Dukes of Dixieland in first Woodbine Productions benefit

Tickets to hear the Dukes of Dixieland May 21 are available at the Information Exchange in The Union.

Fusing 21st century strands of pop, gospel, and country with authentic New Orleans sounds, the Dukes of Dixieland will bring their unique and distinct version of jazz to the Performing Art Center May 21 at 7 p.m.

A New Orleans tradition now in their fourth decade, the Dukes of Dixieland have shared the stage with other musical greats such as Ella Fitzgerald and Pete Fountain. They?ve also appeared as special guests with several major symphony orchestras.

The Louisiana-based jazz group has reached international fame, performing from Japan to Spain to Turkey as well as all over the U.S. They have been nominated for a Grammy and carry on the tradition of New Orleans-inspired, foot-stomping tunes. Recent albums have received rave reviews for the group?s authenticity and tight playing.

Woodbine Productions is a new performing arts series affiliated with the SDSU Foundation. Due to generous anonymous support, the series will bring two, world-class musical productions to Brookings each year.

All ticket sales from the series will go directly to support SDSU music scholarships.

Tickets are available through the Information Exchange in The Union. General admission is $20. Tickets are that available to students for $5. 

For ticket information, contact, 688.6127.

Instructional Design offers additional courses

Instructional Design Services has added two additional courses of Desire 2 Learn in five two-hour sessions to be offered 9 to 11 a.m. during the weeks of May 12-16 and May 19-23.

The curriculum will include: Monday, introduction; Tuesday, content; Wednesday, assessment; Thursday, communication; Friday, grades. There are 10 seats available in the classroom so registration is a must.

Register and sign up at http://ids.sdstate.edu/Training/schedule.cfm. [External Hyperlink]

D2L will be presenting the eLearning Academy this summer. The sessions are: June 2-6, D2L for new users; June 9-13, D2L for advanced users; June 16-20, (online), D2L for new users; June 23-27 (online), D2L for advanced users; July 7-11, D2L for new users; July 14-18, D2L for advanced users; and July 28-Aug. 1 (online), D2L for new users.

For more information, contact Instructional Design Services, 688-6340.

Founder of World Game Institute brings program to Union

Martin Gabel

A free workshop on global studies and sustainability of natural resources and their distribution will be held Saturday, May 17 in the Volstorff Ballroom at the Union. 

The workshop begins at 9 a.m. conducted by Medard Gabel, co-founder of the World Game Institute which he started in 1972 with noted author and futurist, Buckminster Fuller.

The SDSU workshop, entitled BigPictureSmallWorld, focuses on issues relating to globalization, involving and entertaining the audience while allowing them to better understand events and opportunities related to globalization.

The SDSU workshop begins at 9 a.m. and lasts until noon, followed by afternoon sessions with Gabel on select issues which may include design science and sustainability and distribution of resources.

Gabel has produced and delivered engaging, interactive workshops and presentations for students at all levels, elementary through college, as well as for over 30 Fortune 100 companies, including GM, IBM, and Motorola, in addition to the United Nations, World Bank and the U.S. Congress. 

Artist to show participants how to paint with flowers

The Agricultural Heritage Museum is hosting a Pressed Flowers Workshop May 17 from 9 a.m. to noon.

Marie Ann Robinson, a pressed flower artist, will lead the workshop offering participants a chance to make their own pressed flower bookmarks.

Robinson will explain how to harvest, press and store pressed flowers, along with noting which flowers are best for this process. She will also describe different flower presses used at her business, Prairie Petal Art in Wallace, and give sheets of information about using pressed flowers for participants to keep.

According to the Prairie Petal Art website, prairiepetalart.com, Robinson has been ?pressing and designing flowers? for 16 years and sells many items ranging from cards to large matted and framed artwork.

She began her love of flowers growing up in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and moving to the heart of the Ozarks in Missouri before coming to the South Dakota prairies near where her husband was born.

The class size is limited to 16 people. Registration is $15 for museum members and $20 for non-members.

Area birders called to join national migratory bird count

Oak Lake provides pristine conditions to observe and count migratory birds returning north.

Birders are called to grab binoculars and bird field guides for the annual Friends of Oak Lake Field Station Bird Walk at the field station near Astoria.

The May 10 walk coincides with the nationwide Migratory Bird Census Day. Birding experts Nelda Holden, Amy Lewis and Madeline Schickel will serve as guides.

?This is a great opportunity to learn bird identification while helping to document the birds passing through on their trek northward,? according to Gary Larson, membership coordinator and biology professor at SDSU.

Participants should gather at the Heege Administration Building at the field station at 8 a.m. The walk will last about three hours. Refreshments will be served at the end of the walk.  

A $5 donation (or paid membership in Friends of Oak Lake Field Station) will help support research at the field station.

Oak Lake is 25 miles northeast of the SDSU campus on 483rd Avenue between County Roads 40 and 44 near the Minnesota border.

Contact Larson at 688-4552 (w) or 692-5778 (h) or 690-3435 (cell) with questions or in the event of questionable weather.

South Dakota Art Museum encourages people to ?go fly a kite?

Kites of all different shapes and sizes will be part of the annual South Dakota Art Museum/Brookings Optimist kite festival May 11 at the Fishback Soccer Fields.

The South Dakota Art Museum and the Brookings Optimists are encouraging everyone to dig out their kites and dust them off for an eco-friendly day of kite flying May 11 at the Fishback Soccer Fields.

Families and friends are encouraged to bring their kites to participate in the event, which will last from 12 to 4 p.m.  

?The Kite Festival is a great way to celebrate Mothers? Day and enjoy being outdoors,? said Lynn Verschoor of the South Dakota Art Museum.  ?It?s also a fun way to make use of our South Dakota wind!?

The soccer club will have the concession stand, which will have snacks and drinks for sale.

For more information, contact Dianne Hawks, 688-4313.

PAC to host South Dakota Jazz Orchestra

The South Dakota Jazz Orchestra will play at the Performing Arts Center Sunday, May 11 at 4:00 p.m. Tickets are available at the door.

The concert will feature 17 of the region?s finest jazz musicians performing under the direction of Corliss Johnson, former director of jazz studies and former head of the Music Department. Also appearing will be David Reynolds, current head of the Music Department.

Admission prices are $10 for adults, $5 for students, and free for kids 12 and under.

South Dakota Art Museum quilting trip planned in May

A two-day, one-night trip for quilting enthusiasts will happen May 16-17 to Lincoln, Neb. sponsored by the South Dakota Art Museum. 

Registration deadline with a $100 deposit is Friday, May 9. Fare includes lodging, bus transportation, three meals, and all admission fees for $275 per person with double occupancy and $350 for single occupancy. Spots are still available.

The May weekend expedition goes by motorcoach bus to Lincoln making stops along the way to the Sioux City Art Museum, Sheldon Art Museum, revitalized downtown Haymarket District in Lincoln, quilt shops, and a winery. 

Participants will see the Tony-nominated musical, ?Quilters,? at the Loft at the Mill Theatre in Lincoln Friday night. On Saturday, a behind the scenes tour of the International Quilt Study Center is scheduled. The return trip includes a tour of historic downtown Fremont, Neb., and a brief stop at Valiant Winery in Vermillion. 

For more information, contact Dianne Hawks, 688-4313, toll free 866-805-7590 or Dianne.Hawks@sdstate.edu.

Governor?s art exhibition showing at the museum

South Dakota Art Museum will celebrate the diversity, creativity, and excellence of South Dakota artists in ?Endless Imagination: The South Dakota Governor?s Third Biennial Art Exhibition.?

The traveling exhibition runs through July 13. The show and accompanying events are sponsored by the South Dakota Art Council. A reception will be held June 13 from 4:30 to 7 p.m.

More than 400 entries were submitted from 140 artists and 55 were selected for the exhibition. Judging is based on creativity, technical capacity, and presentation. 

For more information, contact the museum, 688.5423.

Advanced placement classes offered for high school teachers

SDSU is offering two Advanced Placement Summer Institute programs during June and July. Registration for either course is due by June 9.

Week-long institutes in biology and physics are offered to high school teachers who want to teach Advanced Placement courses or who simply want to improve curriculum for all students.

The physics program will be held from June 30-July 3 with an introduction to the principals of physics, conceptual understanding and problem solving abilities, and classical and modern physics principles.

The biology session runs from July 14-18 covering a variety of lab-based projects to help students understand new organismal, cellular, molecular and genetic technologies.

Participants can also register for two graduate credits. A 50 percent reduction in tuition may be available for some South Dakota teachers, as well as supplemental funding from the Department of Education. Credits from the institute programs may apply for Teacher Certificate Renewal.

On-campus housing is available in air-conditioned Caldwell Hall for a nightly rate.

For more information, contact the Academic Evaluation and Assessment office at 688-4217 or e-mail Debra.Archer@sdstate.edu.

Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers foreign study

The Institute of International Education (IIE), in cooperation with the U.S.
Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, has announced the 2009-2010 Fulbright U.S. Student Program competition.  

The program has provided future American leaders with an unparalleled opportunity to study, conduct research, and teach in other
countries.

Interested individuals should visit the Fulbright U.S. Student Program website at www.us.fulbrightonline.org [External Hyperlink].

SDSU students should contact campus Fulbright Program Adviser Karl Schmidt. Applications must be submitted both electronically and in hard copy to Schmidt by Sept. 12. For the national deadline, applications must be received at IIE electronically by Oct. 20 and hard copy by Oct. 22.

For more information, contact Karl Schmidt, 688-4913.

Research farms to host dates for field days

SDSU has set tentative dates for this year?s field days at its research farms around South Dakota.

Scientists of the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and specialists of the South Dakota Cooperative Extension Service will be on site on those dates to discuss the latest SDSU research on weed control, soil fertility, insects, plant diseases, crop varieties, and other topics.

Extension Crops Specialist Bob Hall said the dates of particular events could change depending on weather and other factors in the growing season. SDSU will announce any changes ahead of time.

The dates are:
Central Crops and Soils Field Station, Highmore - June 25 - 5 p.m.;
Dakota Lakes Research Farm, Pierre - June 26 - 1 p.m.;
SDSU agronomy farm crop tour, Brookings - June 30 - 4 p.m.;
Northeast Research Farm summer tour, South Shore - July 2 - 4 p.m.;
Southeast Research Farm summer tour, Beresford - July 9 - 3 p.m. - dusk;
Southeast Research Farm fall tour, Beresford - Sept. 3 - 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Northeast Research Farm fall tour, South Shore - Sept. 4 - 1 to 4 p.m.

SDSU is ?poster child? for building strong rural leaders

William Nelson, president of the CHS Foundation, established by a merger of Cenex Foundation and Harvest States Foundation in 1998, explained the efforts of his foundation to help students understand the role of the U.S. in world agriculture. Nelson met with SDSU Department of Economics faculty and students on campus April 23 and 24.
 
Earlier this year, the CHS Foundation partnered with South Dakota State University to fund student international experience activities. That partnership included partial funding of the ABS 482/582 International Experience class.
 
His visit allowed Nelson to meet students who traveled to Europe during Spring break 2008 as part of the class.
 
Evert Van der Sluis, interim head of the SDSU Department of Economics, and Nels Granholm, professor of biology and coordinator of SDSU?s Global Studies Program, led the trip.
 
?SDSU has been, in many ways, the ?poster child? of this new program,? said Nelson.
 
Nelson said faculty-led international experience study trips are important.

?From the foundation?s perspective, we are looking more broadly at ways to support rural youth in agriculture and see the program as a benefit to any company that works in this area, to have more good students coming out of college.?
 
In addition to South Dakota State University, Nelson said Montana State University also is part of the CHS Foundation?s growing effort to support and fund international experiences for college students.
 
During his visit, Nelson shared information about CHS, Inc., employment opportunities and discussed the importance of the cooperative approach in the Midwest.

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The SDSU family congratulates the following people for their outstanding contributions on and off campus:

Thompson named SDSU pharmacy alumnus of year

Carv Thompson was named 2008 Alumnus of the Year by the College of Pharmacy.

Thompson spent his entire professional career in his hometown of Faith. After a bachelor?s degree in pharmacy in 1954 and a license, he served in the U.S. Army for two years, before working in his father?s drug store in Faith.

He purchased the store in 1958 when he and his wife, Margaret, expanded the business into a chain of seven Walgreen Agency Drug Stores with locations in Faith, Deadwood, Lead, Lemmon, Philip, McLaughlin, and Eagle Butte.

Active in the SDSU Preceptor Program, Thompson hired SDSU graduates and mentored them to become successful store managers, partners, and owners of their own pharmacies.

Thompson is well known for his involvement in local, state and national affairs. He was appointed by six different South Dakota governors to serve in the Legislature and on various boards and commissions, including six years on the Board of Pharmacy. In 1972, Thompson was the Republican candidate for governor of South Dakota.

In 2003, Thompson and Cliff Thomas raised the money to publish and print 1,000 copies of Harold Schuler?s book, ?A History of Pharmacy in South Dakota?. All proceeds from the sale of the book go to an endowment at SDSU to provide pharmacy scholarships.

Thompson has received the Bowl of Hygeia Award, the SDSU Distinguished Award for Community Service, was a member of the executive committee of the South Dakota Pharmacists Association, and was named the association?s honorary president. In 2004, he was recognized for his 50 years as a South Dakota pharmacist and is now a pharmacist emeritus.

Bassett becomes head of mechanical engineering

Kurt Bassett, a registered professional engineer in South Dakota and Minnesota, has been appointed permanent head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He had been acting department head since July 2007.

Bassett has been on the faculty for nearly 20 years teaching courses in thermodynamics, HVAC and thermo-fluid energy systems.

During his time at SDSU and while working as a senior project development engineer for private industry, he has conducted extensive research on energy conversion and renewable energy systems. Bassett is an accredited LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) professional.

As director of a U.S. Department of Energy Industrial Assessment Center at SDSU from 1993 to 2001, Bassett?s team completed more than 200 energy assessments and feasibility studies for commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in a five-state region.

Bassett is a native of Wilmot and earned his bachelor?s and master?s degrees in engineering at SDSU, and his Ph.D. at North Dakota State University. He and his wife Sue have three sons.

Clem named department head of pharmacy practice

Professor James Clem has been named head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice for the College of Pharmacy at South Dakota State University. He had been acting department head since last August.

A native of Sioux City, Iowa, Clem attended the University of Iowa, where he obtained both his bachelor?s degree in pharmacy and pharmacy doctorate.

After completing an adult medicine specialty residency at Scott and White Memorial Hospital in Temple, Texas, Clem?s next stop was SDSU in 1992 as an assistant professor. Sixteen years later, he finds himself leading the pharmacy practice program.

One of Clem?s main goals initially is to build on successes that the department and college have experienced in the past.

Another goal is for the college to follow a national trend to become more involved in postgraduate residency training programs throughout South Dakota. Pharmacy practice faculty work mainly as preceptors, or mentors, in the state?s three training programs that contain 11 resident positions.

Clem will continue to teach third and fourth year students in the professional program for SDSU at University Center in Sioux Falls. In addition, he will keep his role as a practicing clinical pharmacist, although decreasing the number of fourth-year students he teaches at Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls.

Brandt outstanding Family & Consumer Sciences senior

Arian Brandt, who graduated with a double major in hotel and food service management and consumer affairs, was selected as the 2008 outstanding senior in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences. Brandt is from Clear Lake.

Brandt served as vice president of the Briggs student organization; coordinated two National Consumer League study tours to Chicago and Minneapolis; chaired a Phi Upsilon honorary community service project that collected professional clothes for needy women entering the workforce; held memberships on the dean?s student advisory committee; organized dignitaries for the Hobo Day committee; traveled as an admissions ambassador; sang with the SDSU Women?s Chorus; and was involved in church activities that included participating in a mission trip to New York City.

During her college years, Brandt also worked as a student manager for ARAMARK Food Service. She was selected for a national ARAMARK internship at the University of Cincinnati last summer and attended student manager events in Chicago and Philadelphia.

Following graduation, Brandt begin's work at the Summer Olympics in Beijing, China for two months. When she returns in August, she will participate in an elite 12-week training called ?Pathways to Leadership Management? at an ARAMARK facility in Virginia followed by being placed in a conference or convention management position with the national company listed by Fortune magazine as one of ?America?s Most Admired Companies.?

Arian Brandt, Clear Lake, was presented the Outstanding Senior Student award in the SDSU College of Family and Consumer Sciences by Dean Laurie Stenberg Nichols.

Engineering grads choose more school

While a host of college graduates head to their first career job in the working world, some?like Aaron Boomsma and Travis Kubal?chose to continue as students for another five years.

After earning their bachelor?s degrees in mechanical engineering, Boomsma is headed for the University of Minnesota and Kubal plans to go to Purdue University. Both are 4.0 undergraduates enrolled in graduate programs that will lead directly to their doctorates.

Kubal says his research interests are broad, but mainly deal with the combustion of energetic materials?explosives, propellants or pyrotechnics that, when burned, release lots of energy.

?Initially, I never thought I?d go to grad school,? Kubal says. ?But after talking to employers, I knew I?d be bored with the day-in and day-out of an industry job. The new, cutting-edge research is going on at the graduate level.?

Both men will work as research assistants while they pursue higher degrees.

Both have been active in and served as officers for Tau Beta Pi engineering society and Pi Tau Sigma mechanical engineering honor society. They?ve both earned full ride scholarships to their chosen school, as well as a variety of other awards, including Tau Beta Pi fellowships.

?Last year, only 16 such fellowship awards were made from a pool of 208 applicants nationwide,? said Alex Moutsoglou, professor of mechanical engineering and advisor to Tau Beta Pi and Pi Tau Sigma. ?To have two fellowships awarded to students at the same university speaks a ton about the quality of students and programs here at SDSU. Under their leadership, both societies? activities have flourished. Their overall academic performance and activities have not passed unnoticed, either.

?A lot of times, these students are not aware of how well they compare with the best nationwide,? Moutsoglou concluded.

Thanks to the educational path Boomsma and Kubal are determined to follow, they?ll earn their doctorates by the time they?re 26 or 27 years old.

Students receive national leader awards

Two American Humanics students were selected to receive $4,500 NextGen scholarships to work with non-profit and philanthropic agencies in internships this summer. 

Jennifer Lenz, a senior human development and family studies major from Pierre, and Molly Fendrich, a senior human development and families studies major from Salem, were two of 66 students nationwide to be awarded the prestigious scholarships.

Lenz was notified by Camp Adventure, run by the University of Northern Iowa, that she will be placed somewhere as a camp counselor. Camp Adventure sends college students to military bases, embassies and British Military installations throughout the world to work as counselors running day and sports camps for children of military personnel stationed there.

Fendrich will work in Watertown at the American Cancer Society in community relations. In addition to serving as president of Colleges Against Cancer, she is also on the national student advisory board for American Humanics.

?These two students deserve the awards because both of them exemplify the best of what the American Humanics programs offers,? said Cindi Penor Ceglian, advisor for the SDSU American Humanics Student Association.

Over the next five years, 1,000 American Humanics students will be awarded the NextGen Leaders internship awards.

In addition to the $4,500 scholarship, NextGen Leaders will have the opportunity to be paired with a nonprofit professional to serve as a mentor during their internship. Leaders will be recognized at the 2009 American Humanics Management/Leadership Institute in Indianapolis.

SDSU American Humanics students Molly Fendrich, Salem, left, and Jennifer Lenz, Pierre, received NextGen Leader scholarships from American Humanics based in Kansas City.

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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ? ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS ? PLANT SCIENCE. Deadline: May 15.

ASSISTANT TRACK & FIELD COACH (SPRINT & HURDLES) ? HPER & ATHLETICS. Deadline: Until filled (applications to be reviewed beginning May 16).

HOSPITAL NEGOTIATOR/COMMUNITY LIAISON ? E.A. Martin Program. Deadline: May 18.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ? COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. Deadline: May 23.

ASSISTANT STATE SUPERVISOR OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION ? TEACHER EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. Deadline: May 23.

EXTENSION AGRONOMCY EDUCATOR - BENNETT COUNTY - COOOPERTIVE EXTENSION SERVICE. Deadline: May 27.

LECTURER ? ANIMAL & RANGE SCIENCES. Deadline: May 30.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ? PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES (filling 2 positions).
Deadline: June 1.

INSTRUCTOR ? PHYSICS. Deadline: July 1.

DEAN ? COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. Deadline: August 1.

RESEARCH COORDINATOR ? ETHEL AUSTIN MARTIN PROGRAM IN HUMAN NUTRITION. Deadline: Open until filled.

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PROGRAM ASSISTANT I ? E. A. MARTIN PROGRAM.
Deadline: May 5.

MEDIUM EQUIPMENT OPERATOR ? PHYSICAL PLANT LANDSCAPE & GROUNDS. Deadline: May 15.

SENIOR BUILDING MAINTENANCE WORKER ? FACILITIES & SERVICES (Electric Shop). Deadline: May 18.

FACILITY WORKER (part-time) - STUDENT UNION & ACTIVITIES. Deadline: Open until filled.

FACILITY WORKER - UNIVERSITY HOUSING. Deadline: Open until filled.