The director of a research effort that is taking aim at diabetes will speak Monday, Oct. 25, during the Keo Glidden Smith Fall Pharmacy Convocation at South Dakota State University.

Paul Burn, director of The Sanford Project, Sanford Research and a professor of pediatrics at the Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota, gives the convocation keynote address from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. on the east side of the Volstorff Ballroom. The title of his talk is, “Change, the only constant in your life.”