RAPID CITY, South Dakota, June 6 (TNSjou) -- The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology issued the following news release: Tula R. Paudel, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics at South Dakota Mines is among the researchers who helped discover new active materials for computer memory. The discovery could lead to increased memory storage in a smaller space at increased computer speeds. Paudel and the team are working with multiferroic materials that can be electrically and magnetically pol  more

ABERDEEN, South Dakota, June 6 (TNSjou) -- Northern State University issued the following news: Northern State University faculty members were among the co-authors of a recent scholarly blog piece and journal article based on their research surrounding mandatory reporting. The article, "Mandatory reporting and the retaliation factor," was published in the journal, Children and Youth Services Review. The study was conducted by Dr. Franne Sippel of Aberdeen's Northern Plains Psychological Associ  more

WESTVILLE, Indiana, June 9 (TNSper) -- Purdue University Northwest issued the following news release: Purdue University Northwest (PNW) announced that Bruce W. Berdanier will join the university as dean of the College of Engineering and Sciences, effective July 24, 2023. Berdanier most recently served as the Lohr Endowed Dean of the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering at South Dakota State University (SDSU) in Brookings, S.D. As dean at SDSU, Berdanier's accomplishments included the completi  more

PIERRE, South Dakota, June 7 (TNSper) -- Gov. Kristi Noem, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release on June 6, 2023: Today, Governor Kristi Noem announced that she will appoint Randy Frederick and Randy Rasmussen to serve on the South Dakota Board of Regents. "The Board of Regents must revitalize the institutions under its control and to lead the nation by example. Together, we will work to provide an education that truly prepares our kids for the world they are entering without indoc  more

PIERRE, South Dakota, June 9 -- Gov. Kristi Noem, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: Governor Noem will testify before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources on Thursday, June 15, in favor of HR 3397. This bill would require the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to abandon the proposed rule on "Conservation and Landscape Health." "Washington bureaucrats don't know how to manage land better than the South Dakotans who have been stewarding it for   more

PIERRE, South Dakota, June 7 -- The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission issued the following news release on June 6, 2023: The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission approved a settlement stipulation lowering Xcel Energy's requested increase to the company's electric service rates. The action was at the PUC's regular commission meeting today, June 6, 2023, and affects Xcel Energy customers in its South Dakota retail service territory. The approved electric rate represents an increase th  more

RAPID CITY, South Dakota, June 7 (TNSres) -- The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology issued the following news release on June 6, 2023: On the night of June 12, 2022, a storm system began dumping rain on the Beartooth Range of northern Wyoming and southern Montana. Over the next 24 hours, about four inches fell on the still snow-covered peaks of the northern Rockies. The rain-on-snow effect drove a rapid loss of mountain snowpack. Because of this, streams and rivers quickly swelled out   more

BROOKINGS, South Dakota, June 10 (TNSres) -- South Dakota State University issued the following news: Artificial intelligence tools can be found in nearly every sector of society and are quickly becoming this century's great technological advancement. In the agriculture sector, large-scale farming operations are utilizing AI to increase profitability, reduce environmental impacts and promote sustainable practices. But how are small-scale operations utilizing AI? Are smallholder farmers seeing   more