BROOKINGS, South Dakota, Nov. 11 -- South Dakota State University issued the following news: * * * New chemical biology consortium will accelerate cancer research By Addison DeHaven At South Dakota State University, students learn about the "Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction" early on during their organic chemistry courses. The reaction, which describes a common synthetic method in natural product synthesis, was first described by Leopold Horner in 1958 and then refined by both William Emmons  more

BROOKINGS, South Dakota, Nov. 14 (TNSjou) -- South Dakota State University issued the following news: * * * The mechanics of secondary lung infections, explained South Dakota State University associate professor Saikat Basu published a study that explains how secondary deep lung infections - like pneumonia - can develop after a throat or nasal infection. By Addison DeHaven One of the biggest concerns with upper respiratory tract infections, like the common cold or a nasal infection, is the   more

BROOKINGS, South Dakota, Nov. 13 -- South Dakota State University issued the following news: * * * South Dakota Cattlemen's Foundation supports state's beef industry By Addison DeHaven In 2013, a group of like-minded cattlemen and cattlewomen came together with a shared vision: secure the long-term viability of South Dakota's beef industry by harnessing the generosity of the state's beef producers. A year later, the South Dakota Cattlemen's Foundation was born. Now a decade into its existen  more

VERMILLION, South Dakota, Nov. 14 -- The University of South Dakota issued the following news: * * * 'Our Towns' Authors See Promise and Ingenuity in the U.S. When Viewed Close Up In their talk at the University of South Dakota on Nov. 6, James and Deborah Fallows recounted four years of trips across the U.S. that they detailed in the 2018 book "Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America." "There are cities and communities that are written about only when something happens,  more

VERMILLION, South Dakota, Nov. 11 -- The University of South Dakota issued the following news: * * * School of Education Expands State-of-the-Art Equipment for Kinesiology and Sport Management The University of South Dakota School of Education's Division of Kinesiology and Sport Management has doubled the value of its teaching and research lab inside the Sanford Coyote Sports Center, bringing the total investment to over $200,000. * The upgraded Kinesiology and Sport Management lab now fea  more

VERMILLION, South Dakota, Nov. 13 -- The University of South Dakota issued the following news: * * * USD Team Achieves Milestone in Germanium Detector Fabrication Dongming Mei, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Physics, and his research group at the University of South Dakota have successfully fabricated high-purity germanium detectors across multiple geometries. * These include planar, planar point-contact, cylindrical point-contact, inverted coaxial point-contact and ring-contact des  more