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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵers in Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's Animal Disease Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ and Diagnostic Laboratory were the first to identify a new strain of avian metapneumovirus — a highly contagious disease that is currently causing significant problems for the U.S. poultry industry — and are now working toward developing a safe and effective vaccine.

Mohammed Teymouri, assistant professor of construction management in Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering, is working to solve one of the most pressing issues in the construction industry: how to lower carbon emissions of concrete.

Rachel Short and Gazala Ameen, two assistant professors in Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences, have each received one of the National Science Foundation's most prestigious grants for early career faculty to pursue biology research projects.

The annual Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ 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.

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.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ researcher Srinivas Janaswamy has demonstrated how switchgrass can be utilized to create bioplastics.

Can artificial intelligence tools help predict stock price movement and volatility? Two Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ researchers believe so.

After nearly two years of construction, the POET Bioproducts Center has officially opened its doors to the region's leading bioprocessing scientists. The new laboratory, located in the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Park at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, will bring researchers from SDSU and South Dakota Mines together with industry partners to scale up innovative biotechnologies and varying South Dakota's economy.

Farmers across the United States will be able to monitor their crops in real time, thanks to a novel algorithm from researchers in Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's world-renowned Image Processing Lab was recognized by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration during the 2022 Robert H. Goddard Awards, held earlier this year.