Resources Observation and Science. The GSCE focuses on basic and applied research in terrestrial remote sensing. SDSU was recognized in 2017 by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy as the seventh most productive university in the US (and 27th globally) for remote sensing research for the period 2011–2015.
The university operates the South Dakota state agricultural research stations around the state, such as the Antelope Range and Livestock Research Station near Buffalo.
The Great Plains Writers Conference is a venue for significant regional authors or writers interested in the Great Plains. It was instituted at SDSU in 1976 for writing scholarship.
Alumni from the university's research community notable for scientific achievements include:
Stephen Foster Briggs, B.S. 1907, invented the Briggs & Stratton internal-combustion engine
Theodore Schultz, B.S. Economics & Agriculture 1928, received the 1979 Nobel Prize in Economics
Gene Amdahl, B.S. Engineering & Physics, 1948, developed the IBM 360 computer and later the IBM …
