Personality Profile: Michelle Turner
Michelle Turner, assistant director of the University of South Dakota Student Counseling Center has spent 18 years creating balloon art through her business, Red Bird Balloons, Turner earned a master’s degree in rehabilitation counseling with a psychiatric emphasis from Boston University. She chose the degree because she enjoys working with people. […]
Anna Moore pushes for community
Anna Moore, a sustainability and environment instructor at the University of South Dakota, advocates for community involvement and the reuse of items. Those interests have influenced her participation in and administration of a Buy Nothing Facebook group. Moore was born and raised in Northampton, Massachusetts. She attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, graduating […]
Medical students visit rural South Dakota
Three communities will begin welcoming medical students in March, 2027 as USD’s Frontier and Rural Medicine program, FARM expands to 17 students. FARM is a program where students spend 11 to 12 months in a rural community. This occurs during their second and third year (Pillar 2) of med school which […]
D-Days Carnival was a hit
On Monday, Sept. 28th an annual Dakota Days carnival took place in the Muensters University Center ball room. This carnival was organized to help students get even more hype for Dakota Days. There were multiple different activities to attend and participate in. Students got to enjoy games like cornhole, a chopstick race, […]
Alumni Spotlight: Lauren Soulek
Lauren Soulek, a 2019 USD alumni from Delmont, South Dakota, is currently an evening news anchor for KELOLAND’s 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts. She anchors in the evening and reports during the day. Soulek was born in Mitchell, South Dakota, but graduated from Tripp-Delmont High School in 2016. At Tripp-Delmont, she participated in the […]
SD rolls out new drivers license
On Sept. 3, 2026, residents of South Dakota received the announcement that their driver’s licenses and identification cards will be replaced. New cards will have updated security features and a new image on the front. The security features are intended to further prevent identity theft, fraud and other forms of identity-related crime. University of South […]