The annual South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State University Celebration of Faculty Excellence recognized 30 faculty members, researchers and scientists Tuesday. The event honors faculty members in the university's colleges for outstanding research, teaching and service.
Srinivas Janaswamy, associate professor of food chemistry, has demonstrated how banana peels can be utilized to create biodegradable films — plastic-like material that will decompose in the environment and may one day replace petroleum-based plastic as the dominant food packaging material.
Michael Adelaine, former vice president for technology and safety and professor emeritus of agricultural engineering at South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State University, has been appointed to a third term on a federal task force working to identify the connectivity needs of precision agriculture.
Nearly 70 Sioux Falls high school teachers ventured to South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State University’s campus Feb. 5 for their own day of learning, which included science experiments, compounding prescriptions and other educational opportunities.
South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State University recently received a grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to help preserve and maintain South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã's infrastructure.
Construction may be among humanity's oldest industries, but there are still ways to deliver better, more efficient outcomes. That’s according to Phuong Nguyen, an assistant professor in South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State University's Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering.
Last fall, South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State University's Journal of Undergraduate Research returned to publication for the first time since 2019. The 18th volume features original scholarly research from four different SDSU students or student groups from physics, food science and mechanical engineering.
In South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã, expansive and sulfate-rich soils can cause serious problems for civil infrastructure, like roads and bridges, and agriculture production. In certain climatic conditions, these expansive — or "problematic" — soils will crack and swell. A new National Science Foundation-backed project from South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State University will explore if biofilms made from dental plaque can help improve the stability of problematic soils.
Saikat Basu, assistant professor in South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State University's Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering, traveled to the 76th annual American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting in Washington, D.C., this past November. A group of graduate assistants who conduct research in his lab — the Basu Lab — accompanied him on the trip.
