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- Two regular faculty members at BHSU have 25% release time to
do research.
- One adjunct faculty member at BHSU has 50% salary to do research
and to coordinate BRIN activities.
- Mass spectrometer purchased for BHSU.
- Undergraduate students involved in research with stipends and
lab support at both BHSU and Augustana.
- Undergraduate students exposed to career opportunities at USDSM.
- Internet capabilities will be enhanced at Augustana and SWCC.
- Library databases and document delivery is enhanced at USD
and library resources provided free to everyone at partner institutions.
- Polycom units will be purchased for priority of BRIN activities.
- New bioinformatics task force at USD has biomedical scientists
and computer scientists working together.
- Proteomics core facility is being equipped and staffed at USDSM.
- Web resources for outreach in the sciences have been expanded
and consolidated.
- Research faculty members at participating institutions are
beginning to get to know each other.
- Graduate student stipends are available.
- New faculty members are being recruited and supported with
start-up and annual funds for a number of years.
- NCBI workshop on bioinformatics will be supported by SD BRIN.
- Undergraduate training of science education majors will be
enhanced by new faculty member.
- Funds are available for inviting in well-known speakers for
seminars.
- Junior faculty members have been supported to meet with program
officers of granting agencies.
- Two Native Americans (one from the tribal community college
and one from BHSU) participated as undergraduate research fellows
and a majority of the fellows were women (Augie and BHSU have
60% female students).
- Web site is developing resources for what large pieces of equipment
are available to researchers in SD and which faculty members in
the state are involved in which research areas.
- The increase in library resources at SWCC has been significant
due to BRIN with the highest use of BRIN library resources among
all campuses to date.
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