Here's a round-up of research not being conducted at a South Dakota university run by Monsanto executive board member David Chicoine: Monsanto's flagship herbicide Roundup damages mouth cells and DNA: To reflect occupational exposure, human buccal epithelial cells were exposed…
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Oh, and SDSU and Brookings were doing so well... Dwaine Chapel has resigned from the executive directorship of the Lake Area Improvement Corporation. Chapel is leaving one of the few six-figure salaries in Madison to work where he lives, in…
House Bill 1051 is a simple appropriations measure, authorizing the construction of a bunch of new projects on our state campuses. But it also authorizes knocking down several buildings to make way for progress. Among the edifices (I want to…
I speak as a South Dakotan and a graduate of South Dakota State University. Someone disgraces South Dakota State University and good outdoorspeople of all school colors by hanging a dead coyote on USD's amusingly snarky billboard in Brookings Tuesday.…
The Cooperative Extension Service and land grant universities across the country are taking budget hits. She probably doesn't remember it, but Congresswoman Kristi Noem has already voted to cut millions from the USDA's research, education, and extension budget. Her House…
Looking at the 100-plus layoffs at SDSU, that Sioux Falls paper concludes that USD has better planners. School officials appear to agree: South Dakota State University officials have announced layoffs, downsizings and vacancy eliminations that will cut more than 110…
Well, at least we still have D-I football.... Over one hundred well-trained professionals are having a harder time this morning explaining why they would want to live in South Dakota. Our flagship university and my alma mater, South Dakota State…
South Dakota's K-12 public schools aren't the only educational institutions being hammered by the Russell Olson-Dennis Daugaard budget cuts. South Dakota also seems determined to eliminate vital programs in our public university system. Our largest, most successful, most academically diverse…