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July 7, 2008

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400,000th Prairie Rep patron rewarded at Friday's show

PRT
The Prairie Village Opera House outside Madison was home to the first Prairie Repertory Theatre company when it began in 1971. PRT actors played to full crowds in the un-air conditioned Prairie Village Opera House throughout the troupe's first summers.

Prairie Repertory Theatre will celebrate its 400,000th patron during the July 11 performance of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" in Doner Auditorium.

The first PRT company opened 38 years ago to a small audience of theatre aficionados sitting on plank benches and cinderblocks in the un-airconditioned Prairie Village Opera House in Madison.

This summer, 163 shows, 1,213 performances and 1,273 students later, PRT will offer a full scale production of the musical "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" to its 400,000th patron.

In honor of the momentous occasion, PRT will have a special ceremony to honor past and present patrons.

To recognize the landmark number, PRT will present the 400,000th patron with 10, free season books to PRT performances in Brandon and an $80 bouquet donated by Lori Olson of Main Street Florist in Hendricks, Minn.

"Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" plays in Doner Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. from July 9-12. A Sunday matinee begins at 2 p.m., July 13.

Theatre goers interested in becoming PRT's 400,000th patron can purchase a ticket by contacting the Audience Services Office at 688-6045, visiting the website at www.prairierep.org or stopping by the Performing Arts Center box office on campus, Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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.

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 p.m.

Move Over, Mrs. Markham

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 p.m.

Brandon: July 31-Aug. 2, Brandon Valley Performing Arts Center, 7:30 p.m.; matinee, Aug. 3, 2 p.m.

Honor Choir 35th reunion seeks former singers

Choir
The 2007 South Dakota Honor Choir sang in the Performing Arts Center at South Dakota State University.

Associate Professor Laura Diddle-Hildebrant is calling South Dakota Honor Choir alumni to sing at the Sioux Falls Washington Pavilion for an Honor Choir reunion concert Aug. 1.

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the South Dakota High School Honor Choir. To mark the milestone, a Reunion Choir is being organized.

"This is a magnificent opportunity for singers, friends and vocal music educators to come together to celebrate 35 years of choral music excellence here in South Dakota," said Diddle-Hildebrant who is president of the South Dakota American Choral Directors Association.

"I hope all Honor Choir alumni and choral musicians take this opportunity to make music together, renew old friendships and forge new ground for future South Dakota choral musicians."

The Reunion Choir will rehearse at Augustana College in Sioux Falls July 30 - 31 to perform a concert Aug. 1 at 7:30 p.m. Tim Peter of Luther College in Decorah, Iowa will be the guest conductor.

Interested alumni can register for the Reunion Choir through the SD Honor Choir website at http://sd-acda.sdsmt.edu/SHChoir/index.htmClick to view SDSU's Hyperlink Policy.

The Reunion Choir will perform four independent selections and join the 2008 High School Honor Choir for two additional pieces.

All former SD Honor Choir members from 1974 - 2007 are encouraged to participate.

Further information and registration forms are available on the Honor Choir website, or by contacting Stacy Gross at 605-361-6148 or stacygross@sio.midco.net.


Vacationers can plan a "staycation" with SDSU campus sites

Art Museum and Ag Museum
SDSU facilities offer knowledge and enjoyment for summer "staycations."

A CNN-dubbed "staycation" offers alternatives for those who want to relax and enjoy a summer holiday without the stress of planning, packing and travel expenses. SDSU campus attractions make staycations easy and memorable.

At the South Dakota Art Museum, Director Lynn Verschoor said everyone can take away something from the variety of exhibits rooted in South Dakota.

"There is a lot to learn about the people of South Dakota through their art and how South Dakota looks through their eyes," she observed.

Verschoor spoke of all the exhibitions with equal enthusiasm, including two new Harvey Dunn paintings recently added to the museum's collection.

"We are very fortunate to receive this wonderful new painting of Dunn's mother Bersha as a gift from Deborah Wessells, Dunn's granddaughter," she said. "We are also thankful to the Ella Ollenberg estate for the opportunity to purchase a powerful WWI painting from the Red Cross."

Continuing exhibitions by South Dakota artists features oil painter Dorothy Morgan's landscapes of the Brookings area.

The museum has an extensive collection of Native American photographs and tribal art, a display on the people behind the creation of internationally sold Marghab Linens and the traveling Governor's biennial art exhibition featuring contemporary South Dakota artists.

A museum store contains merchandise matching the diverse collections ranging from locally made jewelry and pottery to international wares of Indonesian masks and African sculpture.

The Dairy Bar produces famous SDSU ice cream, milk, cheese and butter made with milk and cream from SDSU dairy cows.

One of the only student-run dairy processing facilities in the nation, the Dairy Bar started in 1927 to keep the dairy-processing center not only educational, but also self-sustaining. Today they produce more than 60 flavors of ice cream with 16 choices always on hand to buy cones or dishes for eating on site or containers to take home.

The Agricultural Heritage Museum offers a plethora of history about farm life across South Dakota. Museum exhibitions examine human experiences, institutions and cultures that were shaped by the state's rural landscape and diverse environment.

The museum also organizes programs to enhance exhibits with book signings and workshops. The annual Brookings Radio Grill-Out will be at the museum July 17. A gift shop offers a variety of merchandise and books on South Dakota, its regional agriculture history and influence on community life.

Equipment, appliances to have ENERGY STAR designation

In an effort to promote sustainability and energy conservation, SDSU requires that all on-campus equipment and appliances purchased have the ENERGY STAR designation.

Almost all appliances today are available with this label. This includes refrigerators, microwaves, washers, dryers and computers. When purchasing any electronic device, be sure it has the ENERGY STAR rating.

ENERGY STAR is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy helping to save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices. Items that have this designation mean they meet strict energy efficiency guidelines set by the EPA and US Department of Energy.

For more information, contact Facilities and Services, 688-4136.

French graduate students learn from professors, projects

Twelve French agriculture and engineering students from the École Nationale Superiere Agriculture-Toulouse (ENSAT) in Toulouse, France, are part of a summer internship program at SDSU. 

The student interns are in their second year of study at French national specialty schools, which is equivalent to a first-year, U.S. master?s degree student. Sociology professor Meredith Redlin, directs the exchange program.

The French students work for 12 weeks over the summer with SDSU faculty in animal sciences, plant sciences, pharmacy, engineering, economics, dairy science and the Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence (GIScCE).

Sociology professor Meredith Redlin directs the exchange program.
  
Claire Gasnier, an agromanagement specialist, an area of study similar to agriculture economics, is working with Professor Gerald Warmann, SDSU economics extension specialist.
  
Warmann and Gasnier are working with South Dakota farmers? market producers to estimate cost and quality differences and encourage local producers to be more analytical. 

Gasnier plans to compare how French markets advertise and function with farmers at local farmers' markets. She intends to examine advertising and sales techniques for local markets? fresh produce and work with media and local producers in South Dakota to promote the markets.

Chandradhar Dwivedi, head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, advises two French students. His students will aid SDSU pharmacy faculty members with their current research.

French Students
French graduate students and their department of study include, front row, from left, Ludivine Legay, GIScCE; Julie Darly, Nutrition, Food Science & Hospitality; Jerome Grimplet, Agricultural and Biological Sciences; and Julie Munsch, Animal and Range Sciences. Middle row, from left, Paul Renaud-Goud, Electrical Engineering; Claire Forgacz, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering; Daimien Donner, GIScCE; Claire Gasnier, Economics; Mathieu Eberhardt, GIScCE; Alexis Annes, Modern Languages and Sociology; and Nicholas Maziere, Plant Science. Back row, from left, David Horeau, Pharmacy and Olivier Nave, Plant Science. Not pictured, but also French students studying at SDSU this summer, include David Horeau, Pharmacy; Pauline Robin, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering; and Audrey Laurens, Pharmacy.

Painting begins on lines, curbs in parking lots

The annual painting of lines and curbs on campus parking lots has begun. Throughout the next few weeks, employees may arrive to work and find the parking lot by their building blocked. Please park in an alternate lot; do not park in reserved or handicap parking spaces or by a yellow curb.

Tentative schedule (to be updated weekly) follows:
 ? July 7:  north NFA, Seed House (all), west ADR.
? July 8:  south NFA, east ADR, east Larson Commons (loop).
? July 9:  all Admin Lane, south SOH, north CEH, east AGH by building.
? July 10:  far east AGH, west EAM, any areas not done yet.
? July 11:  any areas not done yet, crosswalks.

For concerns or questions, call Facilities and Services, 688-4136.


SDSU offers master's degree in chemistry education

SDSU recently implemented a non-thesis option for its Master of Science degree in chemical science education in order to help strengthen the content knowledge of regional high school teachers.

The chemical education specialization curriculum mirrors the thesis-based Master of Science degree, but is delivered almost entirely via an Internet instruction model, said Professor James Rice, head of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

The Internet option accommodates current teachers around the state who are unable to leave their classrooms for two years to earn their master's.

Chemistry Assistant Professor Matthew Miller spearheaded the project. He proposed the new specialization because of South Dakota's ongoing goal to become more involved in scientific research.

According to Miller, high school teachers pursuing the chemical education master of science will take 32 graduate level courses developed to match high school, advanced placement curriculum concepts.

Education-based courses encourage communication among the degree-seekers. Current high school teachers will discuss and practice alternative teaching strategies in chemistry as well as conduct a problems-based, classroom application.

While the majority of the courses will be taught online, the final six laboratory development credits will be shared between two, laboratory development courses taught at SDSU over two consecutive summers.

During these summer sessions, participants will work with SDSU chemistry and biochemistry faculty to develop laboratory activities for their classrooms.

SDSU's ultimate goal for the new education specialization is to offer current chemistry teachers the chance to bolster their knowledge at the graduate level, to offer a degree that is in line with high school chemistry's content, to prepare better students by strengthening their science knowledge foundation, and to help create a greater scientific workforce for South Dakota.


Accreditation for clinical lab science/medical tech program

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 grants 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.


Regents give approval to prepare 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/DUSEL 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 regental 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.


Children's PRT theatre workshops to be held in Brandon

SDSU Prairie Repertory Theatre will host a Children?s Theatre Workshop July 28-Aug. 2 at the Brandon Performing Arts Center in Brandon. Three workshops will be offered, each for a different age group.

Workshop one, "Acting Out," is for students having completed second or third grade. It will run from 9 to 11 a.m. each day with a final performance at 10:30 a.m. Aug. 2. The workshop offers an overview of theatre skills, like staging, movement, stage presence and voice projection.

Workshop Two, "Play It Like It Is," is for students who have completed fourth or fifth grade. It will run from noon to 2:30 p.m. with a final performance at 2 p.m. Aug. 2. The workshop focuses not only on acting technique and stage movement, but also brings insight into preliminary scene work and technical theatre aspects.

The final workshop, "Song & Dance for the Musical Theatre," is for students who have completed grades six, seven or eight. It will run from 2:30 to 5 p.m. with a final performance at 4:30 p.m. Aug. 2. Students will learn about different styles of musical theatre. The focus will be on choreography, rhythm, vocal projection and pitch, and overall stage presence.

Each participant will receive a free ticket with an adult purchase to the family musical "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," to be performed by PRT at the Brandon Performing Arts Center Aug. 3 a 2 p.m.

The cost of the workshop is $55 per participant. Class sizes are limited and registration is based on a first come, first served basis.

For more information, contact Jacqueline Pierce-Humke, 688-6131 or jacq_humke@hotmail.com.


Regular pay for legal holiday

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:

2008 - Sept. 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.


South Dakota State University's Calendar of Events
 
July 2008
9-11 University Week for Women. Contact: Lanida Czekus - 688-6988.
9-12 Prairie Repertory Theatre Presents: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Doner Auditorium, 7:30pm. Contact: Aaron Morford - 688-6131.
13 Prairie Repertory Theatre Presents: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Doner Auditorium, 2:00pm. Contact: Aaron Morford - 688-6131.
16-18 Prairie Repertory Theatre Presents: Move Over, Mrs. Markham, Brandon Valley Performing Arts Center, 7:30pm. Contact: Aaron Morford - 688-6131.
17 Brookings Radio Community Grill-Out, east lawn of the SD Ag Heritage Museum, 11:00am - 1:00pm. Contact: Carrie Van Buren - 688-4436.
19 Prairie Repertory Theatre Presents: Bingo, Brandon Valley Performing Arts Center, 7:30pm. Contact: Aaron Morford - 688-6131.
20 Prairie Repertory Theatre Presents: Bingo, Brandon Valley Performing Arts Center, 2:00pm. Contact: Aaron Morford - 688-6131.
22 SDAM Exhibit: Liz Bashore and Bruce Preheim (runs through November 23), artists' reception: September 19, 4:30-7:00pm (presentation: 5:30pm). Contact Dianne Hawks - 688-4313.
23-24 Prairie Repertory Theatre Presents: Bingo, Doner Auditorium, 7:30pm. Contact: Aaron Morford - 688-6131.
25-26 Prairie Repertory Theatre Presents: Escanaba In Love, Brandon Valley Performing Arts Center, 7:30pm. Contact: Aaron Morford - 688-6131.
27 Prairie Repertory Theatre Presents: Escanaba In Love, Brandon Valley Performing Arts Center, 2:00pm. Contact: Aaron Morford - 688-6131.
31 Prairie Repertory Theatre Presents: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (runs through August 2), Brandon Valley Performing Arts Center, 7:30pm. Contact: Aaron Morford - 688-6131.
 
August 2008
3 Prairie Repertory Theatre Presents: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Brandon Valley Performing Arts Center, 2:00pm. Contact: Aaron Morford - 688-6131.
8-9 SDAM Workshop: Soap Making by Norma Nusz-Chandler, Museum Patio, 12:00-4:00pm. Contact: Dianne Hawks - 688-4313.
13 Career Service Summer Meeting, VBR, 3:00-4:00pm. Contact: Mary Kidwiler - 688-5133.
15 McCrory Gardens Annual Garden Party: guided tours all afternoon; SDSU ice cream served beginning at 6:00pm until dusk. Contact: Jeanne Lush - 688-5136.
26 SDAM SD Artist Series: Stephen Knapp: The Art of Illumination (runs through November 30). Contact Dianne Hawks - 688-4313.
 
 
This calendar is prepared by the University Relations Office. For more information, to have campus events included in the next calendar, or to make address corrections, please contact April Clarin at University Relations, SCM 105, Box 2230, (605) 688-6161, or by email at april.clarin@sdstate.edu. Thank you.

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Technology transfer office acquires experienced leader

SDSU has named Denichiro Otsuga as the university's first director of Technology Transfer, according to Kevin Kephart, vice president for research.

"SDSU offered a once in a lifetime opportunity for me to build a technology transfer office from the ground up," said Otsuga.

Otsuga comes from a major, California-based, energy crop development company. Prior to that, he worked with the technology transfer office at the University of Utah, where he received his Ph.D. in developmental plant molecular genetics.

Otsuga worked closely with the research and development group in the California-based bioenergy firm, where he often identified licensing and collaboration opportunities as a manager of technology acquisition and licensing.

Otsuga was a licensing manager for the Technology Transfer office at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, where he worked closely with inventors to evaluate, protect and market intellectual properties.

 "President Chicoine knows about the importance of technology transfer for local and statewide economic development having directed that process at the University of Illinois, and so being in a position to implement local economic development in South Dakota is something I'm very excited to do," Otsuga concluded.

"Dr. Otsuga brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to SDSU that will help us move more quickly to becoming the premier research institution that we've always been capable of," said President David L. Chicoine.

Otsuga
Denichiro Otsuga

SDSU hosts annual meeting of mammalogists

More than 340 people attended the 88th annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists at SDSU June 21-25. The meeting was organized by Jon Jenks, distinguished professor of wildlife and fisheries sciences, and Scott Pedersen, associate professor of biology and microbiology.

SDSU faculty, current and past students involved in presentations included Jenks, Pedersen, Chris Jacques, Dorothy Fecske, Dan Thompson, Mike Oehler, Jaret Sievers, Josh Smith, Bob Klaver, Shaun Grassel, Greg Schroeder, Troy Grovenburg, Teresa Zimmerman, Al Branum, and Valerian Three Irons.


Unique satellite mapping shows diminishing tropical forests

The Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence (GIScCE) released research data gathered through innovative satellite mapping and sampling to give precise estimates of tropical forest clearing.

The original sampling technique was developed by a group of researchers at the GIScCE led by Matthew Hansen, director and senior research scientist. 

Although the approach is novel, Hansen said it builds upon past research history of land cover monitoring and sampling. 

The new method uses one type of remote sensing data to objectively stratify land surfaces for sampling and a second variety to analyze the samples for estimating forest cover and change over time, explained Hansen. 

Collected information comes from low-and-high spatial resolution satellite datasets, measuring where and how quickly tropical rainforests disappear. The method enables marking the quantity of forest cover and change across the tropics.

"The new approach suggests that more than 27 million hectares of forest area were cleared between 2000 and 2005," said Hansen. 

The new sampling technique shows where and how widely spread the forest loss has become.  

Researchers say the technique is important because it can repeatedly measure large regions efficiently and supply a consistent measure to estimate global trends in forest loss and gain. 

The new method was developed at South Dakota State University in collaboration with researchers at the United States Geological Survey's National Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS), the State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry and the University of Maryland.

Publications all over the world in dozens of different languages have published the story.

Hansen
Matthew Hansen

Ag Museum's collection of essays wins national award

The South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum received an Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) for the publication of "Peril and Promise: Essays on Community in South Dakota and Beyond."
           
"Peril and Promise" features writing by a dozen scholars associated with SDSU on what makes community in the state.

The essays discuss aspects of community from the perspective of scholars and professors in a variety of academic disciplines, ranging from English, history and sociology to political science, biology and education.

The book is available at the Ag Museum, Brookings Book Co., Cover To Cover Bookstore in downtown Brookings, Zandbroz Variety in Sioux Falls, and Codington County Heritage Museum in Watertown.

Awards for 2008 were given to 57 organizations and individuals across the United States.

The AASLH awards program was initiated in 1945 to establish and encourage standards of excellence in the collection, preservation and interpretation of state and local history throughout the United States.

The Ag Museum's publication will be recognized in September at an awards banquet in Rochester, N.Y., during the AASLH annual meeting.

Peril
SDSU authors, editors, and publishers of "Peril and Promise" include (back row from left) John Miller, Nels Granholm; (middle) Chuck Woodard, Mary Haug, MaryJo Benton Lee, Del Lonowski; (front) Larry Rogers, Ruby Wilson, Ruth Harper, and Darla Bielfeldt. The collection includes seven other writers.

SA Vice President selected for international diplomacy conference

Eric Hanson, a senior at South Dakota State University will represent South Dakota at a conference in Kentucky on international diplomacy July 19-26.

Sen. Tim Johnson appointed Hanson, a double major in political science and economics.

Hanson is a delegate in the student congress that will study debate and compromise at the Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship in Lexington.

Hanson is Student Association vice president and was recommended for the appointment by Bob Burns, the recently retired political science professor.

The student congress is an annual undergraduate short course, which exposes a top college junior from every state to a curriculum in diplomacy, dialogue, listening skills, negotiation and mediation.

Hanson
Eric Hanson

South Dakota teachers learn ways to engage students in math and science

"Math on the Move," a workshop for middle and high school teachers, was held at SDSU June 15-19.

The workshop, designed to help math and science teachers work together, helped teachers find ways to teach algebra concepts to their students with hands-on science projects.

Sharon Vestal, mathematics assistant professor and workshop coordinator, said the workshop gave teachers tools to answer the perennial student question, "When am I ever going to use this?"

Math on the Move is modeled after Science on the Move, a statewide project that uses existing South Dakota Mobile Science Labs (MSL) to take science to remote schools in South Dakota.

Activities were based on algebraic concepts to discover answers through physical lab activities like bouncing a ball, recording the bounces as parabolas and figuring equations for them.

The MSL features Vernier lab equipment, a brand that manufactures high tech materials for hands-on, science education in the classroom or field.

Teachers received Vernier equipment, software and the textbook "Real-world Math with Computers" at the workshop. Activities showed teachers how to use the Vernier technology, because MSL's travel around the state and aren't always available.

Instructors for the workshop included SDSU faculty members Christine Larson, mathematics professor; Judy Vondruska, physics instructor; and Jerry Opbroek and Bob Vanderlinde, MSL driver/instructors.

Math on the move
Math on the Move teachers use equipment in a mobile lab inside a semi-trailer.

Science teachers learn to use mobile lab with high-tech equipment

Science teachers from around the state gathered at South Dakota State University June 23-27 for a workshop called "Science on the Move."

The sessions featured Mobile Science Labs (MSL) made of 53-foot semi-trailers that travel around the state during the school year providing classroom teachers high-tech equipment and experiments to stimulate student interest in science.

The Science on the Move program began in 2003 when mobile labs started taking sophisticated equipment and teaching to schools via two trailers loaded with computers, oil-immersion microscopes, GPS units, spectrophotometers, radiation monitors and a host of other scientific equipment.

Over 400 teachers have participated in summer training since the program began 5 years ago.

The MSL's facilitate several workshops at SDSU and Black Hills State University throughout the summer.

The South Dakota legislature provides funding to take the mobile labs to schools around the state once one of their teachers has completed summer training.

During the 2007-08 school year, the mobile science labs traveled to 100 schools in the state taking science education to thousands of students.

More South Dakota schools and students will make use of the unique science equipment during the 2008-09 school year.

SDSU physics instructor Judy Vondruska coordinated the workshop.

Science on the move
A Science on the Move mobile lab sat in the parking lot east of Harding Hall for two weeks in June.

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"Newsline" will print every other week during the summer. The next issue will come out July 21.

To publicize an event or congratulations on "Newsline," please submit information by the preceding Thursday at 2 p.m. to Kyle Johnson, kyle.johnson@sdstate.edu or Jeanne Jones Manzer, jeanne.jonesmanzer@sdstate.edu.


Position Announcements

The Board of Regents has implemented PeopleAdmin for SDSU and all institutions within the BOR system. Vacancies are posted on the shared, Online Employment System. Applications are accepted electronically. For more information regarding current SDSU job postings and the on-line employment process, visit http://yourfuture.sdbor.eduClick to view SDSU's Hyperlink Policy.

FACULTY/EXEMPT 

INSTRUCTOR - COLLEGE OF NURSING. Deadline: July 7.

PROGRAM ADVISOR FOR UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS - STUDENT UNION. Deadline: July 7.

HORTICULTURE EDUCATOR, PENNINGTON COUNTY - COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE. Deadline: July 7.

INTEGRATED SYSTEMS LIBRARIAN - BRIGGS LIBRARY. Deadline: July 7.

FINANCIAL AID COUNSELOR - FINANCIAL AID OFFICE. Deadline: July 10.

INSTRUCTOR/ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN EXERCISE SCIENCE/HEALTH PROMOTION ? HPER. Deadline: July 11.

FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES EXTENSION EDUCATOR - CHARLES MIX COUNTY - COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE. Deadline: July 11.

ACCOUNTING ANALYST - FINANCE & BUSINESS. Deadline: July 13.

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE I - PLANT SCIENCE. Deadline: July 15.

PROFESSIONAL POOL: INSTRUCTORS - DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS. Deadline: July 15.

DIRECTOR OF RESIDENTIAL LIFE. Deadline: July 20.

ADMISSIONS COUNSELOR  - ADMISSIONS. Deadline: July 23.

MINORITY STUDENT RECRUITER - ADMISSIONS. Deadline: July 23.

COMMUNITY INNOVATION/LEADERSHIP EXTENSION EDUCATOR - SHANNON COUNTY- COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE. Deadline: July 25.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR/SEPARATION ENGINEER - AG & BIOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING. Deadline: July 30.

DEAN - COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. Deadline: August 1.

DEPARTMENT HEAD - ANIMAL AND RANGE SCIENCES. Deadline: August 15.

ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR - NUTRITION, FOOD SCIENCE AND HOSPITALITY. Deadline: August 15.

RESEARCH COORDINATOR - ETHEL AUSTIN MARTIN PROGRAM IN HUMAN NUTRITION. Deadline: Open until filled.


CAREER SERVICE

SENIOR BUILDING MAINTENANCE WORKER - UNIVERSITY HOUSING. Deadline: July 7.

CASHIER - CASHIER-S OFFICE. Deadline: July 8.

SENIOR SECRETARY - COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE/4-H. Deadline: July 8.

BUILDING MAINTENANCE WORKER - INTRAMURALS & CLUB SPORTS. Deadline: July 14.

ACCOUNTANT - GRANTS ADMINISTRATION. Deadline: July 15.

ADMINISTRATIVE & GRANTS ASSISTANT - COLLEGE OF FAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCES. Deadline: July 16.

HEATING PLANT TECHNICIAN - FACILITIES & SERVICES. Deadline: July 21.

FACILITY WORKER (part-time) - STUDENT UNION & ACTIVITIES. Deadline: Open until filled.

FACILITY WORKER - UNIVERSITY HOUSING. Deadline: Open until filled.


 
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