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BioSNTR Director Featured on Science Podcast

May 14, 2018   |   Categories: Announcements, News & Updates

Dr. Adam Hoppe, Associate Professor of Biochemistry at SDSU was recently on the Bioradiations Brilliant Science Podcast to talk about his research on Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) and the work of BioSNTR. He uses CRISPR to perform […]

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Microscopy Trifecta Examines How Cells Engulf Nutrients, Viruses

April 26, 2018   |   Category: News & Updates

BY CHRISTIE DELFANIAN Scientists have a better understanding of a mechanism that allows cells to internalize beneficial nutrients and not-so-beneficial viruses, thanks to collaboration among researchers from two South Dakota universities and the National Institutes […]

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Researchers Receive I-Corps Team Award from NSF

April 24, 2018   |   Categories: Announcements, News & Updates

University of South Dakota biomedical engineering professors Etienne Gnimpieba, Ph.D., and Carol Lushbough, M.A., have been awarded a National Science Foundation I-Corps Teams Program grant to help transition technology to the marketplace. The award funds […]

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Summer Information Technology Program

April 17, 2018   |   Categories: Announcements, News & Updates

The 2018 SD EPSCoR Summer Information Technology (IT) Program offers two (three-credit hour) dual-credit college courses and a paid internship for the summer.  If you are a high school junior or senior interested in gaining […]

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Teaching Science in Today’s Schools

April 11, 2018   |   Categories: Announcements, News & Updates

As technology continues to evolve and become more pertinent in everyday life, it is imperative that we raise technologically responsible and cognizant citizens. Science classrooms today are often the first to reflect changes in technology, pushing the […]

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Building EPSCoR State/National Laboratory Partnerships

April 5, 2018   |   Categories: Announcements, News & Updates

The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences has released Funding Opportunity Announcement (DE-FOA-0001897) for Building EPSCoR-State/National Laboratory Partnerships.  These partnerships are to advance fundamental early-stage energy research collaborations with the DOE national laboratories.   […]

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FY 2019 SD NASA EPSCoR Research Competition

March 27, 2018   |   Categories: Announcements, NASA EPSCoR, News & Updates

South Dakota NASA EPSCoR Program Guidelines for Submission of Pre-Proposal for Major Research Grants This is the call for pre-proposals for the FY 2019 South Dakota NASA EPSCoR Major Research Grant competition. NASA has not yet […]

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Apply Today for Cybersecurity Training!

March 1, 2018   |   Categories: Announcements, News & Updates

The gap between necessary Cybersecurity skills and the demands placed on Cybersecurity professionals is not only a challenge for the information technology industry, but also a challenge for the scientific research enterprise of the nation. […]

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Science Teachers’ Organization Honors SD EPSCoR

February 15, 2018   |   Categories: Announcements, News & Updates

BROOKINGS, SD – The South Dakota Science Teachers’ Association (SDSTA) has named the South Dakota Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (SD EPSCoR) a recipient of its Friend of Science Award. The award is given annually […]

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4 Ways Science Fairs Benefit Our Children

February 5, 2018   |   Category: News & Updates

The importance of STEM education for our children is increasing rapidly, with the ever-growing technologies of the future cropping up every day. Exposure to STEM education in school is often best applied through experiments and […]

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