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May 2, 2025
Dean’s Cup winners honored
The Beacom College of Computer & Cyber Sciences’ Dean’s Cup highlighted the talents of Dakota State University students.
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May 1, 2025
Faculty awards announced at 2025 Honors Reception
Four Dakota State University faculty members received awards at the annual Honors Reception on April 15.
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May 1, 2025
Honored students
Every year, Dakota State celebrates the achievements of their students, those who have worked especially hard to excel and contribute to their own future as well as to the lives and progress of those around them.
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April 23, 2025
Secretary Noem is DSU’s spring commencement speaker
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has been invited to serve as the spring commencement speaker at Dakota State University on May 10.
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April 15, 2025
DSU students chosen as RSAC Security Scholars
Bella Maxwell and Mikaila Fluth have been named RSAC™ Security Scholars.
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April 14, 2025
DSU recognizes long-time employees
Dakota State University recognized 50 employees for their dedication and commitment at the annual Longevity Reception on April 7. Adjunct faculty and retirees were also honored at the event.
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April 9, 2025
Awards granted in SecureSD initiative
South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and Dakota State University (DSU) have announced the vendor selections for the firewall configuration review component of the SecureSD: Cybersecurity for Municipalities and Counties Initiative.
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April 8, 2025
DSU marketing materials receive ADDY awards
Dakota State University marketing materials have been recognized for creative excellence at recent advertising awards events.
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March 31, 2025
UKG lifts up DSU students' cyber efforts
Through a generous donation from Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG), Dakota State University has awarded five students with scholarships. The students are all active with the outreach program CybHER, whose mission is to empower, motivate, educate, and change the perception of girls and women in cybersecurity.
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March 28, 2025
Homan publication receives inaugural award
Dr. Fenecia Homan, dean of the Governors Cyber Academy at Dakota State University, is the recipient of the inaugural J-NOSS Award for Outstanding Article.
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March 27, 2025
DSU ranks #10 in NSA Codebreaker Challenge
DSU students and faculty took part in the 2025 NSA Codebreaker Challenge, and placed 10th on the leaderboard out of almost 600 U.S. academic institutions. One student, Brayden Borges, finished all the challenges.
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March 26, 2025
DSU students share AI Deepfake research in DC
Samyam Aryal, Joe Hammond, Ethan Price, and Nick Weir shared their research on Artificial Intelligence deepfakes with online video conferencing software at the U.S. Capitol.
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March 20, 2025
DakotaCon impacts careers
DakotaCon is an annual cybersecurity conference that is a great venue for anyone who wants to explore the field of cybersecurity. The agenda includes a lineup of distinctive speakers, a competition, and business trainings.
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March 7, 2025
Research events highlight DSU accomplishments
Dakota State University’s rising research efforts will be highlighted at the annual Research Week on March 17-23. Competitions, student research presentations, a cybersecurity conference, and several guest speakers are on the agenda.
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March 7, 2025
Mentorship extends beyond DSU classroom
Danielle Kearin graduated from Dakota State University in 2006, but she’s maintained contact with her mentor, Digital Arts Professor Tom Jones, in the decades since.This mentorship has encouraged and inspired Kearin to pursue her own creative endeavors through her senior and sport portrait photography business, Striped Banana. She most recently earned first place in the black-and-white category of the Brookings Art Council’s 46th annual Photography Exhibition.
January 29, 2025
DSU wins global pentesting competition
Dakota State students reached a milestone achievement this year – taking first place at the global Collegiate Pen Testing Competition (CPTC). They competed against 100 schools from seven global regions.
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January 23, 2025
Dakota State joins Cisco Networking Academy
Dakota State University is now a Cisco Network Academy certified campus. When fully operational later this year, this collaboration will provide a huge benefit for faculty and students to draw from Cisco’s resources.
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January 22, 2025
DSU founding partner with ASU on cyber education platform
Dakota State University and Arizona State University have created a partnership that will help train individuals for cybersecurity jobs through the American Cybersecurity Education Institute.
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January 21, 2025
DSU again hosts site for annual Global Game Jam
Dakota State’s game design program is hosting a Global Game Jam site the weekend of January 24-26. Global Game Jam (GGJ) is an event designed to bring people together for 48 hours to create a game from start to finish. These can be video games, board games, or card games, as long as they relate to a central theme chosen annually.
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January 21, 2025
Noelle Vainikka artwork featured at DSU
“Impulse,” an exhibition by Noelle Vainikka, is on display in Dakota State’s First Bank & Trust Gallery now through March 20. Vainikka, an interdisciplinary contemporary artist based in Watertown, South Dakota, explores themes of consumerism, nostalgia, femininity, popular culture, materialism, sustainability, and family.
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January 16, 2025
Competition wins translate to workforce success
DSU teams swept the top four spots at a recent CTF event, demonstrating that competition experience is a way to stand out in the cybersecurity job field.
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January 13, 2025
Professor’s photo selected for international exhibit
“Piccadilly,” a photo by Professor Tom Jones, is part of an international exhibition, “Nocturne: Photographs After Dark” by Photo Artfolio. Photo Artfolio is an online gallery and resource center for emerging and established photographers.
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January 10, 2025
DSU alumna crowned Miss Rodeo America
Dakota State alumna Callie Mueller’s 2024 was packed full of travel and accomplishments, serving as Miss Rodeo South Dakota 2024 and publishing her first children’s book “Faith Over Fear.” However, 2025 will be even busier as she takes on her duties as Miss Rodeo America.
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January 9, 2025
Daniels gains rural health experience from AmeriCorps
A recent DSU graduate, Brandon Daniels (B.S. ’24), is working alongside Harvard doctors at Harvard’s teaching hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, while serving with the AmeriCorps Rural Health Partnership.
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December 18, 2024
Virtual training benefits students and industries
Dakota State University health informatics and information students and other students in healthcare information systems or cybersecurity and faculty have the opportunity to participate in the Virtual Interprofessional Education (VIPE) program training with other universities and organizations throughout the world.
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December 16, 2024
International competitions hone good cyber skills
Dakota State University students are honing their cybersecurity skills everywhere they can, in class, through campus clubs, and with competitions that take place around the world.
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December 12, 2024
Slattery: DSU was made for me
Angela Slattery, the fall 2024 commencement student speaker, said DSU was made for her, allowing her to develop her identity in the classroom and on the basketball court.
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December 10, 2024
Judy Dittman is DSU’s fall commencement speaker
Dr. Judy Dittman will be the fall 2024 commencement speaker at DSU on Dec. 14. Alumna Tammy Miller will be receiving an honorary degree for public service.
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December 9, 2024
Nanocon is game changer
Nanocon is a game changer for the student committee members who organize the free gaming convention held at Dakota State University by teaching them project management, organizational skills, and teamwork.
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November 18, 2024
Waldner appointed director of Municipal Cybersecurity Grant Program
Dakota State University and South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announce the hiring of Mike Waldner as director of the newly established Municipal Cybersecurity Grant Program. This initiative, funded through Senate Bill 187, will enhance the cybersecurity infrastructure of South Dakota's municipalities.
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November 15, 2024
Smith awarded STEM outreach grant
Dr. Kevin Smith knows how important math is for STEM careers and a skilled workforce, and he’ll use a South Dakota Biotech/SD EPSCoR grant to create an outreach program helping students be positive about math and STEM.
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November 14, 2024
AT&T donates to CybHER
AT&T is continuing its partnership with CybHER® to bring technology outreach and digital literacy training to the state’s tribal students through local Boys & Girls Clubs.
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October 31, 2024
Faculty win Hackin’ Fest competition
Four DSU faculty in The Beacom College of Computer & Cyber Sciences won the Capture the Flag competition at the 2024 Wild West Hackin’ Fest in Deadwood.
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October 9, 2024
Competitions and passions drive Vongkasemsiri
Whether she’s on the volleyball court, participating in an international cybersecurity competition, or running the club she created, Gwen Vongkasemsiri loves competitions. A senior cyber operations and network & security administration double major, Vongkasemsiri chose to attend DSU after analyzing a list of schools across the U.S. that have excellent cybersecurity programs.
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October 4, 2024
’DAYTRIP‘ selected for multiple festivals
Dakota State senior Beau Headrick’s 2D animation “DAYTRIP” was selected for several film festivals, one of them international. Follow Fuzz on his journey to climb Mount Magoo all by himself, as he realizes along the way that maybe the summit is not the goal, but the company he keeps while on the journey.
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September 25, 2024
Healing through art
Madison Miller published her first poetry book, "He doesn't deserve to know me." The book was a way for her to address her complicated relationship with her father.
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September 20, 2024
No goal is too big
RayLee Wallis’s summer internship in the Secretary of the Army Primary Cyber Advisor’s office taught her that she is capable of doing big things. “I can develop the skills necessary for contributing in a fast-paced work environment.”
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September 10, 2024
Meaningful Contributions
Dakota State University’s research exchange program is growing in size, impact, and reputation through an industrial immersion program for graduate students from DSU and Swedish universities.
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September 10, 2024
Big day elevates DSU legacy
The opening of the Beacom PREMIER Complex will create distinctive opportunities that will benefit Dakota State and the surrounding region for years to come.
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September 3, 2024
Exceeding Expectations
First-year numbers show that expectations were exceeded in the first year of the Governors Cyber Academy, a program that fuels students’ passions for cyber careers.
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August 27, 2024
DSU's True Trojans
Dakota State University has named several employees “True Trojans” at the 2024 Welcome and University Address on August 19.
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February 14, 2024
DSU student sees latest tech at trade show
Dakota State University junior Cyber Operations major David Siemienas attended the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), an annual trade show organized by the Consumer Technology Association, in January.
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January 5, 2024
Generations unite
Stephanie Veltkamp’s grandmother, Arlene Johnson Hoek, graduated from high school in 1953 and went on to earn her teaching certificate from DSU, when it was known as General Beadle State Teachers College. Now, Veltkamp is earning her teaching degree from Dakota State through the Teacher Apprenticeship Pathway (TAP) program.
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October 18, 2023
Starrett to reach stars through position with Space Force
Connor Starrett learned recently that he was accepted for a position with the Space Force military branch and is excited to take on a cutting-edge role.
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October 17, 2023
FDIC internship leads to job offer
DSU student Justice Forster has accepted a permanent position with the Federal Insurance Corporation (FDIC) upon his graduation in December. Forster spent the summer as an intern for the FDIC as part of the Financial Management Scholars Program.
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October 10, 2023
DSU athlete is role model for local cancer survivor
Houston native Emmanuel Drain lost his left eye to retinoblastoma when he was four years old, but he didn’t let that stop him from living life and participating in things he loved, like football.
August 28, 2023
Student research looks to confirm snake fungal disease in SD
Through research, Adam Peak hopes to discover whether the Snake Fungal Disease can affect the Plains Garter Snake, South Dakota’s most common snake.
August 21, 2023
DSU alum moves on to nursing career
DSU alum moves on to nursing career. Life can take unexpected but exciting turns.
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August 14, 2023
DSU Track to be named for alumnus Dan Beacom
The new track at Dakota State University in Madison will be named “The Dan Beacom Track Complex” after alumnus Dan Beacom, who passed away on May 24, 2023.
July 13, 2023
Finding the Future
Brenna Smith, a veteran, and mother of two, has returned to school to earn a degree in Business Administration Technology through DSU's online programming.
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June 23, 2023
DSU organizations honored by BOR
The South Dakota Board of Regents (BOR) honored three Dakota State University organizations at the June meeting.
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June 20, 2023
Homan selected for Leadership South Dakota
Fenecia Homan, Dean of the Governors Cyber Academy at Dakota State University, is one of the 40 members in the 10th class of Leadership South Dakota.
June 19, 2023
DSU, Army Cyber sign partnership agreement
Dakota State University and ArmyCyber (ARCYBER) have signed an Educational Partnership Agreement (EPA) at a ceremony held at DSU on June 19.
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April 28, 2023
Forster to intern with FDIC
Justice Forster will spend 10 weeks of summer 2023 as an intern for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as part of the Financial Management Scholars Program.
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April 25, 2023
President Griffiths to be inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame
President Griffiths to be inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame
April 14, 2023
DSU and MarketBeat Reimagine the Kirby Science Discovery Center
Dakota State University and MarketBeat Partner to Reimagine the Kirby Science Discovery Center’s Space and Technology Floor
March 9, 2023
DSU recognizes 62 long-time employees
Dakota State University has recognized 62 employees for their dedication and commitment to the university at the annual Longevity Reception on March 1.
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February 24, 2023
Practical research leads to professional internship
Joseph Boyd’s research project has led to a summer internship opportunity, and could possibly lead to a career as well. Robert Richardson is Boyd’s faculty mentor for the research.
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February 10, 2023
Griffiths receives Chief Executive Leadership Award from CASE
Honor recognizes outstanding leadership and service in support of education
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January 20, 2023
Service Animals
What they do and how to interact with them. A service animal is specifically trained to complete a task or service.
January 17, 2023
Real-life tweet provides real-life research opportunity
Amir Kemal was inspired by a real-life tweet to do some real-life research on Twitter fake domains.
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January 10, 2023
Ask the questions
Johanna Coffey can ask a family member questions about the college process, but the DSU sophomore said any of the friendly people at the university can help.
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