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Designing Data-Driven Bioprinting Software for the Biotech Industry
Bioinformatics and 3D bioprinting are revolutionizing the worldwide biomedical device industry. Here in South Dakota, USD researchers are engineering intuitive automation software to speed the bioprinting processes, thanks to funding by the National Science Foundation. […]
Read ArticleGraduate Student Spotlight: Elisha Yellow Thunder
The area of interest for Elisha’s graduate research is located on the ancestral territories of the Oglala Lakota – Oceti Sakowin, located within the Ft. Laramie 1851 & 1868 treaty boundaries of the Wazi Ahanhan […]
Read ArticleSD Discovery Center Educator Named Society for Science Advocate
Bree Oatman, Education Director for the South Dakota Discovery Center in Pierre, is one of 66 educators across the nation to be selected to serve in the Society for Science’s Advocate Program. This award includes […]
Read ArticleFaculty Researcher Spotlight: Nick Klein
Dr. Klein is an instructor of environmental science at Sinte Gleska University (SGU) in Mission, South Dakota, as well as advisor for the SGU chapter of AISES (American Indian Science and Engineering Society). Having grown […]
Read ArticleSpotlight: Summer 2020 DSU Research
From left to right, Christina Maloney (Illinois) and Sammy Drummond (Australia) at Gaylor’s lab. Through astrobiological research conducted the summer of 2020, four Dakota State University (DSU) students studied chemical compounds and minerals found throughout […]
Read ArticleStudent Researcher Spotlight: Marie Severson
Marie Severson is a current Graduate Research Assistant at the University of South Dakota (USD). She’s involved with the USD Neuroscience, Nanotechnology & Networks Program (N3) and Basic Biomedical Sciences Department. She also received her […]
Read ArticleConnecting Students to STEM through Lakota Values at the Sinte Gleska University STEM Horse Camp
Two, 2-week long “STEM Horse Camps” were developed and held in the summer of 2017 at Sinte Gleska University. The camps overlay the cultural importance of horses with the biology and environmental role of the […]
Read ArticleMicroscopy Collaboration Highlight
Researchers combined three unique types of microscopy to track how a protein named clathrin triggers cell membrane bending. The research team essentially filmed live cells internalizing their own membrane using fluorescence on a nanoscale.They found […]
Read ArticleResearchers investigate workings of antibody therapeutics
South Dakota BioSNTR researchers investigate how antibody therapeutics work Written by Christie Delfanian, SDSU Marketing & Communications Brookings, S.D. — Researchers from South Dakota State University and the University of South Dakota are investigating how […]
Read ArticleSD EPSCoR awards South Dakota schools to improve school resources
SD EPSCoR High School Science Lab Makeover and School Challenge Competition awards improve South Dakota schools’ educational resources Outcome: SD EPSCoR is strengthening STEM education in rural and tribal schools across South Dakota by creating […]
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