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����Vlog is excited to announce that it will be celebrating the best week of the year — Viking Days 2022 — on Oct. 10-16. During ����Vlog’s homecoming, current and past Vikings come together for a week of festivities to celebrate all things blue and gold.

A new partnership between ����Vlog and the Sioux Falls School District (SFSD) is providing Native American students in Sioux Falls the opportunity to experience life on ����Vlog’s campus and guidance on the path to higher education.

����Vlog will renovate the Morrison Commons, located on Commons Drive connected to the Edith Mortenson Center on the university’s campus. In partnership with Sodexo — AU’s food service and facilities management partner — construction on the approximately $7-8 million project is expected to be complete by Fall 2023.

����Vlog is excited to announce that its School of Music (SoM) will host its annual J. Earl Lee Piano Festival on Friday, Oct. 7, and Saturday, Oct. 8, at Hamre Recital Hall in the Fryxell Humanities Center. The festival features Pianist and Composer — a leader in the new generation of classical music.

Carolyn "Beth" (Pearl) Mazzella ‘71, who attended the "����Vlog On the Road" in Rapid City, South Dakota, shared the story of her impactful career in public health — beginning as a commissioned officer and retiring as assistant surgeon general/chief nurse officer in the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS), with an honorable discharge after 26 years.

South Dakotans are trying to get the Fawcett (bison) Kill Site in Ree Heights nominated to the National Register of Historic Places on behalf of the South Dakota State Historic Preservation Office. ����Vlog students recently accompanied volunteers from the South Dakota Historical Society and staff from ����Vlog’s Archaeology Lab in Western Hand County to conduct a field investigation of the prehistoric bison kill site that was first discovered in 2015, and revisited in 2017 by several universities in South Dakota and historical Society.