The South Dakota State University-led Center for Drug, Disease and Delivery, which recently received a five-year, $3.9 million award from the South Dakota Research and Commercialization Council, seeks to develop new formulations and therapeutic targets for approved drugs to treat cancer and other diseases.
Associate professor Evren Celik Wiltse and assistant professor Lisa Hager of the School of American and Global Studies examined the biographies of 120 women who have led their countries to determine the pathways through which they gained power.
“Women’s Paths to Power: Female Presidents and Prime Ministers, 1960–2020” was published this spring.
Harvesting seeds from small plots of perennial native wildflowers may not only provide producers with a new income source, but also improve soil health and thereby increase the sustainability of agricultural production. That is the goal of a five-year, nearly $500,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture research project led by associate professor Lora Perkins in the Department of Natural Resource Management.
Antibody testing of health care workers in three rural counties in eastern South Dakota and western Minnesota showed only 15% of the study participants had antibodies to the novel coronavirus.
“Antibodies (to the novel coronavirus) show the true prevalence (of COVID-19) in the population,” according to South Dakota State University assistant professor Natalie Thiex, whose research team in the Department of Biology and Microbiology led the study.
Blending poetry and architecture has become part of life for South Dakota Poet Laureate Christine Stewart—she combines these distinct creative processes in her new book, “The Poet and the Architect.”
“The title speaks to our relationship, but also to these two different ways of looking at art and places,” explained Stewart, who married Brian T. Rex, head of the Department of Architecture in 2013.