MADISON, South Dakota, Aug. 29 (TNSres) -- Dakota State University issued the following news: After a friend spotted a snake with weird-looking scales on the outskirts of Sioux Falls, DSU student Adam Peak was intrigued. "We researched it and discovered that it was likely a rare infection that was going on," Peak said. That infection, commonly referred to as Snake Fungal Disease, is caused by the fungus Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola, which is a threat to wild snakes, explained Dr. Andrew Sathoff,  more

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas, Aug. 31 -- Johnson County Community College issued the following news release: Jacquelyn Eidson, Ph.D., director of the National Higher Education Benchmarking Institute, has been appointed to serve as a member of the Regional Advisory Committee: Central by U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel A. Cardona, Ed.D. As a member of the Regional Advisory Committee: Central, Eidson will provide advice and recommendations regarding the educational needs of Colorado, Kansas, Missouri  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug. 31 -- Emory University issued the following news release: An Emory University registry that tracks out-of-hospital cardiac arrests nationwide is expanding into eight largely rural states thanks to new grant funding from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. Emory's nationally distinguished Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES) will use the three-year, $899,215 grant to improve cardiac arrest response and survivability in Iowa, Minnesota, Mont  more

BROOKINGS, South Dakota, Aug. 30 -- South Dakota State University issued the following news: Bill Gibbons, director of the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station at South Dakota State University, associate dean of research for the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences and distinguished professor, retired in July 2023 after 36 years of dedicated service to the university. Gibbons held the roles of director of the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station at South Dako  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Aug. 31 -- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein issued the following news release on Aug. 30, 2023: Attorney General Josh Stein today led a bipartisan coalition of 33 attorneys general calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and its Center for Tobacco Products to do more to protect kids from e-cigarettes. Attorney General Stein's suggestions include limiting the flavors that draw kids in, reducing nicotine levels to prevent addiction, and protecting  more

PIERRE, South Dakota, Sept. 2 -- Gov. Kristi Noem, R-South Dakota, issued the following Commentary on Sept. 1, 2023: * * * The Fight for Our Country I was recently at the edge of "the Land of the Free" - the Southern border. I've been to the border before, but this was my first time seeing it from the air. After taking an aerial tour, it became clearer to me than ever before that what we are witnessing at the border is a warzone. President Biden has failed to keep the United States of Americ  more

PIERRE, South Dakota, Aug. 30 -- Gov. Kristi Noem, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release on Aug. 29, 2023: Today, Governor Kristi Noem led ten of her fellow Republican governors in urging Congress to address the nationwide shortage of prescription drugs. Governor Noem and her colleagues submitted a letter to leadership in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The letter was addressed to Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY),   more

BROOKINGS, South Dakota, Sept. 1 (TNSres) -- South Dakota State University issued the following news: By Dave Graves For the third time in as many years, mechanical engineering faculty member Jeffrey Doom was selected for the Summer Faculty Fellowship Program through the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering associate professor was assigned to work at a unclassified research lab at the Air Force Research Laboratory near Dayton, Ohio, with Timothy O  more

BROOKINGS, South Dakota, Aug. 30 (TNSres) -- South Dakota State University issued the following news on Aug. 29, 2023: By Addison DeHaven Organic farming--in the United States and South Dakota--is on the rise. According to the Pew Research Center, the number of organic farms in the U.S. was estimated around 14,000 in 2016--a 56% increase from just five years earlier. In 2021, despite economic and production challenges, total sales of organics reached an all-time high at $11.2 billion. Resear  more

RAPID CITY, South Dakota, Aug. 29 (TNSres) -- The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology issued the following news release: South Dakota Mines has created a new multidisciplinary Center for Sustainable Solutions. The center will be a hub for research and development around sustainability including water quality, emerging contaminants, agriculture, infrastructure, carbon capture, biofuels, bioplastics, environmental stewardship and more. "As society faces increasingly complex problems, pro  more

RAPID CITY, South Dakota, Aug. 31 -- The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology issued the following news release: South Dakota Mines has added a new scientific instrument to the portfolio of devices on campus that tests water for trace elements and contaminants. The new Thermo Scientific Dionex ICS-6000 High Pressure Ion Chromatography System is housed in the university's Paleontology Research Laboratory. It adds to Mines' overall capacity for highly accurate water testing. "This is a ni  more

RAPID CITY, South Dakota, Aug. 30 (TNSres) -- The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology issued the following news release: Gokce K Ustunisik, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering at South Dakota Mines, and Alexander Rogaski, who completed his master's degree at Mines under Ustunisik, have produced minerals found on Mars by experimentally mimicking the conditions in Martian fumaroles, or vents found in areas of volcanic activity. Their work  more

VERMILLION, South Dakota, Aug. 31 (TNSres) -- The University of South Dakota issued the following news: * * * Long before becoming the chair of the Department of Biology, Jake Kerby, Ph.D., was a pre-medical student looking for ways to stack his resume and gain experience. For Kerby, undergraduate research proved to be the best way to do that, and now, he's committed to giving students at the University of South Dakota the same transformative experience he had. * * * "I initially got involve  more