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You searched: Through a nearly $100,000 grant, the National Science Foundation has positioned South Dakota State University to help improve the nation's research enterprise. One of the NSF’s primary goals is to increase the United States' ability to conduct high-quality, impactful research.
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.
What should be done about old, abandoned and decaying buildings? That's the question faculty members and students in South Dakota State University's School of Design set out to answer.
Jennifer Zavaleta Cheek, an assistant professor in the Department of Natural Resource Management, worked with research teams to collect diet data from women in two rural districts in eastern India to determine the contributions wild foods had on their diets.
Over the past two decades, the United States has been importing more and more avocados each year, underlining a growing obsession with the nutrient-dense fruit. Simultaneously, the U.S. and the rest of the world have been dealing with a growing environmental crisis spurred on by an overreliance on plastic. Could avocados — specifically avocado peels — provide a potential solution?
Worldwide, farmers are being challenged with a variety of issues, including growing populations, a changing climate and soil degradation, among many others. To combat these challenges, researchers are looking for solutions and have begun to focus their work on the viability of sustainable agriculture practices, like cover crops.
An alternative to plastic. Srinivas Janaswamy, an associate professor in South Dakota State University's Department of Dairy and Food Science, is exploring possible biodegradable packaging alternatives to plastic
Artificial intelligence tools can be found in nearly every sector of society and are quickly becoming this century's great technological advancement. In the agriculture sector, large-scale farming operations are utilizing AI to increase profitability, reduce environmental impacts and promote sustainable practices.
Nicholas Butzin, assistant professor in South Dakota State University's Department of Biology and Microbiology, has been awarded a five-year, $1.3 million grant through the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development Program.
In the late 1990s, the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe reintroduced approximately 35 river otters into the Big Sioux River. Otters, which at one time could be found throughout the Upper Midwest, had become nearly extinct in South Dakota due to habitat loss, pollution and unregulated harvest. Following a successful reintroduction, the otters began to repopulate the rivers of eastern South Dakota.
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