After nearly two years of construction, the POET Bioproducts Center has officially opened its doors to the region's leading bioprocessing scientists. The new laboratory, located in the Research Park at South Dakota State University, will bring researchers from SDSU and South Dakota Mines together with industry partners to scale up innovative biotechnologies and diversify South Dakota's economy.
South Dakota State University's Innovate SoDak—a product of the United States Economic Development Administration’s University Center program—has received an additional five-year, $145,000 per year grant from the program to continue serving industry clients and supporting economic growth in the state.
A new study from Srinivas Janaswamy has revealed how spent coffee grounds can be made into biodegradable films—material that could one day replace plastics.
Robert Schulte, a 1974 South Dakota State University graduate, will be honored as the recipient of the 2023 Wayne E. Knabach Award for Excellence in Power by the Center for Power Systems Studies at South Dakota State University Oct. 2.
Lora Perkins, associate professor in South Dakota State University's Department of Natural Resource Management, is working with the National Park Service on a three-year, $900,000 project to restore native plants to the national parks, memorials and monuments of the northern Great Plains.
Since 2019, Larry Leigh has been the director of South Dakota State University's Image Processing Lab, continuing a tradition of excellence that started with Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering Dennis Helder. But if things had gone according to plan, Leigh's life might be completely different.
Two electrical engineering faculty members have been awarded endowed positions within the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering at South Dakota State University. The addition of Junjian Qi and Tim Hansen brings to six the number of endowed positions in the college.
Precision agriculture technologies help optimize returns on crops and livestock while using resources as efficiently as possible, but there are some barriers to the adoption of these technologies, SDSU researchers find.
Through a four-year, $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, South Dakota State University will partner with universities from the far-corners of the United States to improve electrical grids with an emphasis on underserved, rural communities.
