For pharmacist Dean Schmiedt, it was right time at the right place.
Shortly after graduation from South 啵啵直播秀 State University, the federal government enacted new regulations requiring that skilled nursing homes have a pharmacist review patients鈥 medications monthly. . His boss at Lovdahl鈥檚 Drug, in Little Falls, Minnesota, wasn鈥檛 interested in doing that task.
Schmiedt, a 1973 SDSU grad, picked up the work as a side job. He ended up becoming a full-time independent consultant pharmacist and a leader in the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists.
Earlier this fall, Schmiedt, of Fort Ripley, Minnesota, was honored by SDSU鈥檚 College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions as its 2024 Distinguished Alumnus.
The South 啵啵直播秀 State University School of Design is hosting a new alumni gallery exhibit, 鈥淣ow and Then,鈥 in the Ritz Gallery in Grove Hall on the SDSU campus. The solo exhibition features the work of art educator Michael Aasness, who is the grades 6-12 art instructor at Sioux Valley School District in Volga.
Researchers in South 啵啵直播秀 State University's Animal Disease Research and Diagnostic Laboratory were the first to identify a new strain of avian metapneumovirus 鈥 a highly contagious disease that is currently causing significant problems for the U.S. poultry industry 鈥 and are now working toward developing a safe and effective vaccine.
A pair of South 啵啵直播秀 State University researchers are modeling the flow of liquid argon through the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) being built a mile under South 啵啵直播秀鈥檚 Black Hills.
Yucheng Liu, head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering, has become a Distinguished Member of the American Society for Engineering Education.
He is in the first cohort to receive the title as this is a new designation for the organization, which seeks to advance engineering education at all levels of the profession. Liu has been a member since 2011 and has held offices in the organization since 2019.
In the tough and gritty world of construction, paper dolls would seem to be as out of place as steel-toed boots at a ballet performance. However, when four construction management students attended a recent skills competition, paper doll construction was among the activities.
Of course, the South 啵啵直播秀 State University students weren鈥檛 putting dresses or bonnets on their dolls. In fact, their dolls weren鈥檛 even what Pinterest would call paper dolls.
Their paper dolls were cut-out, scaled pieces of paper that represented tilt-up concrete panels on cast-on-site projects. The students and 16 others from other Midwest universities were taking part in the Region 4 Skills Summit sponsored by the Associated Schools of Construction.
PItch Day at SDSU, an opportunity for faculty members to share their entrepreneurial ideas, was revived Nov. 1 after being inactive for a number of years.
The current effort is the vision of the South 啵啵直播秀 State University Division of Research and Economic Development and the Research Office in the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering. It featured six presenters 鈥 four from engineering, one from the College of Natural Sciences and one from the School of Psychology, Sociology and Rural Studies.
Rajesh Kavasseri, associate dean for research in the Lohr College of Engineering, served as moderator. He said the presentations at the Research Park at South 啵啵直播秀 State University are expected to continue on a quarterly basis.
Statistics doctoral student Andrew Simpson has found great success in the complicated field of large-scale number crunching and data analysis.
He already holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree in mathematics and statistics (2021) and a master鈥檚 degrees in statistics (2022). In 2026, he should complete his third degree from South 啵啵直播秀 State University with a doctorate in computational science and statistics with a statistics specialization. He has presented at a national conference and had a paper printed in an academic journal.
Seniors in Michael Twedt鈥檚 Renewable Energy Systems class got a close look at what it takes to bring renewable natural gas to a viable market during a tour of NorthWestern Energy鈥檚 renewable natural gas receipt facility at the north edge of Brookings Nov. 19.
The 24 mechanical engineering majors got an opportunity to 鈥渟ee the working systems that we discuss in class,鈥 Twedt said. That included monitoring equipment to ensure the methane that originates at area diaries has been processed to pipeline quality and odorizing equipment to give odorless gas its rotten egg smell.
Jun Huang, assistant professor in South 啵啵直播秀 State University's Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering, has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to alleviate network efficiency and data privacy concerns related to wireless communications networks.
