SDSU awarded $1.28 million USDA grant to study barriers of ag conservation practices
South Dakota State University has received a $1.28 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to demonstrate the benefits of agriculture conservation practices. David Clay, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Agronomy, Horticulture and Plant Science, will serve as the primary investigator.
Cole-Dai awarded NSF grant to study and collect Greenland's ice cores
Jihong Cole-Dai, a professor in South Dakota State University's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been awarded a collaborative $424,310 National Science Foundation grant to study chemicals trapped in the ice cores of Greenland. Cole-Dai and researchers from the University of Washington will travel to Greenland later this spring to collect about 1,000 pounds of ice and snow samples, which will then be transported back to South Dakota and Seattle to be analyzed.
Jennifer Anderson, an associate professor of communication studies in the School of Communication and Journalism at South Dakota State University, has been named the Federation Prize recipient from the Central States Communication Association. The CSCA is one of the top regional organizations in the communication discipline. It promotes rigorous scholarship and sponsors numerous research awards.
Last fall, Sanjay Sharma, a 1993 graduate of South Dakota State University and the current CEO of Roambee Corporation, made it a personal goal "to bridge the gap" between Silicon Valley and SDSU. Through an emerging collaboration with the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering, that gap is beginning to close.
