10 years, 10 milestones — How the college has developed since Oct. 4, 2013
Ten years ago this fall, the College of Engineering became the Jerome J.
SDSU professor receives DOJ grant to help improve forensic science outcomes
Christopher Saunders, a professor of statistics at South Dakota State University, will serve as principal investigator on a project funded with a $612,286 grant from the United States Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice.
Larson becomes first to hold Kemp endowment at SDSU
Christine Larson has been named as the inaugural holder of the Kemp Endowed Professorship in Honors Mathematics at South Dakota State University.
Retired SDSU employees provide funding for 50th, 51st endowed leadership positions
Two couples with more than a century of combined service to South Dakota State University have made financial commitments to push the university’s Bold & Blue comprehensive campaign past an important milestone. University and campaign officials established a goal to have commitments for 50 endowed positions by the end of Bold & Blue. At the campaign’s start in 2017, there were 13. That number has now grown to 51.
Faculty Research Spotlight: Michael Puthawala
Last semester, Michael Puthawala made the 8,000-mile journey to Kigali, Rwanda, for the 11th annual International Conference on Learning Representations. Puthawala, a South Dakota State University assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the CAPITAL Services scholar in artificial intelligence and machine learning, is a relatively new faculty member at SDSU but is already making significant contributions to his academic area of expertise: machine learning.
SDSU prof to study palliative care, end-stage renal disease
Brandon Varilek, assistant professor in South Dakota State University’s College of Nursing, has received a grant to study palliative care use, kidney transplant rates, and explore survival statistics among American Indians with end-stage renal disease caused by diabetes.
Research spotlight: Semhar Michael, Statistician focuses on health data
Semhar Michael, an associate professor of statistics in South Dakota State University’s Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering, has used her knowledge of numbers to research breast cancer rates in South Dakota.