South Dakota State University faculty and staff are touring South Dakota’s tribal communities this spring to better understand and support current and future American Indian students on campus. SDSU’s Wokini Initiative has partnered with Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies to create the professional development training series for SDSU faculty and staff. It aims to foster a culturally responsive and supportive campus environment for American Indian students to increase their retention and graduation rates.
The South Dakota Board of Regents approved requests by South Dakota State University on May 9 to add two new academic programs in elementary education and special education. The programs were then approved by the South Dakota Department of Education, May 22 so they may officially launch next fall.
South Dakota State University’s Rich Normality Design Collaborative (RNDC), a multiprogram collaboration at the university, celebrated a patent-signing event on campus April 19. The patent was issued in April 2022 for a connector device that promotes children’s building skills, and the event was used to highlight RNDC’s evolution at State and how the initiative helps build a pipeline of creative and innovative thinkers.
Connor Matthies, a freshman mechanical engineering/computer science double major from Hartford, is one of eight students selected statewide to be a Davis-Bahcall Scholar at the Sanford Underground Research Lab in Lead this summer.
Tackling a complicated bridge-building project with an inexperienced crew, a group of civil engineering students from South Dakota State University figured out how to span the Sweetwater River near San Diego and qualified for a national competition.
Five mechanical engineering students at South Dakota State University had their project selected for the finals of a NASA contest, meaning all three of the department’s entries in three different NASA contests have advanced to the finals.
In late March, Saikat Basu, an assistant professor in South Dakota State University's Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering, received notice that he has been named the recipient of the Lohr College of Engineering's Early Career Investigator of the Year award.
Engineering students at South Dakota State University pedaled their way to a third-place finish in the national e-Human Powered Vehicle Challenge at Liberty University, Forest, Virginia. The contest is sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and attracted 15 teams.
McCormick, a distinguished professor of tumor biology and cancer research at the Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, will deliver the 10th annual Francis Miller Public Lecture in Cancer Research at 7 p.m. in Bailey Rotunda F, 1020 Campanile Ave., on the South Dakota State University campus. It is sponsored by the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions.
