Upcoming Events
The role of the land surface in recent trends in the climate of the northern North American Great Plains: observations and high-resolution modeling
Part of the Corothers Life Science Series.
17th Annual BSA Step Show
“Stepping” is a dance form which combines elements of military drills with contemporary Hip Hop. Students will be tearing up the stage with their awesome talent!
Ty Barnett will be serving as the Host/Comedian for the 17th Annual Step Show.
Staying the Course: Lecture by Dick Beardsley
World renowned marathon runner Dick Beardsley will share his life challenges and inspiring stories, leaving the audience with perseverance and courage to face whatever comes their way.
Warrior Wellness
Major Christopher Mercado is a distinguished military graduate with a B.S. in Criminal Justice and Civic Leadership Studies and M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in 2016, where he studied Terrorism and Substate Violence. Chris co-founded a nonprofit organization that combats suicide within the military community.
Diversity Academy Session 2: Ally Training
This session will focus on LGBTQIA+ awareness. Participants will develop skills to promote an inclusive and safe campus environment for the LGBTQIA+ community.
Presenter: Michael Grewe, Director of Campus Life
Augsburg UniversitySocial Media Correlates to Mood and Anxiety Disorder: Research and Treatment implications
This presentation will cover the mood and anxiety issues related to excessive social media use. This topic is an extension of the Common Read topic from Fall 2019.
Dr. Wallace Jackmon is a clinical social worker at Avera Health. He also holds Assistant Professor positions in both the School of Social Work and the School of Medicine at USD. He has expertise related to the effects of excessive social media usage.
Creating Common Ground in a Contentious Political Climate: Studying Thomas A. Daschle’s Leadership Speeches as a Model for Bi-Partisanship
Dr. Rebecca Kuehl will present the 2020 Victor K. Webster Lecture sponsored by the SDSU Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi. Her presentation focuses on her research into the speeches of South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle with specific focus on how he used his leadership speeches to reach across the political aisle to create common ground.
Diversity Academy Session 3: Under Pressure: Exploring the Mental Health of Today's College Students
Students on college campuses across the nation are experiencing heightened levels of depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions. This session will engage participants on current trends of mental health in our student population and give applicable guidance on how to support students' mental health needs in any area of university life.
Presenter: Mary Beth Fishback, MSPAS, MPH
Executive Director, Brookings Behavioral Health & Wellness#VotingWhileBlack
Let’s talk about the journey of this businessman who used the political arena to affect change for his community. Hollies Winston is the Chair and CEO at Guaranteed America Inc.
Sponsored by: Multicultural Center and Black Student Alliance.
A Woman’s Multifaceted Journey
Come learn about this remarkable Oglala Lakota woman whose journey encompasses childhood in the native reservations to a fruitful career with the United States Army!
Lisa White Face is a Military Reservist Army Captain (CPT) and on the civilian side she is a Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal.
Sponsored by: Multicultural Center, Latin American Student Association, and Gender and Sexualities Alliance.
Amanda Andrews - The Queen's Guide to Life
Amanda S. Andrews is an artist, writer, and devotee to all things royal! She is founder and CEO of The Queen's Guide to Life, an esteem building organization for young ladies. As a former state and national pageant title holder, Amanda travels the U.S. empowering women and girls to gain confidence and discover the queen within.
Amanda has utilized her gifts and abilities as an avenue to help women worldwide embrace their regal identities. Come hear about how to empower & embolden your self!
Sponsored by the Multicultural Center and Black Student Alliance.
CommUNITY Meeting featuring Taneeza Islam
Let’s talk about being an Upstander! How to advocate and support others.
Taneeza Islam is the Executive Director for the South Dakota Voices for Peace. She also is a community activist, immigration and civil rights lawyer based in Sioux Falls, SD. Her immigration practice is focused on domestic violence survivors and unaccompanied minors.
Sponsored by the Multicultural Center, Gender and Sexuality Alliance, and Black Student Alliance.
Count Us In: SDSU in a Global World
Laurie S. Fulton is widely recognized for strategic insight and success, as a former partner at Williams & Connolly LLP, as U.S. Ambassador to Denmark (July 2009 to February 2013), and as a Board member of for-profit corporations and non-profit organizations involved in global security and foreign policy. An alumna of SDSU, her talk will explore the role of the liberal arts and SDSU in a global world.
Sharing Science Through Art
Janet Carpenter is a Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis, Indiana. She is one of the world’s leading experts in measuring and treating menopausal hot flashes without hormones.
Community Engagement Abroad: Perspectives and Practices on Service, Engagement, and Learning Overseas
Keynote address for the 2020 International Education Week (sponsored by the Office of International Affairs), based in part on the work of the presenters in incorporating significant community-engaged learning within study abroad programming.
Pat Crawford is the Director of the SDSU School of Design. Brett Berquist is Director, International at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.
Our Changing Climate: A Global Movement of Reform
Bill McKibben is a renowned environmentalist and founder of 350.org, a grassroots climate change movement that has organized 20,000 rallies around the world. He is the author of 18 books, including "The End of Nature," which has been translated into 24 languages and is widely considered to be the first book on climate change for a general audience.
Transitioning to a Sustainable Plastics Economy through Scientific Innovation
Henry A. Lardy Distinguished Lecture Series in Chemistry.
Past Events
Shedding Light on Dark Matter using SuperCDMS Cryogenic Detectors
Dr. Sander is presenting his research at spring colloquium of Department of Physics, SDSU.
Dr. Joel Sander is an Associate Professor of Physics at University of South Dakota, Vermillion,SD.
Systems Microbiology: From Genomes to Ecosystems
Part of the Corothers Life Science Series.
MLK Remembrance Ceremony
This ceremony will honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and affirm those lives that contributed to our resilience in the face of oppression.
Sponsored by the Multicultural Center and Black Student Alliance.
Holistic Resource Management Roadshow and Annual Meeting
Joshua Dukart is a Holistic Management educator and rancher from western North Dakota. Dukart will cover converting a ranch from crisis management to holistic management, creating a profitable ranch business using holistic principles and more.
A Day in the Life of a Young, Professional Landscape Architect
Have you ever wondered what it is like to graduate with your degree in landscape architect, and then take your first professional job? Kene Okigbo presents his perspective on this exciting transition. He discusses what to expect, how to get that first job, and how to fit in with the office.
Challenges on the Farm
Part of the Managing Soil: Maximizing Profit meeting that Extension is hosting. RSVP by November 22.
Livestock Integration
Part of the Managing Soil:Maximizing Profit meeting held by Extension. RSVP by November 22.
Miranda is the NDSU Extension Livestock Environmental Stewardship Specialist. She earned B.S and M.S degrees in Animal and Range Science and a Ph.D. in Natural Resource Management, all from NDSU. The focus of her research and extension program is livestock and environmental interactions, specifically those related to grazing. Her current research focuses include integrated crop livestock systems, riparian ecology and reclamation.
Crop Rotation
Part of the Managing Soil:Maximizing Profit meeting that Extension is hosting. See the link below to RSVP by November 22.
Soil Resiliency
Part of the Managing Soils: Maximizing Profit meeting held by Extension. RSVP by November 22.
Decomposing Long Bond Returns: A Decentralized Modeling Approach
This event is part of our Dykhouse Workshop Series in Money, Banking, and Finance. The series, held in the Ness School of Management and Economics, hosts leading scholars who share their research on monetary and financial economics broadly defined.
Dissecting RNA silencing pathways in white mold fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
Part of the Corothers Life Science Series.
Modulation of Siglec Binding By Cancer Cells Via C7 and C9 Hydroxylation - A Potential Immune Evasion Pathway?
Part of the Corothers Life Science Series.
Dr. Rachel Willand-Charnley, Assistant Professor.
South Dakota State University, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry.November CommUNITY Meeting: Ebo Barton
Come learn about the life of this Black and Filipino, Transgender and Non-Binary, poet and educator.
Ebo Barton currently resides in Seattle, Washington by way of Los Angeles, California. As a representative of Seattle, they’ve been on 4 National Slam Teams and participated at 3 Individual World Poetry Slams. Their most notable poetry slam accolade is placing 5th in the world in 2016. Ebo curated and directed, How to Love THIS Queer Body of Color: An Unapology and wrote and directed the award-winning play, Rising Up.
Build, Buy, or Partner? The Relative Performance of an Acquisitive Strategy
This event is part of our Dykhouse Workshop Series in Money, Banking, and Finance. The series, held in the Ness School of Management and Economics, hosts leading scholars who share their research on monetary and financial economics broadly defined.
The Electronic Properties of the Quasi-One-Dimensional Transition Metal Trichalcogenides
Simeon Gilbert is an SDSU graduate and pursuing PhD in Physics from University of Nebraska, Lincoln under supervision of Prof. Dowben. His research focuses on materials for spintronic devices. He is investigating two-dimensional transition metal tricalcogenides for spintronic field effect transistors. He uses spin polarized photoemission and spin polarized inverse photoemission spectroscopies to directly measure a material’s spin dependent density of states instead of just predicting based on other measurements.
LPN Scope of Practice
Amanda Dvanajscak will be providing a brief presentation to undergraduate BSN students on LPN scope of practice and techniques and strategies to be observed when delegating to these interdisciplinary team members.
Transcriptional, translational and proteolytic regulation of synthetic and natural systems - from oscillators to antibiotic tolerance
Part of the Corothers Life Science Series .
Human Sex Trafficking
Greg Stern shares his accounts of his missions to rescue children from human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
Gregg Stern grew up on a small family farm in South Dakota. Growing up he milked cows, raised pigs and crop farmed corn and beans.
In high school he played football, basketball, wrestling, and baseball. He enjoyed woodworking in school which lead him to rebuild homes after hurricane Katrina, and weightlifting which lead him to start Powershop Gym in Brookings in 1995. Gregg graduated from SDSU with an exercise science degree.
Depository Insurance and Regulatory Discipline
This event is part of our Dykhouse Workshop Series in Money, Banking, and Finance. The series, held in the Ness School of Management and Economics, hosts leading scholars who share their research on monetary and financial economics broadly defined.
Mechanism of inhibition of viral fusion by interferon-induced transmembrane proteins
Gregory Melikian obtained his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the Moscow State University, Russia in 1984. He received further training in membrane biophysics at the Physics Institute in Yerevan, Armenia and held a senior research scientist position at the Orbeli Institute of Physiology, Armenian Academy of Sciences between 1988 and 1990. In 1990, Dr. Melikian joined the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology at Rush University in Chicago as an Instructor and rose through the ranks to a tenured Associate Professor in the same Department.
Learning from our foes - the constantly changing emerging RNA viruses
Part of the Corothers Life Science Series. Open to everyone - public, faculty, staff and students.
Caste Discrimination in America
Martin is a senior investigative reporter for WGBH News in Boston. His multi-part, multi-platform investigation explored the stratification that manifest as discrimination amongst some immigrants and privilege and exclusivity for others. An award-winning reporter, Martin was NPR’s first national race-relations correspondent from 1998-2001.
This public lecture is part of the annual Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Campus Consortium visit.
Play Therapy with Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Training
Come explore how play therapy can be a viable and effective treatment for neurodevelopmental disorders! This training will focus on learning play therapy approaches and interventions that address the core struggle areas of children with autism, ADHD, and other neurodevelopmental disorders which include: social skill deficits, emotional regulation challenges, relationship development issues, concentration and focus issues, and anxiety struggles.
Nature's Allies: Lessons from the Great Conservationists of the Past
Dr. Larry Nielsen, Professor Emeritus of Natural Resources at North Carolina State University (retired January 2018), holds degrees from the University of Illinois (B.S., 1970), University of Missouri (M.S., 1974), and Cornell University (Ph.D., 1978). He served in the US Army (1970-19720 IN Vietnam as a military policeman and laboratory technician. His scholarly interests are higher education administration and sustainable resource management.
Speaker Series: Transforming the face of pharmacy by leading the convergence of science, healthcare and policy
Through the ages, the pharmacist has served as healer, apothecary, chemist and clinician, and today serves as an increasingly essential member of the healthcare team. Meanwhile, biomedical research is at a turning point, building upon the convergence of diverse fields—from genomics to chemistry and mathematics to engineering—to more rapidly translate novel laboratory insights into promising new treatments, just as the government and the markets are promoting the development of high-quality, accessible and affordable new treatments.
Leveraging Bacterial Endophytes as Bio-fertilizer Products
Endophytes are microorganism that live within plant tissues not causing harm. Bacterial endophytes often possess capabilities that can benefit the host plant such as nitrogen fixation, solubilization of recalcitrant phosphate, decreasing stress responses through the production of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) deaminase, the production of plant hormones like indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), or suppressing the growth of pathogenic fungi.
"First Do No Harm": Colonialism and the Weaponization of Medicine
Wicanhpi Iyotan Win Autumn Cavender-Wilson is a Wahpetunwan Dakota mother, midwife and artist living and working near the Upper Sioux Reservation in Minnesota. She has spent her life dedicated to Indigenous language revitalization, cultural reclamation and broader liberation for her people. Seeing birth as a fundamental piece of traditional societal function and a seat of social power, Autumn works to highlight the perinatal period as a catalyst for social change in Indigenous communities.
Judge Advocate General Information
Capt Sturgess, from the Ellsworth AFB Judge Advocates General Office will present a brifing to AFROTC cadets about opportunities in the Air Force JAG Corps. Capt Sturgess is a JAG with Ellsworth AFB.
Who cares about ancient history and military history nowadays?
The talk will be generally about why studying history especially more traditional military and ancient history, is valuable in today's world. Professors Tritle and Palaima are very well respected and published scholars in the area of military and ancient history. The former is an expert on PTSD in the ancient world having served in Vietnam himself, and the latter focuses on war literature and poetry.
The Regulators: Perspectives on Ensuring a Safe and Sound Financial System
Christine Gaffney is the senior vice president for Supervision, Regulation and Credit at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Bret Afdahl is the director of the South Dakota Division of Banking and, currently, chairman of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors.
A Strategy for the Humanities in the 21st Century
Author, historian, and humanist David Staley will speak on the future of the Humanities and the role of humanities disciplines in the modern university at 11 a.m. on October 3 at the Founders Recital Hall in the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center. Dr. Staley is the director of the Humanities Institute and director of the Center for the Humanities in Practice at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education, which was published earlier this year by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Ariel Coro: How Technology Impacts the U.S. Latinx Community
Technology expert, media personality and Latino author Ariel Coro will discuss how technology impacts the Latinx community in the U.S.
***Please note: This event is part of the 2019 Common Read and is one of the "CommUNITY Meetings" hosted by the Office of Multicultural Affairs. ***
USD MSW program: Preparing for a career as a Social Worker
Dr. Bass will present to students in SOC 270 Intro to Social Work to explain the MSW program options, material covered and important skills necessary to prepare for a career in the helping professions. Following the formal presentation he will meet informally with any students who have questions about the MSW program.
Dr. Kelly Bass is the coordinator of the USD MSW program.
Speaker Series: Coping With a Fast-Changing World: Why Geography Matters
Drawing on his latest book, “Geography: Why It Matters,” Murphy explains why geography, a subject concerned with how people, environments, and places are organized and interconnected, is so important. Geographical perspectives and techniques provide critical insights into a planet undergoing unprecedented change as a result of rising sea levels, deforestation, species extinction, rapid urbanization, modern technologies, and mass migration.
Increasing crop yield for dryland agricultural production system
Part of the Corothers Life Science Series.
What Populism Today Teaches Us About Ourselves
Dr. Kirk Hawkins is an associate professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, where he teaches Latin American politics. He studies populism and political organization and is the author or co-author of several books, including Venezuela’s Chavismo and Populism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge UP, 2010), Latin American Party Systems (Cambridge UP, 2010), The Ideational Approach to Populism: Concept, Theory, and Analysis (Routledge 2019), and Contemporary US Populism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge UP, 2019).
Close-mindedness
Dr. Heather Battaly is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Battaly specializes in epistemology, ethics, and virtue theory. She is a leading researchers on the concept of intellectual humility, and is a pioneer on the topic of epistemic vice. Her work influences research in philosophy, psychology and education on intellectual humility and the teaching of intellectual character traits.
The Liberal Arts and Technology: Our Need for Ethics
In 2016, news erupted that the FBI had asked Apple to hack their own phone, raising issues of privacy for millions of users. Facebook has continually been in the news with questions about user data and how our privacy is affected. With the rapid growth of technology and social networks, intense questions have arisen regarding user privacy and what it means to be human in a virtual world. In this lecture, Dr. Tsakiridis presents issues connected to technology, big data, and privacy/identity, forging a path forward with ethical thinking.
Plant reproductive evolution at geographical range limits
Born in the UK, Professor Barrett obtained his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and is an evolutionary biologist with interests in the evolution of plant reproductive systems and the ecology and genetics of invasions. Over his 40-year academic career at the University of Toronto, where he is now Emeritus University Professor, he has published over 300 scientific articles, edited five books, and has trained ~55 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, many of whom are now successful university faculty.
2019 Northern Plains Indian Art Market Juror's Forum Lecture
South Dakota Art Museum is pleased to host the 2019 Northern Plains Indian Art Market Juror's Forum Lecture, featuring Cole Redhorse Jacobson speaking about Dakota Puckertoes and the Woodland Heritage.
Session Three: Rematriating Leadership and Land
Louise McDonald Herne (Wakerakatste) is a condoled Bear Clan Mother for the Mohawk Nation Council. She is a trusted advisor for families and community youth and works closely with them in their homes and schools. Through her work as a matrilineal leader and as a mother, she is a founding member of Konon:kwe Council, a circle of Mohawk women working to reconstruct the power of their origins through education, empowerment and trauma-informed approaches.
2019 Stuart Artist-in-Residence
The events are free and open to the public. For parking and additional information, please contact the School of Design at (605) 688-4103 or sdsu.schoolofdesign@sdstate.edu.
This event is sponsored by the South Dakota State University School of Design and funded by the Joe and Signe Stuart Fund.
Permanent tension: Iran, the United States and the World
Dr. Schorn's lecture will focus on the history of and current status of US- Iran relations including the new tensions since the US withdrew from the multinational Iranian Nuclear Agreement.
Dr. Schorn is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Studies Program at USD. Dr. Schorn has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East leading tours and participating in seminars.
On Capá prieto, myths of Afro-Puerto Rican women, and Puerto Rican literature
Capá Prieto has ‘negritude’ as its central theme. Interweaving history and fiction, the book revises Puerto Rican mainstream version of history as it inserts stories of Afro-Puerto Ricans, that is, of men and women on the other side of Puerto Rico’s history whose sociocultural contributions to the historiography of the nation have been silenced or minimized by hegemonic discourses of identity.
Keynote Speaker: Yvonne Dennis Rosario
Keynote Speaker* for the SD World Languages Association Conference 2019
Yvonne Dennis Rosario
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras“On Capá prieto, Myths of Afro-Puerto Rican women, and Puerto Rican literature”
Consumption and income dynamics of the rural poor: Evidence for behavioral consumption theories using high-frequency household-level income-diary data in rural Uga
Dr. David R. Just is an agricultural economist who examines individual decisions involving both consumers and producers in the food system. His work has examined public policy issues around food choice, food assistance, and the impact of biofuel policy on food markets.
Network-Based Discovery for Plant Steroid Hormone Regulation of Growth and Stress Responses
Plant steroid hormones, Brassinosteroids (BRs), regulate plant growth and stress responses. BRs act through plasma membrane receptors BRI1/BAK1 and a cascade of signaling components to control the activities of BES1 and BZR1 family transcription factors, which regulate the expression of thousands of genes for various BR responses. Our recent studies showed that under drought conditions, BES1 is targeted to autophagy pathway to slow down plant growth.
SD World Languages Association Conference 2019
Language Makes Us Human
The Carboxysome Life Cycle: Biogenesis and Degradation of Carbon-Fixing Organelles in Cyanobacteria
Jeffrey Cameron is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and an Institute Fellow in the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI) at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He also holds a Joint Appointment at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, CO. This event is part of the Corother's Life Science Series.
Speaker Series: Weak (Theatrical) Modernisms
Keynote address for Staging the Space Between, the 21st annual conference of The Space Between Society: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945. This international society for the study of the period between the First and Second World Wars provides an interdisciplinary forum for discussion and research of texts, authors and new approaches to traditionally canonical works.
21st Annual Conference of The Space Between Society: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945
The Space Between Society: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 is an international society for the study of the literature and culture of the period between the First and Second World Wars. It provides an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary forum for discussion and research of texts, authors and new approaches to traditionally canonical works. It also encourages fresh examinations of art, society and culture illuminating the interwar and wartime periods.
Speaker Series: Why your Microbiome Analysis is Wrong
Iddo Friedberg is an Associate Professor for the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine at Iowa State University. This speaking event is a part of the Corothers Life Science Series.
Speaker Series: Novel Launch: Of Fathers and Fire (Rescheduled)
Steven Wingate is a multigenre author whose work ranges from poetry to gaming. His books include the novel, "Of Fathers and Fire," coming from the University of Nebraska Press in 2019, and the award-winning short story collection, "Wifeshopping." His digital works include the interactive memoir, daddylabyrinth, and the interactive romance novel, "Love at Elevation," published in 2018 by Choice of Games. He is an associate professor of English at South Dakota State University and associate editor at Fiction Writers Review.
Speaker Series: South Dakota Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
Melissa DeNoon is employed by SD Board of Pharmacy and will be discussing use of PDMP in healthcare and ways to incorporate into pharmacy practice.
Speaker Series: Long Term Care Pharmacy Regulations
As a consultant pharmacist with Avera long term care, Anna will be discussing regulations imposed on long term care facilities and how pharmacists help attain those requirements.
Speaker Series: Marvelous Biological Control of the Reactivity of Molecular Oxygen
25th lecturer in the Lardy Distinguished Lecture Series. This is the public lecture. A scientific lecture will be given to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry on Tuesday April 23rd at 12pm. The scientific lecture is titled In-Crystal Reaction Cycle of a Toluene-Bound Diiron Hydroxylase.
Speaker Series: Engaging Students through Green Chemistry, Sustainable Polymers, and Guided-Inquiry Experiment
Department Seminar for Chemistry and Biochemistry. Topic is student engagement via green chemistry.
Speaker Series: Urban Native Era
Urban Native Era is a group of collective youth, inspired by the Idle No More Movement, striving to create a vision and voice for 7th generation Native America by reclaiming traditional knowledge and identity in a rapidly changing world; simultaneously redefining what it means to be indigenous and free. The Urban Native Era brand has created at tangible and meaningful way of bringing awareness to issues within Indian Country.
Speaker Series: Interrupting Rape Worldwide: Notes on a Difficult Task
Funded by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Newman investigates whether violence prevention programs can be expanded to address intimate partner violence and reduce infections that rape can spread. M. Sophia Newman is a health journalist and medical editor from Chicago with a master’s degree in public health. Linking her public health background with an interest in creative non-fiction, she has been published in The Atlantic, Religion & Politics, Tricycle, Vice, Vox, Tin House, Literary Hub, Next City, and elsewhere.
Speaker Series: Poetry Reading
Lee Ann Roripaugh is the author of four volumes of poetry: Dandarians (Milkweed, Editions, 2014), On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year (Southern Illinois University Press, 2009), Year of the Snake (Southern Illinois University Press, 2004), and Beyond Heart Mountain (Penguin, 1999). A fifth volume, tsunami vs. the fukushima 50, is forthcoming from Milkweed in 2018. She was named winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry/Prose for 2004, and a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series.
Canceled - Speaker Series: Break them or starve them; anything is fair in a war against Salmonella
Dr. Devendra Shah is an Associate professor of veterinary microbiology in the Department of Veterinary Microbiology & Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine at Washington State University. Over the last 20 years, his research has focused on pheno-genomics of contemporary and archived populations of Salmonella that use wide spectrum of ecological niches including persistence in animal hosts, environment and foods and are transmitted from animals to people via food and other sources. Using Salmonella as a model organism, Dr.
Canceled - Speaker Series: Using Social Science to Address the Suicide Epidemic
Michael J. Staley is the Psychological Autopsy Examiner at the Utah Office of the Medical Examiner. The Utah Legislature created Staley’s position in 2017 in response to Utah’s high suicide death rate. Staley’s work is mixed method: he uses secondary data from various agencies and databases to analyze suicide death across all age groups. At the same time, Staley leads a team of interviewers who conduct in-depth interviews of parents, peers, educators, employers, and treatment providers to gain a better understanding of the circumstances of someone’s life before they died by suicide.
Speaker Series: Antibiotic effects on animal microbiomes
Dr. Looft is a Research Microbiologist in the Food Safety Enteric Pathogens research unit at the USDA-National Animal Disease Center in Ames IA. He completed his BS and MS at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, and his PhD at Iowa State University, Ames, IA, where he studied swine microbiomes and the effects of antibiotic feed additives on intestinal microbial populations.
Speaker Series: Warrior Women Documentary Showing
In the 1970s, with the swagger of unapologetic Indianness, organizers of the American Indian
Seminar: Lupus and Snurps: Bench to Bedside and Back Again
Dr. Joan Steitz is an influential biochemist who is especially known for her work on RNAs and ribosomes. At the beginning of her career, Dr. Steitz was the first female graduate student to work under Dr. James Watson, one of the Nobel Laureates known for determining the structure of DNA.
Speaker Series: VANG: A Drama about Recent Immigrant Farmers
VANG (“farm” in Hmong), a drama, was created by Mary Swander, Poet Laureate of Iowa, photographer Dennis Chamberlin and Matt Foss. Vang documents the journeys of four recent immigrant couples as they make farming a part of their daily lives. Based on true stories woven together by Iowa Poet Laureate, Mary Swander, Vang is a story about survival and the deep desire to return to the land.
Speaker Series: How Do We Fight All Forms of Malnutrition in a Sustainable Way?
Martin Bloem, Robert S. Lawrence Professor and Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, joined the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in December 2017, relocating to Baltimore from Rome, Italy, where he spent 12 years as a senior nutrition adviser at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and as the WFP’s Global Coordinator for UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Martin has more than three decades of experience in research on public health, nutrition, emergencies and food systems.
Speaker Series: De Novo Designed PDZ domains
Department seminar to Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Topic is concerned with protein-protein interactions.
Seminar: The antibiotic action of methylarsenite is an emergent property of microbial communities
Barry Rosen is a distinguished University Professor, in the department of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University.
Speaker Series: Working with Mentally Ill Homeless Populations
Jill Baldwin is the former Director of Community Support Services. Having worked in community support services, the speaker will discuss working with those who mentally ill and homeless. The talk is designed to give sociology majors ideas for potential careers in social services.
Seminar: Identification and Characterization of Disease Resistance Genes of Wheat and Wheat Relatives
This presentation is part of the Corothers Life Science Series.
Using art to explain science / International expert in hot flashes finds simple way to share info
By using simple artwork, a noted nurse scientist is making often-confusing information on a whisper-only topic a little more approachable.
Janet Carpenter’s topic—one that she has been researching for 20 years—is menopause, specifically hot flashes. Using artwork to explain the science, debunk the myths and offer treatment recommendations is comparatively new for Carpenter. It is a product of a 2017 sabbatical from Indiana University School of Nursing, where she is a distinguished professor and associate dean for research.
Speakers Series: The New North: Four Forces Shaping the World in 2050
Four global forces are changing humanity and the planet. Laurence Smith explores what life will be like if population increases to 10 million, temperature and sea level rise dramatically, and globalization continues. The most dramatic changes will occur in the New North: the Arctic Ocean and surrounding countries. Laurence C. Smith is a geographer with research interests in the Arctic, remote sensing, and hydrology. He teaches physical geography and remote sensing at UCLA. His most recent book is The New North: Four Forces Shaping the World in 2050.
Speaker Series: Domestic Violence
The purpose of the presentation by the guest speaker is to help the students learn about domestic violence from someone who works with victims of domestic violence. The speaker will also talk about Brookings Domestic Abuse Shelter and the services it provides.
Speaker Series: Violence and Bystander Intervention Training
Michelle Trent is a licensed professional counselor in mental health. She works for the Compass Center, an organization that provides services to those dealing with issues of rape and domestic and partner violence. In this highly interactive presentation, the speaker will explain what to do if you are a bystander and see violence happening.
Speaker Series: Study the molecular attenuation mechanisms of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus for rational design of effective vaccines
Dr. Qiuhong Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, Food Animal Health Research Program, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Ohio State University.
Speaker Series: Design with Users: When Architects Envision a Walkable Downtown Together with the Public
The SDSU Chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi presents the 2019 Victor K Webster lecture. Dr. Fang Xu will present on his work in participatory design with architecture students at SDSU and designers and local users in Watertown, SD to envision a future for downtown Watertown.
Speaker Series: Adventures with organic peroxides: synthesis, application as reagents and reaction intermediates, and approaches to controlled destruction
This even is a professional seminar to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. The speaker will address cutting edge research in organic chemistry.
Speaker Series: Moldova: The Destiny of a Small Nation in the Shadow of Russia
Join us at the museum for a presentation given by Dr. Marius Teritsa, a Fulbright Scholar in residence at SDSU. This event is free to the public, so make sure to come and support our visiting scholar!
Speaker Series: The Link between toxin production and sporulation in C. difficile
Dr. Revathi Govind received her Ph. D. in Medical Microbiology and Immunology from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas. She completed her postdoctoral training at Institute Pasteur, Paris, France. She is currently an Associate Professor at Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.
Speaker Series: Do plants feel pain? Stress signaling in Arabidopsis
Simon Gilroy is a Professor of Botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Simon is speaking about plants and stress signaling in Arabidopsis as a part of the Corothers Life Science Series.
Speaker Series: The Road from Lost Boy to Professional Career
Davud Jal was born in a village in South Sudan. At 10, he was forced to flee and spend the next 10 years in various refugee camps in East Africa. Eventually, he was resettled as a refugee in Sioux Falls. David earned a Bachelor's degree in Social Work, and with a fellowship through the Bush Foundation, completed a Master's degree in Social Work.
Speaker Series: Laser Probing of Neutron-Deficient Rare Isotopes
Part of professional seminar program in Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, presenters will discuss latest findings in their sub-discipline of chemistry.
Speaker Series: Identification and Characterization of Stress-responsive Genes in Soybean and Sunflower Genomes
Surendra Neupane is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Biology & Microbiology at South Dakota State University. He joined SDSU Nepal’s lab in for his Ph.D. in Fall 2015. Before joining SDSU, he obtained his M.S. in Biotechnology from Tribhuvan University, and worked as an Assistant Research Fellow at Nepal Academy of Science and Technology, in Kathmandu Nepal.
Speaker Series: An Overview of the Human, Political, Economic and Geographical Diversity of Africa
Dr. Owusu's keynote address will be the opening event for a symposium on Africa hosted by SD World Affairs Council. Three 75 minute panels scheduled for 9:30 am, 11:00 am and 2:00 pm will follow on Tuesday, January 29. Dr. Owusu is Professor and Chair of the Department of Community and Regional Planning at Iowa State. He is a native of Ghana and a member of the African and African American Studies Program Advisory Committee at Iowa State.
