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Kinchel Doerner named program director for research integrity and compliance

Before South Dakota was a state, before the Dakota Agricultural College became Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ and even before the United States Weather Bureau, the precursor to the National Weather Service, was formed, there were people who recognized the value of collecting weather data. The first iteration of a weather station in Brookings began recording daily temperature and precipitation totals on July 1, 1888.

Four new faculty members have joined the Lohr College of Engineering this fall.

Caden Fischer, of Menno, is in his first year of graduate school, pursuing a master’s degree in mathematics. After his junior year, he participated in Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Experience for Undergraduates at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ. That lead to him becoming a Future Innovator of America during his senior year. That lead to a summer fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory this past summer.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's Solaiman Tarafder is developing a new bioadhesive that not only holds tissue together, but also actively encourages stronger, faster healing.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's Ananda Nanjundaswamy is developing a natural and safe alternative to synthetic food dyes.  

A new grant from the National Science Foundation will allow a collaborative group of researchers — led by Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ associate professor Nicholas Butzin — to study and identify molecules that can neutralize harmful microbes.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ assistant professor Phuong Nguyen will leverage artificial intelligence to streamline the project delivery process together with permitting, mitigation and compliance systems for South Carolina's Department of Transportation.

On there outside, Future Innovator of America Samara Overvaag looks like the typical 21-year-old SDSU student. But when she starts describing her research project that involves negative kinetic energy and ghost systems, one realizes she is quite unique.

Renaissance man could well describe William Karels. So could groundbreaker. At the close of the past school year, the mechanical engineering senior learned he would receive the Duane Hanson Scholarship, becoming the first Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ student to receive the $5,000 award from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. He also is only the second SDSU student to receive a scholarship from the international society of more than 50,000 heating, refrigerating and air-conditioning professionals. For the 2013-14 school year, Mitchell Hoesing received a $5,000 general award from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers.