Nearly 3,200 students from 34 states and 26 foreign nations have been named to the dean’s list for academic excellence after the fall 2020 semester at South Dakota State University, Brookings. To earn dean’s list distinctions in SDSU’s colleges, students must have completed a minimum of 12 credits and must have earned at least a 3.5 GPA on a 4.0 scale. Students from the area included on the list are: Reece William Petersen of Hartley, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and Ashilyn Rose Hulstein of Melvin, College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences.