Rosie Nold, assistant department head and professor in the Department of Animal Science, has been recognized for her dedication to teaching by being selected as one of 21 individuals to receive the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) Educator Award.
A new confocal microscope in South Dakota State University's Functional Genomics Core Facility (FGCF) expands both the research capacity and opportunities within the lab, said Ryan Hanson, assistant professor in the Department of Biology and Microbiology and coordinator of the FGCF.
At South Dakota State University, Rachel Willand-Charnley, assistant professor in the Department Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics, leads an interdisciplinary research lab—the RAWC Lab—whose work revolves around improving cancer treatments. Recently, their work has placed greater emphasis on gaining a better understanding of how cancer utilizes sugar residues and their associated genes to evade the immune system and participate in multidrug resistance.
For nearly 40 years, Vikram Mistry, professor emeritus and recently retired associate dean and director of academic programs for the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences at South Dakota State University, has dedicated his professional career to conducting research on dairy products to improve their quality, nutritional value and processing methods, and educating young minds preparing to enter the dairy production, dairy manufacturing and food science industries.
In South Dakota, agriculture production is big business. As an industry, agriculture has a $32.5 billion economic impact annually and employs over one-third of all workers in the state through ag and allied industries. Crop production is an essential element to both the industry and the South Dakota economy.
Research conducted by William Severud, a South Dakota State University assistant professor, is providing new insights into brainworm, one of the leading causes behind Minnesota's moose population decline. ...
Through a nearly $100,000 grant, the National Science Foundation has positioned South Dakota State University to help improve the nation's research enterprise. One of the NSF’s primary goals is to increase the United States' ability to conduct high-quality, impactful research.
Stephanie Hanson, a population health instructor from the Department of Allied and Population Health at South Dakota State University, recently presented a poster at the Postpartum Support International annual conference in Kansas City, Missouri.
Byron Garry, an associate professor in South Dakota State University's Department of Construction and Operations Management, was honored by the American Society for Engineering Education as the "North Midwest Section Outstanding Campus Representative, 2023."...
Last semester, Michael Puthawala made the 8,000-mile journey to Kigali, Rwanda, for the 11th annual International Conference on Learning Representations. Puthawala, a South Dakota State University assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the CAPITAL Services scholar in artificial intelligence and machine learning, is a relatively new faculty member at SDSU but is already making significant contributions to his academic area of expertise: machine learning.
