South Dakota State University professor Xijin Ge received a $1.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to enhance ShinyGO, a widely used bioinformatics website for analyzing genomics data. In the world of bioinformatics research, ShinyGO has become a popular tool. The website, hosted by SDSU, has been visited over 900,000 times by scientists across the world. The original article showcasing ShinyGO, which was published in the journal Bioinformatics in 2020, has been cited over 2,800 times.
For nearly a decade, a pair of South Dakota State University researchers — Greg Michna and Stephen Gent — have been working to understand the intricate details of the flow of liquid argon inside giant tanks that are designed to detect elusive particles called neutrinos. The team's work is in support of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) being built a mile under South Dakota’s Black Hills.
South Dakota State University, in conjunction with the Child and Family Resource Network, received a Child Care Quality Improvement grant from the South Dakota Department of Social Services to work on a Quality Recognition and Information System (QRIS). The South Dakota State University Quality Collaborative's main purpose was to design and implement an early childhood QRIS pilot program in South Dakota and to come up with common benchmarks of quality that will enable child care providers to identify their program’s strengths as well as areas for growth.
South Dakota State University freshman Mackenzie Hollenbeck got a unique opportunity to visit the Sanford Underground Research Facility, home to laboratories a mile underground, as part of the Davis-Bahcall Scholars Program this summer.
“Going down in the SURF mine was such an interesting experience,” Hollenbeck said. "The scale of everything is so impressive. We had heard the numbers and knew we were going a mile underground. But it didn’t feel real until we stepped into the elevator with all our gear and it took us 11 ½ minutes to get down there, and then we spent another 25 minutes walking through the tunnels to get to the lab."
As part of the program, Hollenbeck visited labs at SDSU; Solventum in Aberdeen; physical science labs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Fermilab, located outside of Chicago; and Boulby Underground Laboratory, an operational salt mine on the coast of England near Whitby.
South Dakota State University's medical laboratory science program received 28 microscopes and an innovative slide scanner as part of a $750,000 award from the South Dakota Department of Health.
“Each microscope has its own computer screen, making SDSU the only university in the nation with these types of microscopes for a medical laboratory science program,” said April Nelsen, SDSU's medical lab science clinical coordinator
Lee Weidauer, associate professor in South Dakota State University's School of Health and Human Sciences, has received a $1,091,218 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop an exercise and nutrition program to 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.
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