MADISON, South Dakota, Oct. 20 (TNSres) -- Dakota State University issued the following news: Five Dakota State graduate students have been awarded in-house funding through the Graduate Research Initiative (GRI) program. Both online and on-campus students were able to submit research proposals, which were reviewed by a team of graduate faculty and doctoral students. A blind jury process was used to review the proposals. Those selected receive a $500 stipend for data collection, analysis, or re  more

MADISON, South Dakota, Oct. 19 (TNSawa) -- Dakota State University issued the following news: Katherine Cota was presented with the Collaborator Award at the South Dakota Biotech Summit this month. Cota, the Director of Economic Development at Dakota State University, was chosen for the award due to her efforts with South Dakota FAST Launch and other shepherding programs critical to fostering talent and innovation for biotechnology in the state. In 2021, Dakota State began providing the found  more

PIERRE, South Dakota, Oct. 22 -- Gov. Kristi Noem, R-South Dakota, issued the following commentary on Oct. 21, 2022: * * * Economic Growth the South Dakota Way It's no secret that costs are rising in just about every aspect of our daily lives. We've talked quite a bit about the skyrocketing cost of food and gas, and our businesses are facing these challenges, too. Rising costs can create a lack of predictability about the future. Thankfully, over the past few years, South Dakota has built an   more

ABERDEEN, South Dakota, Oct. 19 (TNSawa) -- Northern State University issued the following news: Three Northern State University students were selected for a panel at a recent national humor studies conference--and one of the students took home a top award. NSU student Kenissa Ross, from Aberdeen, won the Eugenio E. Zaldivar Award for Top Undergraduate Paper at the annual meeting of the Lighthearted Philosophers' Society, which was held Oct. 7-8 in Greensboro, N.C. Ross, an English major with  more

PIERRE, South Dakota, Oct. 18 -- The South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources issued the following news release: The South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources (DANR) awarded five projects over $390,000 to enhance the competitiveness of South Dakota specialty crops around the state. Support for these projects comes through the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS).  more

BROOKINGS, South Dakota, Oct. 19 (TNSres) -- South Dakota State University issued the following news: The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation recently announced the award of five grants, $50,000 each, that will support bold, early-stage interventions designed to improve the health and health care of marginalized populations. Among those grantees are South Dakota State University's Mary Isaacson, an associate professor in the College of Nursing, and Tiara Ruff, a mentor in the College of Nursing's   more

RAPID CITY, South Dakota, Oct. 20 (TNSjou) -- The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology issued the following news release on Oct. 19, 2022: Weathering and erosion are constant processes on Earth, and dissolution due to rainwater is one of the primary ways rocks and minerals break down. But paleontologists have not yet gained a complete understanding of the rate fossils erode once they are exposed at the surface. South Dakota Mines graduate student Colleen Sullivan set out to get some answ  more

JUNEAU, Alaska, Oct. 22 (TNSsel) -- The University of Alaska-Southeast issued the following news release: University of Alaska Southeast Education faculty Angela Lunda has recently been awarded her Doctor of Philosophy in Indigenous Studies by the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). Lunda's dissertation, titled, "I'm a killer whale: The process of cultural identity development from the perspectives of young Indigenous children," was presented September 14. The dissertation co-chairs were UAF   more