Dakota State University News

In a year that's been rough on the U.S. dairy farmer, South Dakota has surged ahead of the rest of the nation in two production growth indicators, a South Dakota State University dairy specialist says.

In all South Dakota, there is no greater bet on the table than the corn and soybean crop sitting in wet fields that anxious farmers are scrutinizing for damage and trying to get in the bin.

North Dakota State University President Joseph Chapman will be leaving campus about a month earlier than he planned.

The highest paid private university president is in Troy, New York, taking home a paycheck worth more than $1.5 million a year.

The tuba section of the Brookings High School Band makes things rumble during a practice this past week in preparation for a concert in Jostad Gym Tuesday evening.

South Dakota State University Theatre presents "Pippin," opening at 7:30 p.m. tonight and continuing through Saturday.

Authorities say the case involved about $ 0 0 0 0 00,000 in unpaid taxes. The company's vice president, Micheal Fisher, has pleaded guilt9 to nine felony charges.

South Dakota State University officials are asking the City of Brookings for a $1 million pledge to help build a McCrory Gardens visitors center.

North Dakota State University`s new interim president says he plans to rent an apartment in Fargo to live in, and use the new NDSU president`s house for social functions.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture approved a grant of almost $500,000 that will fund research at South Dakota State University.

A team of chemists from the U.S. and France has found compelling evidence of a previously undocumented large volcanic eruption that occurred exactly 200 years ago, in 1809.

BOARD PRESIDENT RICHIE SMITH SAYS HE'S HOPING THE BOARD WILL APPROVE THE CONSULTANT AND SEARCH COMMITTEE MEMBERS NEXT MONTH.

Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led. Bismarck , N.D. North Dakota State University researchers have found much of this year's hard red spring wheat and durum crop in the Upper Midwest made top quality a big improvement over last year.

The following highlights summarize research papers that have been published or accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters .

Illness is keeping about 7 percent of South Dakota's K-12 students out of classes, but the state's universities are also seeing their share of H1N1 flu absences.

A new agreement with two-year colleges in Minnesota's Iron Range area will allow engineering students to work directly with real-world engineers while earning a four-year mechanical engineering degree from Minnesota State University.

North Dakota State University President Joseph Chapman may be leaving his job before the end of the year.

Don Morton was head football coach at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Tulsa and North Dakota State University.

State University System Chancellor Bill Goetz says three people are being considered for interim president at North Dakota State University.

Three former Harrisburg High School students are in the hospital with life-threatening injuries and a fourth sustained minor injuries after an alcohol-related accident early Tuesday in rural Harrisburg.