… and Services, has been named SDSU Civil Service Employee of the Month for May. He will be honored at a reception held from 10-11 a.m. Friday, May 10, in the Facilities and Services commons, room 100. Rogers has worked at SDSU for more than three years, starting as a facility worker before transitioning to equipment repair. Jessica Albee, a Custodial Services supervisor, said Rogers is an easy-going guy who always has a smile on his face … well beyond expectations to ensure our facilities were always in top condition.” Nelson added that Rogers is people-centered and provides any assistance when possible, creating an open, helpful and friendly environment. Program assistant Shawna Asmus agreed, saying Rogers takes his work seriously and is devoted to what he does. “There was never a task that Matt …
… Child and Family Resource Network to host ‘Common-Sense Parenting’ classes in April, May The Child and Family Resource Network at South Dakota State University is hosting its next “Common-Sense Parenting” class series starting April 11. The free, six-class series is designed for parents and individuals who engage with school-age children, kindergarten through …
… Michael Walsh, professor of music at South Dakota State University, will present a recital, “As Voice, With Voice, In Voice,” at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 3, in the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center’s Founders Recital Hall. Walsh, a clarinetist, has been selected to perform at regional, national and international conferences. The program includes “Fantasia on Verdi’s ‘La Traviata,’” “Three Etudes on Themes of Gershwin,” “I Like You,” a work for clarinet and electronic sounds, as well as “Cancion para un Clarinetista” by Javier Zalba. Assisting with the program are faculty members Xuan Kuang, Mark Stevens and Anna DeGraff. The recital is free, and the public is invited to … The program includes “Fantasia on Verdi’s ‘La Traviata,’” “Three Etudes on Themes of Gershwin,” “I Like You,” a work for clarinet and electronic sounds, as well as “Cancion para un Clarinetista” by Javier Zalba. Assisting with the program are faculty members Xuan Kuang, Mark Stevens and Anna DeGraff. The recital is free, and the public is invited to …
… Agriculture Conference on campus June 11-12 Together, education and agriculture can invest in a brighter future. South Dakota State University and Ground Works Connect are partnering to host the second annual South Dakota Education and Agriculture Conference on June 11-12 at the Raven Precision Agriculture Center on campus. Organizers plan to bring together the … middle and high school classrooms. Participants will be eligible for one to two graduate credits or 1.7 continuing education units after full participation in the conference and completion of post-conference activities. Registration is $50 for both days and $30 for one day attendance. The registration deadline is May 20. Educators may be eligible for a … Discovery Center and/or travel reimbursement from the South Dakota Soil Health Coalition if they attend the session on soil health and submit a reflection. Find more information and register for the conference online. Learn more about Ground Works Connect. Academics May. 1, 12:20 PM Jill Fier … Together, education and agriculture can invest in a brighter …
… Elverson ends nearly three-decade career at State Cindy Elverson With the lamp of learning as her guide, it’s not surprising Cindy Elverson followed the path of academia as she advanced in her nursing career. The Missouri native began practicing nursing in 1979 after … there she gained her first taste of teaching, doing classroom and clinical instruction three months a year in the SDSU neonatal nurse practitioner certificate program. Elverson had completed the program herself in 1988. “I always wanted to gain new knowledge. Initially I satisfied that by getting a master’s degree and working in the hospital at that level,” she … and mentoring. However, her favorite research project was one completed in September 2023 that carried a $2.1 million, five-year federal award. Elverson partnered with Staci Born, a registered play therapist and then an assistant professor in counseling, and Christin Carotta, associate professor in human development and family studies. The educators’ “South Dakota …
… SDSU associate professor receives federal grant to help reduce risk of sarcopenia Lee Weidauer , associate professor in South Dakota State University's School of Health and Consumer Sciences , has received a grant from the United States Department of … reduce the risk of sarcopenia. "The goal of this proposal is to improve physical function to allow independence and increased health span for women above the age of 50, while eliminating the barriers of accessibility," Weidauer said. Beginning at age 30, the body will naturally start to lose muscle mass. Some will lose as much as 3-5% of muscle mass per decade. Even … of older adults — although that number is likely low because sarcopenia is not widely diagnosed or treated. Weidauer's project aims to develop and implement an Extension-delivered, community-based, virtual sarcopenia risk reduction program. The five-year study proposes focusing on women ages 50 to 70 years living in seven states: South Dakota, Iowa, Rhode Island, …
… GeoTechTools. This effort started in 2007 with funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Strategic Highway Research Program 2 project. The website www.geotechtools.org was opened to the public in 2012 and has more than 12,000 registered users. The effort earned him recognition from the American Society of Civil Engineers Geo-Institute. He also has traveled internationally to present at conferences and … Minnesota. Headley leads underground research facility at Lead Mike Headley Headley, a Brookings native, graduated from Brookings High School in 1987 and from SDSU in 1992 with a computer science degree. He was active in Air Force ROTC, becoming the national commander of the Arnold Air Society, an honorary service organization for Air Force ROTC officer …
… College of Nursing Scholarly Outcomes 2023 Peer-Reviewed Publications Arends, R. and Heinricy, P. (2023). “Resident and staff satisfaction with telehealth implementation in long-term care … of Health (R21NR020383). Amount awarded: $368,794 over two years (2022-2024). Isaacson, Mary, principal investigator. Impacting Models of Practice and Clinical Training for Registered Nurses and Students (IMPACT-RNS). Funding source: Health Resources and Services Administration, Nurse, Education, Practice, Quality and Retention-Registered Nurses in …
… Can disease-detecting dogs help save South Dakota's bighorn sheep? Novel research from South Dakota State University's Department of Natural Resource Management is exploring if trained dogs can help … for Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae. (Photo by Brady Neiles) Tumultuous history in South Dakota Prior to European settlement, Audubon’s bighorn sheep ( Ovis canadensis auduboni ) were common in the Badlands and Black Hills regions of South Dakota. But, by 1887, bighorns had all but been "cleared out" of the state and now, Audubon's are an extinct subspecies. … infected sheep from the herd is one way to combat outbreaks, how can they be prevented in the first place? The best way to combat the disease is keeping livestock and wild sheep separate," Severud said. Another project collaborative project that one of Severud's graduate students is involved with is understanding the movements of individual bighorns and entire …
… South Dakota Polling Project weighs voters’ opinions on abortion access, recreational marijuana Political scientists in the School of American and Global Studies at South Dakota State University have … access and recreational marijuana. Researchers David Wiltse, associate professor of political science, and Filip Viskupic, assistant professor of political science, surveyed 782 registered voters in the Fall 2023 Poll conducted by the South Dakota Polling Project from Nov. 18 to Dec. 4, 2023. The voters answered questions about political figures and policy … American and Global Studies. The public opinion polls randomly sampled from the South Dakota Voter File of all registered voters in the state and weighted the data on known population parameters to closely match the characteristics of the state’s population. "We started the poll in 2020, both for our own research in public health matters and for questions that are …