Notable Alumni

Who attended USD? Oh, just a few thousand leaders, healers and world-changers!
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Sen. Tim Johnson's South Dakota's senior senator and a member of the USD Class of 1969. He earned his second and third degrees at USD in 1970 and 1975!
Meet John Thune, Totally Uninteresting Conventional Conservative Republican
Class of 1984 member Sen. John Thune, half of South Dakota's Senatorial team, has Coyote roots!
Mi Young Lee dreamed of being an artist, came to USD, worked super-hard, and achieved her dreams! She here degrees at the State's Flagship U in 1985 and 1988!
Linda Hasselstrom's written work is loved for a reason. She's a USD graduate from 1965; check out her books!
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Grace Beede, Class of 1926, taught the basics of Latin and Greek to an ocean of USD students over her many years as a professor in Vermillion!
E.O. Lawrence graduated USD in 1922, (before our engineering program was swiped.) All he did after that was win the Nobel Prize in Physics and have the UC Berekeley Nuclear Physics lab named for him! With Openheimer and others, he basically created atomic power and "The Bomb."
NCEH/ATSDR Epidemic Intelligence Service - Epi-Aids and Field Investigations
Dr. Danielle Buttke leads international efforts for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She's a 2004 USD graduate!
Al Neuhart, Class of 1950. Founder of the USA Today newspaper, generous supporter of USD contemporary media efforts!
USMC Captain Joe Foss, more air-combat victories in World War II than any pilot. USD Class of 1940. Oh, and he won the Medal of Honor!