CSA position open -
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The following Career Service position is open:
Senior programmer analyst, Library Learning Center
For more information, view the announcement at
https://YourFuture.sdbor.edu.
CSA position open to
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The following Career Service position is open and
limited to Career Service employees of the Facilities Services
Department:
- Custodial worker, Facilities Services
For more information, view the announcement at
https://YourFuture.sdbor.edu.
Resignation -
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- Amanda Finn, program assistant II, University Support Services
BHSU will enhance Herbarium
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Curtis Card (left) and Mark Gabel
(right) discuss future enhancements of the Black Hills State University
Herbarium made possible by a recent $462,000 grant. The improvements at
the Herbarium will make knowledge of the flora of the area more
accessible to researchers, land managers and the general public. It will
increase the research use of the Herbarium and provide resources for
future generations.
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Black Hills State University recently received a
$462,000 grant to enhance the Herbarium located on campus.
Funds from the grant will be used to double herbarium
storage capacity and construct a web-searchable database of nearly all
vascular plant specimens from western South Dakota and eastern Wyoming,
according to Dr. Mark Gabel, emeritus biology professor, and Dr. Curtis
Card, associate mathematics professor, who are the principal
investigators for the grant.
Approximately 30 additional herbarium cabinets and a
compactor system to maximize the use of space in the BHSU Herbarium will
be acquired. Currently the Herbarium has more than 30,000 vascular
plants specimens, 10,000 fossil plant specimens, and over 2,600 fungal
specimens. During the three-year project, construction of the database
will be done with assistance from undergraduate students from Black
Hills State University and the University of Kansas and graduate
students from South Dakota State University, the University of South
Dakota, and the University of Wyoming.
The project will compile and disseminate information
on one of the botanically least known areas of the continental United
States. The study area, especially the Black Hills and Bear Lodge
Mountains, have a high biological diversity according to Gabel. The
study area includes two national forests, three national grasslands, two
national parks, two national monuments, one national memorial and five
American Indian reservations.
Gabel noted that it is very gratifying for a national
panel of one’s colleagues to acknowledge that the work you are doing is
valuable to one’s peers, to the discipline, to conservation
professionals and to land managers. Card indicated that it is important
to note that mathematics, computer technology and biology are uniting to
provide a very valuable product for several disciplines.
“This project will make knowledge of the flora of the
area more accessible to researchers, land managers and the general
public. It will increase the research use of the herbarium and allow for
the preservation of the BHSU Herbarium resources for future
generations,” Card says.
The project will increase research use of the
collections in the area and allow for availability of data for
governmental, non-governmental and educational uses. The information
will help ascertain the status of sensitive plant species and allow the
use of database information to produce maps of species distributions. He
added that the information will allow improved hypotheses about
historical distributions and current plant distribution, provide
baseline data for future studies, and increase collaboration and
research productivity in related disciplines. Invasive species, such as
weeds, will also be cataloged in the database to allow precise future
monitoring.
“The broader impacts of this activity will include a
multitude of uses which will be readily available to the public. The web
access will provide a database for classes and for undergraduate
research at Black Hills State University and other institutions,” Gabel
says. In addition, a workshop for secondary education teachers will
facilitate development of web-based research for high school students.
The database and a workshop for land managers will allow more informed
management of public and private lands.
The BHSU Herbarium was established shortly after the
establishment of Dakota Territorial Normal School (which is now BHSU) in
1883. The earliest specimens in the collection date to the 1880s. The
general collection includes a large number of specimens from the Black
Hills and the surrounding region, as well as specimens from many
countries throughout the world. Almost all of the 1,500 species of
plants from the region are represented in the collections, with grasses
especially well represented.
Card received a bachelor’s degree from the University
of South Dakota in 1970, a master’s degree from the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln in 1979, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wyoming in
1993. He joined the faculty at BHSU in 1991.
Gabel received a bachelor’s degree from Augustana
College in 1972, a master’s degree and Ph.D. from Iowa State University
in 1979 and 1982. He joined the BHSU faculty in 1982 and received
professor emeritus status in 2003.
Annual Senior Art Exhibit held
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The annual Black Hills State University Senior Art
Exhibit will be held Friday, April 28, Saturday, April 29, and Sunday,
April 30 at the Matthews Opera House located on Main Street in
Spearfish.
There will be an opening reception Friday, April 28
from 4:30 p.m. until 8 p.m. Refreshments will be served along with a
cash bar. Saturday, April 29 the show will be open from 10 a.m. until 4
p.m., and Sunday, April 30 the show will be open from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Fourteen BHSU senior art major artists will be
involved in the exhibit, including: Megan Burke, from Rapid City, Amber
Renese Butler, from Black Hawk, Julie A. Dendy, from Spearfish, June
Engler, from Spearfish, Tricia Fillingim, from Spearfish, Shari Lynn
Furchner, from Rapid City, Mae Gill, from Spearfish, Anthony Kitchens,
from Pourde, Colo., Liz Locke, from Rapid City, Joseph Paul Lowe, from
Rapid City, Elizabeth Miller, from Bowdle, Dustin M. Price, from Rapid
City, Anna Tescher, from Spearfish, and Casey VanSickle, from Spearfish.
In addition to the senior exhibit, there will be a
reception for the annual juried student art competition, entitled
Hazardous Materials. The reception will be Friday, April 28 from 12:00
p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Ruddell Gallery at the David B. Miller Yellow
Jacket Student Union. The exhibition will be on display until Saturday,
May 13.
The exhibits are free and open to the public. For more
information on either exhibit, contact James Knutson, BHSU art
professor, at 642-6104.
Concert Band and Chamber Players
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The Black Hills State University Concert Band and
Chamber Players will perform their Spring Concert Monday, May 1 at 7:30
p.m. in the Clare and Josef Meier recital hall on the BHSU campus.
The concert will feature music from Broadway (Cole
Porter, West Side Story) and Hollywood (Braveheart, and
The Incredibiles). Light classics by Mozart and Grofe are also on
the program. Chamber groups participating include the percussion
ensemble, a clarinet quintet, and a trombone quartet.
For more information on the concert, contact Janeen
Larsen, music professor and Chair of the Department of Fine and Applied
Arts at BHSU, at 642-6241.
BHSU student premieres original
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Black Hills State University senior Jared McDaris will
present the debut performance of his original one-act play, On Either
Side of Him, Wednesday, May 3 and Thursday, May 4 at 7:30 p.m. in
the Woodburn Hall Auditorium.
On the Either Side of Him, written and directed
by McDaris, an English major from Spearfish, is an existentialist play
based loosely on the parable of the two thieves that were crucified with
Jesus. It will star BHSU students Ian Vytlacil, a junior mass
communication major from Box Elder; Andrew Rexroad, a freshman speech
major from Black Hawk; Casey Hibbert, a sophomore speech major from
Spearfish; Sean Pence, a sophomore mass communications major from Hot
Springs; Kristin DiSanto, a freshman from Rapid City and Jared Hall, a
senior speech major from Gettysburg. Jessica Juhrend, a Spearfish
community member, will also appear in the production.
In the play, Ari (Vytlacil) and Zed (Rexroad) find
themselves waking up on either side of a mysterious vagabond (Hibbert),
whose cryptic words “life is a desert” inadvertently lead them on a
disjointed journey through their past, present and future. Along the
way, they meet a host of figures that the audience may recognize from
the Bible, as well as several that seem nothing more than the
result of the thieves’ fractured imaginations. Mixing irreverent comedy
with dark introspection, the show ends on a note either dismal or
hopeful, depending on how you look at it.
The play is open to the public at no cost. It is
approximately 90 minutes long, and there will be no intermission. For
more information, contact Bert Juhrend, assistant theatre professor at
BHSU, at 642-6268.
Results announced for the 2006
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Overall winners at the annual Kevin
Whirlwind Horse Memorial Run at Black Hills State University were Lisa
Howard and Wally Little Moon for the 5K run. David Siemens and Marcie
Holben (not pictured) were the overall winners the in the 10K run.
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The overall winners at the annual Kevin Whirlwind
Horse Memorial Run were David Siemens and Marcie Holben in the 10K run
and Wally Little Moon and Lisa Howard in the 5K run.
The Kevin Whirlwind Horse Memorial Run is sponsored
each year on the Saturday of the Lakota Omniciye spring powwow in memory
of Kevin Whirlwind Horse, a former BHSU student who was killed in a car
accident in 1984. Marla Herman, a fellow student and member of Lakota
Omniciye, organized the first memorial run in the spring of 1985, and it
has been held every year since.
Kevin was an active and respected student leader, and
the memorial run/walk fundraiser serves to recognize the achievements of
students who are working to improve their campus, community, and world
through the active pursuit of higher education. Each year, one $500
scholarship is presented to an American Indian sophomore who
demonstrates outstanding academic ability and leadership skills.
Complete race results: (runners are from Spearfish
unless otherwise noted):
Girls 8 & Under ¼-mile run: 1st, Danielle
Whirlwind Horse, Manderson; 2nd, Isabelle Silva; 3rd, Stella Marcus
Boys 8 & Under ¼-mile run: 1st, Sterling McMichael; 2nd, Colin
Haines, EAFB; 3rd, Stran Holben; 4th, Dylan Howard; 5th, Chandler
McMichael
Girls 9-12 ½-mile run: 1st, Lareese Blue Legs (Pine Ridge); 2nd,
Kira Meek (Rosebud)
5K Run results:
Womens 13-19 5K: 1st, Meghan Pedersen
Mens 13-19 5K: 1st, Kael Whirlwind Horse, Eagle Butte; 2nd, Matt
Pedersen
Womens 20-29 5K: 1st, Michelle Leonard, Rapid City
Mens 20-29 5K: 1st, Joshua Lund; 2nd, Alex Baldwin, Rapid City;
3rd, Adam Roosa, Rapid City
Womens 30-39 5K: 1st, Lisa Howard; 2nd, Urla Marcus; 3rd, Becky
Pedersen
Mens 30-39 5K: 1st, Jason Schlichtemeier, Sturgis; 2nd, Chad
Konstant
Womens 40-49 5K: 1st, Cherrie Palmer, Sundance, Wyo.
Mens 40-49 5K: 1st, Mike Friedel, Sturgis; 2nd, Wade Pehl, Belle
Fourche; 3rd, Mike Clinchers
Womens 50 & Over 5K: 1st, Yvonne Adrion, Belle Fourche
Mens 50 & Over 5K: 1st, Wally Little Moon, Howes; 2nd, George
Watts, Valentine, Neb.; 3rd, Mike Besso, Lead
10K Run results:
Womens 20-29 10K: 1st, Tara Brodkorb
Mens 20-29 10K: 1st, Douglas Stevens, Pierre; 2nd, Chris Sargent,
Rapid City; 3rd, Colby Anderson, EAFB
Womens 30-39 10K: 1st, Marcie Holben; 2nd, Shannon Burnette,
Rapid City; 3rd, Kim Knecht, Pierre
Mens 30-39 10K: 1st, Thomas Yellow Boy, Mission; 2nd, Matthew
Rama, Kyle; 3rd, Thomas Haines, Jr., EAFB
Womens 40-49 10K: 1st, Betsy Silva
Mens 40-49 10K: 1st, David Siemens; 2nd, Tim Potts, Sturgis; 3rd,
Charlie Wharton, Pierre
Womens 50 & Over 10K: 1st, LeAnn Vette
Mens 50 & Over 10K: 1st, Gary Miller, Rapid City; 2nd, Keith
Thompson, Rapid City
Grant opportunities announced
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Below are program materials received in the Grants Office, Woodburn
309, through Wednesday, April 26. For copies of the information, contact
the office at 642-6204 or e-mail requests to
grants@bhsu.edu. Fellowship
information will also be posted on the Student Union bulletin board near
the information desk.
Clinical Trial Planning Grant Program (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications
under the National Institute of Health Clinical Trial Planning Grant
Program, the purpose of which is to provide support for the development
of a Phase III clinical trial. This includes the establishment of the
research team, the development of tools for data management and
oversight of the research, the definition of recruitment strategies, and
the finalization of the protocol and other essential elements of the
study included in a manual of operations/procedures. The Clinical Trial
Planning Grant is not designed for the collection of preliminary data or
the conduct of pilot studies to support the rationale for a clinical
trial. All investigator-initiated grant applications described in this
FOA will be assigned to NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) according to
standard Public Health Service (PHS) referral guidelines and specific
program interests. This FOA will use the Clinical Trial Planning Grant
(R34) mechanism.
- Special Research Interests: Investigators are strongly
encouraged to consult the list of participating ICs and special
research interests. See
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/contacts/pa-06-363_contacts.htm.
See also the NIH R34 website at
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/r34.htm. Because the nature
and scope of the proposed research will vary from application to
application, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each
award will also vary. The total amount awarded and the number of
awards will depend upon the mechanism numbers, quality, duration,
and costs of the applications received.
- Project Period and Award Levels: The total project period for an
application submitted in response to this funding opportunity is one
year. Direct costs of up to $100,000 may be requested for the
one-year period - Renewal (formerly competing continuation or Type 2
applications are not permitted.).
- Eligible Organizations: For profit organizations; non-profit
organizations; public or private institutions, such as universities,
colleges, hospitals and laboratories; units of state government;
units of local government; eligible agencies of the federal
government; domestic institutions/organizations; foreign
institutions/organizations; faith-based or community-based
organizations; Indian/Native American Tribal government (federally
recognized); Indian/Native American Tribal government (other than
federally recognized); and Indian/Native American Tribally
designated organization.
- Eligible Project Directors/Principal Investigators (PDs/PIs):
Any individual with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary
to carry out the proposed research is invited to work with his/her
institution to develop an application for support. Individuals from
underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals
with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.
Applicants may submit more than one application, provided each
application is scientifically distinct.
Areas of consideration include:
- Alcohol Research Career Development Awards for Scientists and
Clinicians
- Alcohol National Research Service Awards for Research Training
- Alcohol Research Programs
- Career Development Awards
- Drug Abuse National Research Service Awards for Research
Training
- Drug Abuse Research Programs
- Population Research
- Aging Research
- Alcohol Research Center Grants
Deadline: Multiple receipt dates. For details see the link to
the full announcement at
www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=9172&mode=VIEW.
National Conferences on Undergraduate Research/Lancy Foundation CFP
The Board of Governors of the National Conferences on Undergraduate
Research (NCUR) and the Trustees of the Alice and Leslie E. Lancy
Foundation issue a call for proposals for the 2007 NCUR/Lancy
Initiative. The initiative is designed to provide exceptional
undergraduates with the opportunity to do original work in close
collaboration with faculty mentors. The program will make grants to
institutions only. The initial award will be $40,000 for the summer of
2007, to be used primarily for the support of student creative and
scholarly work. Awardee institutions may apply for an additional $22,500
for the summer of 2008, providing they have made acceptable progress
during the first year of the award.
The NCUR/Lancy program encourages colleges and universities to devote
additional attention and resources to undergraduates showing promise of
exceptional achievement. The program focus is on helping to build
communities of student and faculty scholars spanning the academic
disciplines but working on a unifying theme. An institution that
receives an NCUR/Lancy award will have a cadre of faculty with the time,
energy, and interest to supervise six to ten undergraduates for a period
of eight to ten weeks during the summer, and an administrative support
structure that will nurture this activity. Scholars supported by an
NCUR/Lancy award are expected to present their work at the annual
National Conference on Undergraduate Research.
A recipient institution will have a stated plan to use its award as
“seed-money” to build or expand a perennial summer program. In this
regard, the program aspires to catalyze efforts of faculty,
administrators and development officers to build a sustainable program.
Both NCUR and the Lancy Foundation are committed to the notion that a
broad interdisciplinary perspective is vital for an educated member of
contemporary society. Thus, NCUR/Lancy summer support is available to
students majoring in any discipline, and proposals must stipulate how
interdisciplinary representation in the sciences, humanities, arts, and
social sciences will be achieved. Institutions should propose summer
research programs with a cohesive theme, a single project that may be
evaluated and researched by students from a variety of disciplines.
Deadline: Aug. 1, 2006, for letters of intent. Full proposals
are due Aug. 15, 2006. See www.ncur.org
for more information.
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