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The annual ºù«Ӱҵ 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.

ºù«Ӱҵ student Kaitlyn Preszler conducted research on the relationship between cattle and wildflowers in South Dakota.

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.

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 ºù«Ӱҵ's Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering.

A new study from ºù«Ӱҵ's College of Nursing investigates the perceived barriers to cancer care in rural South Dakota.

In South Dakota, 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 ºù«Ӱҵ will explore if biofilms made from dental plaque can help improve the stability of problematic soils.

Saikat Basu, assistant professor in ºù«Ӱҵ'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.

In 2022, fertilizer prices reached an all-time high. In a new study, ºù«Ӱҵ researchers explored how farmers in the Upper Midwest are dealing with the increased costs.

A new study from ºù«Ӱҵ was the first of its kind to explore the live bait trade in the Missouri River basin.

ºù«Ӱҵ has been selected to lead a research project that will analyze the racial and geographic disparities in mortality with end-stage renal (kidney) disease with a focus on Native American and Hispanic populations in South Dakota.