| A new state-of-the-art
molecular genetics laboratory has been established at
Black Hills State University with funds from two national
science foundation grants. BHSU now has one of the best
molecular genetics facilities in the sate of South Dakota
according to Shane Sarver, BHSU biology assistant
professor. The new facility, in Jonas 155, provides BHSU
students with the unique opportunity to gain hands-on
experience with equipment not readily accessible to
students at most universities. Sarver and Mark Gabel,
BHSU bology professor, collaborated with Kent Jenson of
Oglala Lakota College on a grant for $123,000 to fund new
equipment at BHSU and OLC. The title of the grant is
“Conservation Genetics of Rare and Sensitve Species
in Undergradaute and Secondary School Laboratories.”
The grant also funds curriculum enhancements at the two
schools.
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The new equipment will be
used to train pre-services and in-service science
teachers in molecular biology. Mobile molecular biology
kits will be purchased for South Dakota high school
teachers to check out to use with students at their
schools. A second grant from the National Science
Foundation for $88,286 also purchased equipment for the
new laboratory. This grant titled “The Acquisition
of Equipment for a Molecular Genetics Laboratory to
Support Research and Training” was written by
Sarver. The focal point was the purchase of an automated
genetic analyzer, which is one of the only instruments of
its type in the entire region.
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