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Ideation to Commercialization – Entrepreneur Coaching Now Available in Brookings
BEDC partnering with SDSU to identify the business value of new innovations Many new ideas and innovations have great potential, but how do people determine the real world impact their ideas could have? Entrepreneurs in Brookings now have a resource for helping them discover the business value of their ideas. Jennifer Quail, Director of Entrepreneur…
Read MoreBoston Brass, organist to perform in Performing Arts Center’s New Recital Hall
The inaugural public concerts in the Performing Arts Center’s new Recital Hall will be held Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 10 at 2:30 p.m. The concerts feature the Boston Brass with organist Gregory Hand. Tickets are $20 and are available by calling South Dakota State University’s School of Performing Arts at (605) 688-5187 or…
Read MoreSDSU Group Receives Community Innovation Grant for Prototype Development
Courtesy of the South Dakota Community Foundation The South Dakota Community Foundation recently presented a $10,000 Community Innovation Grant to South Dakota State University. Offered in partnership with the Bush Foundation, the CIG program supports efforts to find breakthrough solutions to community challenges across the state. The grant will provide partial support for the Rich…
Read MoreEntrepreneurs begin grappling with new patent priority
Should an entrepreneur protect an invention with a patent sooner rather than later? That’s the question that confronts innovators struggling to determine how recent patent law changes will impact their businesses. The America Invents Act, which went into effect in 2013, replaces a system that recognizes the first to invent with one that gives priority…
Read MoreSD Governor’s 8th Biennial Art Exhibition opens at South Dakota Art Museum
The South Dakota Art Museum hosts the South Dakota Governor’s 8th Biennial Art Exhibition, featuring works from 64 South Dakota artists, Jan. 25 to April 20. The showing, the first of four statewide, represents all regions of the state and a wide variety of art forms. The museum will host a free opening reception from…
Read MoreSDSU Gets New High-Performance Computer Cluster For Analyzing Genomic Data
When Xijin Ge learned South Dakota State University was not only going to add a high-performance computing cluster and a 100-gigabyte internet connection, he was excited. “I was like a kid in a candy store, just so excited about the speed in which I was going to be able to download and analyze genomic data,”…
Read MoreFishback Family offers $3.5 million challenge to support Fishback Honors College at SDSU
Van D. and Barbara B. Fishback, longtime benefactors of South Dakota State University and namesakes of the university’s Honors College, made public Monday a $3.5 million challenge match. It is the single-largest challenge match ever issued at SDSU. When achieved, the Van D. and Barbara B. Fishback Honors College would have $7 million in new…
Read MoreSecurity Operations Center launched at SDSU
Facing approximately 20 million cyberattacks each day, South Dakota State University’s Division of Technology and Security and other South Dakota Board of Regents institutions are under constant stress. That cyberattack total does not include spam or phishing emails, which exceeded 1.4 million in the first nine days of 2019. As a result, the South Dakota…
Read MoreResearch fellowship helps microbiology student find career path
A summer undergraduate research fellowship has helped South Dakota State University sophomore Caroline Kincade figure out her career path. Through the Future Agriculture and Science Taskforce Research and Extension Experiences for Undergraduates (FAST REEU) fellowship program, Kincade worked on a project to understand how cells gain resistance to antibiotics under the supervision of Assistant Professor…
Read MoreSDSU to participate in Every Acre Counts
The South Dakota Habitat Conservation Foundation alongside South Dakota State University and The USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service announced a new project. Every Acre Counts is designed to give agricultural producers new ways to manage low producing acres while increasing their bottom line. “Ag producers in South Dakota care about the land and we realize…
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