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Basu named recipient of the Lohr College of Engineering's Early Career Investigator of the Year award

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.

Willand-Charnley to investigate ways to reverse role of sialic acid to improve cancer treatment

Rachel Willand-Charnley, an assistant professor in South Dakota State University's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has received a $100,000 grant to treat colon cancer cells with a glycan therapeutic they developed, targeted at reversing cancer’s ability to thwart immune mediated cytotoxicity via simple sugar residues.

SDSU engineers finish third in national contest

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.

Cancer research to be bearer of good news

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.

Basu Lab applies fluid mechanics modeling to cancer research

While fluid mechanics is considered an engineering discipline, its applications stretch far and wide into a variety of research areas. Taking that cue, Saikat Basu, an assistant professor in the South Dakota State University Department of Mechanical Engineering, and his research team have applied fluid mechanics modeling to cancer research with their latest project. ...

Problem-solving projects to be featured at SDSU’s Engineering Expo 

South Dakota State University’s Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering invites the public to the Raven Precision Agriculture Center on campus to view engineering students’ problem-solving ideas. The senior design projects at this year’s event come from students within five of the engineering college’s majors: mechanical, electrical, civil, agricultural and biosystems engineering and computer science.

Physics students make most of research opportunity

For South Dakota State University physics majors Gavin Baker and Jax Wysong, it is undergraduate research that has set them apart from their contemporaries. In March, they shared their undergraduate research with those gathered at the mass meeting of the American Physical Society in Las Vegas. It is an international gathering with more than 10,000 participants.

SDSU awarded $1.28 million USDA grant to study barriers of ag conservation practices

South Dakota State University has received a $1.28 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. David Clay, a distinguished professor in the Department of Agronomy, Horticulture and Plant Science, will serve as primary investigator for the project, which will demonstrate the benefits of agriculture conservation practices.

Severud's Large Mammal Ecology and Management Lab adventures

The assistant professor in South Dakota State University's Department of Natural Resource Management is a firm believer in hands-on, experiential learning. He created the "Large Mammal Ecology and Management Lab" to provide students those types of opportunities. ...

Roambee partners with Lohr College of Engineering

Last fall, Sanjay Sharma, a 1993 graduate of South Dakota State University and the current CEO of Roambee Corporation, made it a personal goal "to bridge the gap" between Silicon Valley and SDSU. Through an emerging collaboration with the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering, that gap is beginning to close.