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Bedard Chosen SD Author of the Year for 2008 by
SD Council of Teachers of English
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SDCTE is a state-wide professional organization of English teachers in K-12 and higher education, and is affiliated with the National Council of Teachers of English. As this year’s honoree, Dr. Brian Bedard, USD English Department, has been asked to address next year’s SDCTE conference. Dr. Bedard’s recent book, Grieving on the Run (Snake Nation Press, 2007), prompted his selection. Grieving on the Run, a collection of short stories, also won a Serena McDonald Kennedy Fiction Award and was nominated for a 2007 National Book
Award.
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Student Employee of Spring 2008
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Erin Schiltz, a student in the Communication Disorders Department at USD, was selected as “Student Employee of the Semester” for Spring 2008 by the Career Development Center. She was nominated by Patsy O’Neal, Senior Secretary in the DCOM Dept., and was chosen based on her work ethic, positive attitude and leadership at USD. An award was presented to Erin on January 23.
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English Ph.D. Student
Has Poems Published
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English Ph.D. student, Sarah Den Boer has had the following poems published: “Lessons from Miguel” in The Pedestal; “Slow Dance” and “The Soldier” in Prick of the Spindle; “Everything She Knows, She Learns from Leonard Cohen” in Siren; “Went to the Gun Range With You” in Blossombones and “Vineyard” forthcoming in The Briar Cliff Review.
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Earth Sciences Professor's Article
Top 100 in Discover Magazine
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In 1996 Earth Sciences Professor Timothy Heaton discovered the oldest human remains ever found in Alaska during a paleontology excavation. He was featured in the December 2000 National Geographic. Last year he was a co-author on a paper detailing the results of a genetic study of the human remains. Now Discover magazine has listed this article as one (#32) of the top 100 science stories for 2007.
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Students Named to Leadership Positions
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Fifteen students from The University of South Dakota’s Department of Contemporary Media & Journalism (CMJ) were named to U News leadership positions for the 2008 spring semester. In addition to producing, writing and directing for U News, students will serve as reporters and hosts for the program, which is broadcast live weekly at 5 p.m. beginning Wednesday, Jan. 30 on Midcontinent Cable (KYOT, channel 21, in Vermillion and many surrounding communities). (Read More)
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English Professor has Poems Published
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Professor Ed Allen, English, has had two poems published in the current issue of RIVER STYX, a literary journal based in St. Louis.
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CMJ Professor Selected to Serve
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Professor Candy Walton, Contemporary Media and Journalism, has been selected from an international pool of candidates to serve as a Faculty Fellow during the National Association of Television Program Executive's international conference in Las Vegas, NV in late January 2008. The NATPE Faculty Fellowship Program provides selected college and university media faculty with complete access to the sessions and activities of the annual NATPE Conference & Exhibition.
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Mathematical Sciences Professor to Delivers Plenary Talk
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Professor José Flores, Mathematical Sciences, delivered a plenary talk at "The 4th WSEAS International Conference on MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY and ECOLOGY (MABE '08) in Acapulco, Mexico, January 2008. The paper is a a joint work with Dr. Rodrigo Ramos-Jiliberto at the University of Chile and Dr. Jaime Mean-Lorca in the Institute of Mathematics at the Catholic University of Valparaiso, Chilie and collaboration of Waldo Morales, student in Environmental Engineering at the University of Valparaiso, Chile.
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Philosophy Professor Invited Conference Speaker
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Professor Keith Robinson, Languages, Linguistics and Philosophy, was an invited speaker at the conference "Event and Decision: Ontology and Politics in Badiou, Deleuze and Whitehead" held at the Claremont Graduate University, CA in December 2007.
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American Indian Studies Professor Delivers Paper
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Professor Elizabeth Castle, American Indian Studies, delivered a paper at the American Society for Ethnohistory entitled "From Braids and Shades to the World Stage: Native North America's Leadership in the Global Indigenous Rights Movement" as part of a panel on "Building Native Nations" in Tulsa, OK in November 2007.
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Languages Professor Has Paper Published
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Professor Susan Wolfe, Languages, Linguistics and Philosophy, has had her paper "Charming the Elders: Girl Power for Second-Wave Feminists" published in Investigating Charmed: The Magic Power of TV, edited by Stan Beeler and Karin Beeler and published in London and New York by I. B. Tauris (2007).
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Mathematical Sciences Professor Invited to Chair Session at Conference
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Professor Yuhlong Lio, Mathematical Sciences, has been invited to chair a session at the 2nd International Conference on Mathematics and Statistics to be held in June 2008 in Athens, Greece.
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CMJ Student Wins First Place
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Contemporary Media and Journalism undergraduate student, Brian Brua was awarded First Place in the Radio division for the Best Technical Production at the 2007 annual conference of the College Media Advisors/College Broadcasters Inc. in October. (Read More)
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ROTC Cadets Earn Top Honor
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This past summer, USD ROTC sent nine cadets to Leader Development and Assessment Course, and six of them received the highest possible rating, an "excellent." Four of the cadets were also ranked as being one of the top five cadets in their platoons. Of all small-to-medium universities in the nation, USD had the highest percentage of cadets receiving these honors. (Read More)
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Earth Sciences Professor
Paper Presentation
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Professor Brennan Jordan, Earth Sciences/geology), presented a paper entitled "Why aren't we doing this? The value of circular polarization in petrography and photomicroscopy" at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Denver, CO in October 2007.
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President's Research Day Awards
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USD honored two of its distinguished faculty recently during the U's annual President's Research Day. Dr. Teri Bellis, Communication Disorders and Dr. Daniel Soluk, Biology received the President's Award for research Excellence for their unique contributions to research at USD. (Read More)
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History Professor Recipient of
Larry Rowen Remele Award
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Dr. Robert C. Hilderbrand, History, was presented with the Larry Rowen Remele Award at the 42nd annual Northern Great Plains History Conference. (Read More)
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Matthew C. Moen Elected
President of National Organization
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Matthew C. Moen, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences was elected president by the membership of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences at the organization's annual meeting in Chicago. (Read More)
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USD History Student Receives
Sovereign Nations Scholarship
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History major, Nicholas Estes has received a Sovereign Nations Scholarship for his senior year at The U. Mr. Estes, a member of the Lower Brule Sioux tribe, plans to pursue his interests in European anarchism and the Spanish Civil War in graduate school.
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Undergraduate USD Students to Participate in Homestake Research
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The recent announcement awarding the proposed Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) to Lead, S.D., figures to have an immense impact on the region and The University of South Dakota. One group of people already positively affected by this news is physics students at USD. These students will have access to one of the finest scientific facilities in the world, a fact that is not lost on junior physics majors Jason Spaans of Larchwood, Iowa, and Keenan Thomas of Rapid City, S.D. (Read More)
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USD Scientists to Contribute to Homestake Research Facility
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The proposed Homestake Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) in Lead, S.D., stands to benefit faculty and students of The University of South Dakota with invaluable research opportunities. Top physicists from all over the world will converge at the laboratory to perform cutting edge experiments while working hand-in-hand with USD representatives. (Read More)
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History Professor Makes Military Presentation
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Professor Kurt Hackemer, History, presented "Guns and Power" at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, SD as a companion lecture to the WWII Navy Art: A Vision of History exhibit that showed for Fall 2007.
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Political Science and Biology Professors have Paper Published
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Professor William D. Anderson, Political Science, and Professor Cliff H. Summers, Biology, had "Neuroendocrine Mechanisms, Stress Coping Strategies, and Social Dominance: Comparative Lessons about Leadership Potential" published in the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, SAGE Publications.
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English Professor has Essay Published
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Professor Emily Haddad's essay "Bound to Love: Captivity in Harlequin Sheikh Novels" appeared in the volume Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels, edited by Sally Goade (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007).
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Mathematical Sciences Professor Makes Presentation at National Conference
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Professor Violeta Vasilevska, Mathematical Sciences, presented "Shape fibrator properties of PI manifolds" at the International Conference "Dubrovnik VI-Geometric Topology at Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 2007.
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Physics Professor Presents Papers
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Professor Dongming Mei, Physics, presented two papers at the American Physics Society-Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting in Virginia Beach. Two undergraduate students accompanied him and presented posters of their research work. Both students received travel grants through competitive Conference Experiences for Undergraduates program of the APS-DNP.
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Charles E. Trimble Presented Award
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Institute of American Indian Studies Director Charles E. "Chuck" Trimble was presented with the 2007 Sower Award by the Nebraska Humanities Council at October festivities at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha. A member of the Oglala Sioux Naiton, Mr. Trimble was recognized for both his national and state leadership and contributions to issues and concerns in Indian Country.
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