SDSU materials testing engineering lab opens Monday
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| John Feldhacker, a mechanical engineering graduate student from Hawarden, Iowa, works on the immersion ultrasonic nondestructive testing system to detect flaws and cracks inside a gun barrel. The machine process will demonstrated at an open house today in Crothers Engineering Hall Room 147. |
The Mechanical Engineering Department will host an open house for its new Materials Testing and Evaluation Lab in Crothers Engineering Hall (room 147) today, June 23, from 1:30 to 3 p.m.
The event will showcase equipment purchased in the first two years of a three-year, Department of Defense (DOD) research grant, which began in September 2006. The grant started a project called Fatigue Odometer Systems.
Under this first award, SDSU received $807,000 that continues through a second award and a new project name, Advanced Nondestructive and Evaluation Testing and Fatigue Odometer for Department of Defense Components and Gun Barrels (ANFO).
The new combined project, ANFO, will start in July with a $3.345 million budget. SDSU will be the prime contractor and continue work through 2011 for a total project of $13.232 million.
The DOD monies came with the help of Senator Tim Johnson and Representative Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin, whose representatives will attend Monday?s open house.
Mechanical Engineering Professor Fereidoon Delfanian, project director, said his team will demonstrate two major pieces of equipment during the open house, an ultrasonic nondestructive immersion tank (UT) and a fatigue testing system.
The UT immersion tank can handle a cylinder up to five feet in length rotating it in the gantry to examine it nondestructively through ultrasonic scanning for flaws and cracks.
The fatigue testing unit is capable of exerting torsion, bending, compression and tension loads on a specimen that will give the properties of that specimen to show its strength at room temperature and also at elevated temperatures up to 1400 degrees Celsius.
The research team consists of associate professor Zhong Hu of the Mechanical Engineering Department and graduate students John Feldhacker, Hawarden, Iowa, and Adam Goblish, Milroy, Minn.
For this grant, the SDSU team is working with partners American Science and Technology Corporation, Augusta Systems, Inc., Batcheller Consulting, and the United States Army Benet Laboratories.
Morgan?s paintings depict local scenes with insight, vision
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| Dorothy Morgan uses thick paint to visually describe South Dakota landscapes. Morgan said she was surprised at how thick the paint was on work by artists like Harvey Dunn that she studied as a student. |
South Dakota Art Museum is hosting an exhibition of paintings by Dorothy Morgan, a South Dakota native and award-winning artist, June 24-Sept. 28.
Morgan, a Brookings resident, graduated from SDSU in 1981 with a bachelor's degree in art with a painting emphasis.
She got her national break when entering her work in a competition for the American Artist Magazine. Two of her paintings were selected, and she became a prize winner in the show.
After touring in several major cities, the traveling show ended in the John Pence Gallery in San Francisco, a gallery Morgan has been with for 20 years.
Morgan said her landscape paintings are done from scenes within 30 miles of the Brookings area. She has two grown children and lives on an acreage near Brookings with her husband.
A reception for Morgan is Sept. 19 at 4 p.m. at the South Dakota Art Museum. For more information, contact the museum, 688-5423.
?Move Over? takes the Prairie Repertory Theatre stage
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| Henry (Mark Swan, Wall) and Linda Lodge (Allison Weiland, Madison) plot romantic indiscretions behind one another's backs as part of ?Move Over, Mrs. Markham,? set to open June 25 in Doner Auditorium on the SDSU campus. |
Prairie Repertory Theatre opens the comic production ?Move Over, Mrs. Markham? June 25.
The show plays nightly in Doner Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. through June 28. A Sunday, June 29, matinee is at 2 p.m. The show contains adult themes and language and may not be suitable for children.
Tickets are $16 for adults, $14 for senior citizens 62 and over, $10 for SDSU employees, $9 for non-SDSU students and children, and free for SDSU students with an ID. Patrons can purchase season books to see all four shows at a reduced price.
For inquiries about show times or ticket prices, the PRT Audience Services Office can be contacted at 688-6045, the website at www.prairierep.org or the Performing Arts Center box office.
The following are dates and times for Prairie Repertory Theatre summer shows:
Bingo
Brandon: July 23-24, Brandon Valley Performing Arts Center, 7:30 p.m.
Escanaba In Love
Brandon: July 25-26, July 30, Brandon Valley Performing Arts Center, 7:30 p.m.; matinee: July 27, 2:00 p.m.
Move Over, Mrs. Markham
Brookings: June 25-28, Doner Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.; matinee, June 29, 2:00 p.m.
Brandon: July 16-18, Brandon Valley Performing Arts Center, 7:30 p.m.
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Brookings: July 9-12, Doner Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.; matinee, July 13, 2:00 p.m.
Brandon: July 31-Aug. 2, Brandon Valley Performing Arts Center, 7:30 p.m.; matinee, Aug. 3, 2:00 p.m.
Regents to hold open forum on campus
The Board of Regents and Tad Perry will hold an SDSU Community Forum June 27 at 11 a.m. in the Volstorff Ballroom (101A ) at The Union. All are welcome. For more information, contact Mary Kidwiler, Career Services Advisory Council chairperson, 688-5133.
Bob Burns retirement celebration this week
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| Honors College Dean Bob Burns will celebrate his retirement at an event Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m. in Roberts Reception Hall of the PAC. |
A retirement celebration for Distinguished Professor Bob Burns will be held June 28 from 4 to 6 p.m. in Roberts Reception Hall at the Performing Arts Center.
?I have immensely enjoyed my 38 years here at State,? said Burns. ?It has been a continuous joy and light in my life.
l be 66 this summer, and I have always thought I?d like to retire while my peers and superiors have a positive impression of my performance.?
A native of Flandreau, Burns and his wife, Donna, have three children: Cari Anne, Timothy, and Jonathon; and nine grandchildren. Burns earned his bachelor?s degree in political science from SDSU in 1964. He obtained a master?s degree (1966) and a Ph.D. (1973) at the University of Missouri in Columbia.
He came to SDSU as a teaching assistant from 1967 to 1968. After serving in the U.S. Army as a captain and a senior intelligence officer, he returned to SDSU as a professor of political science from 1970 to 1985. He has been Department Head of Political Science since 1989 and Dean of the Honors College since 1998.
Burns plans to remain in Brookings after retirement, at least for a while. He has traveled extensively and hopes to continue doing so, but with more freedom to decide the ?when and where? factor.
Counting plant, animal species is the goal for Saturday
Scientists are encouraging the public to participate in a one-day BioBlitz June 28 at SDSU?s Oak Lake Field Station.
Scientists hope to count as many plant and animal species as possible from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. while offering programs and presentations for the public.
The day will include a number of programs and presentations about mammals, birds and fish with hands-on information from naturalists and researchers.
Visitors will be able to hike around the field station grounds to observe scientists from across the state collecting samples. Brookings Girl Scouts will be on hand selling food and snacks.
The BioBlitz is designed to educate the public about species in their own backyard and to improve future management of the area with increased data to identify endangered and non-native species.
The Oak Lake Field Station is 22 miles northeast of Brookings.
For detailed directions and a printable map, go to http://biomicro.sdstate.edu/Oaklake/OAKMAP.HTM  or call 688- 6141.
SDSU seeks clinical lab science/medical tech accreditation
SDSU?s clinical laboratory science (CLS)/medical technology program is pursuing accreditation to meet a growing national need for clinical laboratory scientists, according to Professor James Rice, head of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
The CLS program is now a three-plus-one program, which means that CLS majors take three years of coursework and spend one additional year interning at an accredited hospital-based school of medical technology/clinical laboratory science.
If the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences gives the accreditation, all four years of study will be granted through a Bachelor of Science degree from SDSU.
Clinical laboratory scientists perform hospital lab work in a variety of areas, including microbiology, chemistry, hematology, immunology and blood banking.
Deborah Pravecek, assistant professor of chemistry and 2007 member of the year for the South Dakota chapter of the American Society of Clinical Laboratory Science, has spearheaded the accreditation effort.
The new accreditation would not only keep students in the state, but also attract out-of-state students to SDSU and the state medical workforce, said Rice.
For more information, contact the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 688-5151.
Proposal being prepared for master?s degree in physics
SDSU is in the first stages of developing a new graduate program in physics.
The Board of Regents gave SDSU and two other state schools permission to develop a proposal for a Master of Science degree in physics.
It is likely that the three institutions will share coursework over the Dakota Digital Network, similar to advanced undergraduate courses already being offered that way.
The eight faculty members of the physics department will likely cover the basic courses needed for the program including classical mechanics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics.
Research areas in satellite calibration, materials studies, astrophysics and nuclear/SDUSEL topics are already in place or being developed.
The graduate degree in physics, along with opportunities available through the Sanford Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory, should attract more bright-minded people to SDSU and South Dakota and help keep those already here in the state, according to Oren Quist, head of the physics department.
The plan for regent approval will be based on an evaluation of current advanced physics programs around the nation and will be tailored to enhance South Dakota?s strengths and capabilities.
About 600 students per semester take a physics course at SDSU fulfilling requirements for a number of majors including pre-med, pre-physical therapy, pharmacy and engineering.
Students construct playground as part of curriculum
How often do graduate students hang out with each other on the playground?
For students in Paul Fokken?s park and recreation management (PRM) class and Ruth Harper?s counseling and human resource development (CHRD) class, the answer came through building a playground together on the Rosebud reservation.
Funded by a grant that paid for the equipment, the students created a play space for children of women staying at the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society?s shelter in Mission.
Working with tribal members, SDSU professors Russ Stubbles, horticulture, forestry, landscape and parks department, and Paul Fokken, health, physical education and recreation, developed the innovative service project to improve quality of life on Rosebud.
Following numerous visits to the reservation to conduct focus groups, the need for positive recreational activity became the goal. One assessment identified the need for a playground at the shelter in Mission.
Fokken and Melissa Hauschild-Mork collaborated with the society?s director and submitted a request for a $30,000 grant to the Larson Foundation in Brookings. The grant was approved, along with approval of another $18,000 proposal that Fokken submitted to the GameTime Playground Company.
After the awards were made, Fokken worked with representatives of Premier Recreations Products, an organization that sells and installs GameTime Playgrounds, to coordinate installation of the equipment. The plan was to complete a vendor-supervised installation with park and recreation students from SDSU.
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SDSU students helped install playground equipment on the Rosebud reservation this spring. The students were from Ruth Harper?s counseling and human resource development and Paul Fokken?s park and recreation management classes. |
Teachers travel to Turkey to enhance teaching firsthand
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| The 2008 Turkish Cultural Foundation exchange teachers gathered May 28 at Rugs and Relics in Sioux Falls to prepare for their July trip. The group included from front left, Harriet Swedlund, SDCWA and Sally Rice, Edison Middle School, Sioux Falls; back left Gary Pederson, Patrick Henry Middle School, Sioux Falls; Karen Thaler, Mickelson Middle School Brookings; Marissa Kleinhans, Baltic High School, Baltic; and Jesse Sealey, Gayville-Volin Schools, 2007 Turkey Cultural Foundation exchange teacher. |
Four South Dakota school teachers will learn firsthand about the culture of Turkey while traveling July 28-Aug. 6 on a tour sponsored by the Turkish Culture Foundation. The teachers were chosen from applicants attending a one-day workshop about Turkey organized by the South Dakota Council on World Affairs.
The four teachers include Marissa Kleinhans, Baltic High School, Baltic; Karen Thaler, Mickelson Middle School, Brookings; Gary Pederson, Patrick Henry Middle School, Sioux Falls; and Sally Rice, Edison Middle School, Sioux Falls.
They will join educators from six other affiliates of the World Affairs Councils of America from Houston, Kansas City, Moline, Raleigh, N.C., St. Louis, and Washington, D.C. to visit Turkey this summer.
The group will travel throughout Turkey discovering ways to incorporate their experience and knowledge into their classrooms and school curriculums.
Teachers will view Turkish schools, historic relics and cultural traditions in light of their own subject areas.
This is the second year the South Dakota Council on World Affairs has received funding from the Turkish Cultural Foundation to support the teachers? workshop, underwrite travel and provide for post-travel programming.
?These teacher exchanges have long-term effects on both sides of the interchange, from the exponential impact on South Dakota students to the residents of Turkey who interact with South Dakota teachers,? said Harriet Swedlund, executive director of SDCWA.
Workshops attract 4-H youths for leadership camp
SDSU hosted 200 4-H youth for a week of workshops in early June during the annual Teen Leadership Camp.
This year?s theme, chosen and organized by state 4-H officers, was ?Extreme Makeover: TLC Edition.? The camp focused on leadership and career planning.
Campers, from age 10 to 13, took part in a variety of workshops ranging from the serious to silly, such as ?Personality Discovery,? ?Sign Language? and ?Things to do with Duct Tape.?
SDSU faculty and staff took an active role. In the past, departments from nursing, engineering to ag/bio gave time and faculty to teach career workshops. This year, ag communications, music, and communication studies and theatre departments joined the ranks of presenters offering workshops on music education, press writing, and public speaking.
More information can be found at www.4h.sdstate.edu or by calling the SDSU 4-H Extension Office, 688-4167.
Ag Heritage Museum receives publication award
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| ?Peril and Promise? received national recognition by the American Association for State and Local History. |
The Agricultural Heritage Museum received an award from the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) for its publication, ?Peril and Promise: Essays on South Dakota Community.?
The Ag Museum?s book was chosen by the Leadership in History awards committee and will be presented in September at the AASLH annual meeting in Rochester, N.Y.
?The AASLH Leadership in History Awards is the nation?s most prestigious competition for recognition of achievement in state and local history,? said Terry Davis, president and CEO from the organization?s headquarters in Nashville, Tenn.
?We?re thrilled that our first publication received national recognition for a collection that includes writing by so many SDSU scholars,? said Mac Harris, Ag Museum director.
Grad students present green ideas at national conference
Three SDSU graduate students will present information at the 12th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference June 24-26 in Washington, D.C. The forum draws students, professors, and researchers from around the world.
Jeremy Kroon, a second-year graduate student from Rapid City, will present ?Liquid Carbon Dioxide-Based Production of Leather.?
Julee Driver, a fourth-year graduate student from Sioux Falls, will present ?A Green Chemistry Assessment for Analytical and Chemical Processes.?
Lisette Ngo Tenlep is a third-year graduate student from Cameroon. She will present ?Fractionation of Lignocellulosic Biomass Feedstocks.?
The Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference explores how technical advances in green chemistry and engineering contribute to solving some of humanity?s most pressing environmental and health issues.
The conference explores potential ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and nonrenewable fuel sources, ensure safe and adequate food and water supplies, eradicate diseases, and improve environmental decision-making.
?The conference presenters were chosen from a highly competitive pool,? said Douglas Raynie, associate professor of chemistry and advisor to the SDSU student Green Chemistry Group.
?I think it is an honor for our students to be selected,? he continued.
Regular pay for legal holidays
All permanent status employees in state government receive their regular pay for 10 legal holidays plus any other day proclaimed as a holiday by the governor or the president of the United States. The following holidays are recognized by the state of South Dakota:
2007 - July 4, Independence Day; September 1, Labor Day; Oct. 13, Native American Day.
When a holiday falls on a Saturday, the proceeding Friday is observed as the paid holiday for state employees. If a holiday falls on a Sunday, it is observed on the following Monday.
For more information, contact Louise Loban, 688-4128. |
