… Retired SDSU employees provide funding for 50th, 51st endowed leadership positions Two couples with more than a century of combined service to South Dakota State University have made financial commitments to push the university’s Bold & Blue comprehensive campaign past an important milestone. University and campaign officials established a goal to have commitments for 50 …
… to: Establishment of the concrete industry management program. Awards of excellence to faculty members by their peers. Growth in scholarships. Endowing the dean’s position. Student competition success at the national level. Advancing all three NASA student projects to the finals in 2023. Growth in academic programs. Growth in external research expenditures. … award in 2014 as well as one from the International Conference on Chemical, Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Sciences in 2019. Other • Larry Leigh , current head of the Image Processing Lab, in fall 2015 became the first SDSU researcher to receive a Google Earth Engine Research Award. Through the one-year, $46,000 grant he was able to use Google Earth … that count is up to seven. The positions and the current holders of the titles: • Jerome J. Lohr Endowed Dean for the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering, Sanjeev Kumar (see separate milestone entry. • Klingbeil Endowed Department Head for Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Kasiviswanathan “Muthu” Muthukumarappan. • Harold C. Hohbach Endowed …