Campus Currents

Prospective students are snapping their photos with of Black Hills State University displays at the Rushmore Mall in Rapid City and the Empire Mall in Sioux Falls in hopes of winning a $1,000 scholarship contest.

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Black Hills State University’s Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) recently received two grants from local organizations. One grant was from the Greater Belle Fourche Area Community Foundation for $500, and the other grant was from the Spearfish Area Foundation for $750.

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Longtime Black Hills State University coach and athlete Dale Hardy, 88, died on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013, at the South Dakota Veteran’s Home in Hot Springs, leaving behind a successful career in athletics which spanned nearly six decades.

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Once viewed as “spin doctors,” public relations specialists sometimes had a history of less-than-stellar practices. PR professionals, however, are shedding that stereotype and a group of Black Hills State University communication students are demonstrating what public relations can do for a company or organization.

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Internationally renowned stone sculptor Masayuki Nagase will hold a community design workshop at Black Hills State University Sunday, Feb. 3 at 1 p.m. in Clare and Josef Meier Hall. The workshop is an opportunity to meet the artist, hear about plans for his project “Passage of Wind and Water” at Main Street Square in Rapid City, and give input for design elements.

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When Black Hills State University alumnus John Johnson received the call that he would be one of the 2012 honorees for the Starkey Hearing Foundation,he wondered how a small town boy from South Dakota could receive a honor shared by former President Bill Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Sir Elton John, Willie Mays and Billie Jean King.

But Johnson soon realized that while he joined a long listof high profile celebrities they all had the same goal: making the world abetter place. 

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Black Hills State University instructor Erica Merchant is sharing layers of her life through a new mixed media exhibit at the Ruddell Gallery located in the David B. Miller Yellow Jacket Student Union.

The exhibit, which began last week and runs through Feb. 6, features several wall pieces exposing concepts of geological time and fossilized moments that are discard or overlooked.

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Black Hills State University faculty and staff are transforming lives and making headlines.

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Registration is now open for the spring session of the South Dakota Stock Market (SDSMG) game. The educational activity, which is coordinated by Black Hills State University, included more than 1,000 students from 46 schools throughout the state last year.

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 Check out what Dr. Emilia Boeschen, assistant professor of psychology and Lauren Lund, one of her student research assistants, are saying about their study of competitive anxiety in athletes with intellectual disabilities, and how they are taking the study across the world to the South Korea Special Olympics World Games.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX6dB9OnuJw&feature=youtu.be

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A workshop, “How to use mobile marketing,” will be held at Black Hills State University Thursday, Jan. 24 from 3 to 5 p.m. in Clare and Josef Meier Hall room 204.

The SD Center for Enterprise Opportunity (SD CEO), located on the campus of Black Hills State University has partnered with Black Hills PR and For The Win Interactive to bring this workshop to campus.

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Black Hills State University enactus students and the South Dakota Center for Enterprise Opportunity (SD CEO), the women’s business center at BHSU, will host Facebook for Retirees Thursday, Jan. 24 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Jonas Hall room 205 on the BHSU campus.

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The Dakota Chamber Orchestra will begin rehearsals for the2013 spring semester Tuesday, Jan. 15 on the campus of Black Hills State University in Spearfish. Rehearsals are held in the Meier Hall band room.

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Black Hills State University alumni, including former track & field and cross country athletes, are encouraged to participate in the 21^st annual Alumni Mile weekend Jan. 25 and 26.

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Black Hills State University is giving away a $1,000 scholarship to one lucky incoming freshman during a post-holiday scholarship contest. To enter the contest students must submit a photo of themselves posing with the BHSU displays at the Rushmore Mall in Rapid City or the Empire Mall in Sioux Falls.

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