Dakota’s landscape, around 24 million acres, is covered with the most abundant ecosystem in the world, rangeland. More than pretty scenery, the complex and varied environment is home to relationships among plants, animals and soil that were formed over millennia to mutually thrive and now play a crucial part in the South Dakota way of life.