DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS

DSU graduate student team earns top honor from Department of Defense (Click Here to View) A graduate team from DSU, supervised by DSU professor Dr. Michael Tu, placed first in the US Graduate Team division of the 2011 Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) international competition.

 

OTHER DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS

Area elementary students "attend" college for a day
Elementary students from Oldham-Ramona, Dell Rapids Public School and Dell Rapids St. Mary school will have the opportunity to travel to Dakota State University on April 3rd for Kid's Kollege. Students ranging from 3rd to 5th grade will have the opportunity to explore campus and participate in many educational activities. Students earn this opportunity by accomplishing reading goals throughout the school year.


DSU employees ready to save lives
According to the American Heart Association, effective bystander CPR provided immediately after sudden cardiac arrest can double or triple a victim's chance of survival. Dakota State University employees recently had the chance to become certified or re-certified in lifesaving CPR. A total of 47 faculty and staff received CPR certification, with 16 of those being new certifications.


DakotaCon returns with finest in cyber-security
DakotaCon returns to the DSU campus on Friday, Saturday and Sunday April 27th, 28th and 29th with free presentations on Friday from nationally recognized speakers from the world of cyber-security including Hattrick, Moxie Marlinspike, Jon McCoy, Jeff Bullock, Joe Grand, Jared DeMott and hubris.


"Women's Education Women's Empowerment" DSU Women's Day Conference, March 28
The DSU Women's Day Conference, "Women's Education Women's Empowerment" will be held on Wednesday, March 28 in the Mundt Foundation in the basement of the Karl E. Mundt Library and Learning Commons. The luncheon begins at 11:30 a.m. with speakers throughout the day. The cost of luncheon is $10 and please RSVP to Shelly Rawstern at 256-5177 or shelly.rawstern@dsu.edu by March 23rd. If you do not wish to attend the luncheon, the conference is free to attend and starts at 12:15 p.m.


DSU faculty featured in The New York Times article
DSU faculty member, Kurt Kemper, is featured in a New York Times article on racial law and basketball in the 1950's.


Students and faculty featured in social media story
DSU students, Tara Krause and Bryan Muller, and College of Business and Information Systems faculty member, Chris Olson, were recently featured in a Keloland story about social media in the classroom.


Wounded Knee exhibition features DSU professor's work
DSU professor and gallery coordinator, Alan Montgomery, is currently featured in the Interpretations of Wounded Knee 1973 and 1980 exhibition at The Center of Western Studies (CWS) on the campus of Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D.


Unlimited Possibilities earns gold ADDY and best of class awards
Unlimited Possibilities (UP), DSU's student ran advertising agency, was recently awarded a gold ADDY and Best of Class awards at the 43rd South Dakota Advertising Federation's (SDAF) annual ADDY award show.


South Dakota in Nation's Top Five for Electronic Health Record Usage and Growth
According to a recent report by SK&A, a national healthcare data research firm, physician office usage of electronic health records software on a national scale is at 45.6%, up 5% from July 2011 compared to January 2012 .  Out of all states surveyed, South Dakota is ahead of that national trend and now ranks fifth overall with 57.2%.


Lammers, faculty, donors honored at Legends and Legacy Banquet
Madison attorney Jerome B. Lammers was inducted into the Dakota State University Innovators and Influencers Hall of Fame at the annual Legends and Legacy Banquet March 1.


Faculty recognized at Legends and Legacy Banquet
Dakota State University faculty members were recognized at the annual Legends and Legacy Banquet March 1. The four were selected by their peers for Faculty Excellence Awards. Individual donors sponsor the awards, designed to highlight teaching, service, advising, and research.


DSU continues accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission
The Higher Learning Commission's Institutional Action Council recently reaffirmed Dakota State University's institutional accreditation through the Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP) process.  The reaffirmation continues DSU's accreditation until the next reaffirmation cycle in 2018-2019.


LIVE COVEREAGE OF THE DSU MEN'S BASKETBALL GAME
Dakota State University's alumni and fans can listen LIVE FREE AUDIO of DSU's men's basketball action versus No. 5 McPherson (Kan.) on www.streaming.dsu.edu/Athletics-Live.  Voice of the Trojan, Jim Hockett, will go on air at 9:30 p.m. (Central Time) with the DSU men's basketball game tip-off at approximately 9:45 p.m. (Central Time).


Coy and Fideler set record-times to earn top honors at NAIA Indoor Track National Championships
Andy Coy and Matt Fideler of Dakota State University produced their career-best place finishers in the final day of the NAIA Indoor Track and Field National Championship meet Saturday at SPIRE Institute Sports Complex.  Both student-athletes earned NAIA All-American honors.


DSU instructors featured in Young Dakota Artists exhibition
DSU instructors Nathan Edwards and Cassie Marie Edwards are proud to be featured in the Young Dakota Artists exhibition, which features 22 artists from both North and South Dakota, all under the age of 40.


HealthPOINT partners with ClearDATA to provide penetration testing for the healthcare industry
Dakota State University's HealthPOINT has been chosen by ClearDATA Networks, Inc., a leading provider of cloud computing and infrastructure services for the healthcare industry, to provide penetration testing services, an essential security testing component.  The partnership combines HealthPOINT's expertise with ClearDATA's distribution channel and customer base.


Farrell honored as DSU Faculty Legend
Longtime Dakota State University faculty member Tom Farrell is the 2012 Faculty Legend award winner at Dakota State University. Farrell will be recognized at the annual Legends and Legacy Banquet, Thursday, March 1 at the Dakota Prairie Playhouse. 


Knowltons are Philanthropists of the Year
r. Doug and Sharon Knowlton are the 2012 Philanthropists of the Year. They will be recognized at the 7th annual Legends and Legacy Banquet at the Dakota Prairie Playhouse on Thursday, March 1.


Dakota State wins first-ever State Farm A.I.I. Men's Basketball Championships
Dakota State led the majority of the game in the 2012 State Farm Association of Independent Institutions (A.I.I.) men's basketball championship game Sunday evening at DSU Fieldhouse.  The Trojans defeated their former Dakota Athletic Conference rival Jamestown (N.D.) 80-71.  It was the first-ever A.I.I. conference tournament title in their first-year membership of the conference.


Sutton featured speaker for Legends and Legacy
Bob Sutton is the featured speaker for the Legends and Legacy Banquet at Dakota State University March 1. The banquet is an annual DSU event, recognizing donors, philanthropists of the year, current faculty along with the faculty legend, and the induction of a new member of the Innovators and Influencers Hall of Fame.


Black Hills Surgical Hospital first in state to achieve stage 1 meaningful use
HealthPOINT, South Dakota's Regional Extension Center, announced today that Black Hills Surgical Hospital (BHSH) is the state's first hospital to achieve Stage 1 of Meaningful Use.  Meaningful Use is the demonstration and utilization by medical providers of an electronic health record (EHR) that provides increased quality, value and safety to the patient.


DSU health information technology program partners with Good Samaritan Society
Dakota State University's (DSU) Health IT Workforce Development Training Program has been working in partnership with The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society to provide health IT training to their workforce located in 24 states. The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, established in 1922, is the nation's largest not-for-profit provider of senior care and services. The Good Samaritan Society (GSS) -- headquartered in Sioux Falls, S.D. -- serves more than 27,000 people in 240 locations nationwide. Services range from traditional skilled nursing care, senior living apartments, home health, assisted living, hospice care, inpatient and outpatient therapy and specialized care for people with Alzheimer's disease and dementia.


DSU student chosen for national research program
DSU student, Dylon Kiley, was recently accepted into the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Cyberinfrastructure Student Engagement Program.


DSU graduate student team earns top honor from Department of Defense
A graduate team from DSU, supervised by DSU professor Dr. Michael Tu, placed first in the US Graduate Team division of the 2011 Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) international competition.


DSU students place at the American College Theatre Festival
DSU students, Zachary Kantack and Jamie Rueckert, recently received a 2nd place National Design Technology and management award at the regional American College Theatre Festival. The festival was held January 15 through January 21 in Ames, Iowa.


Critical access hospital in South Dakota Achieves stage 1 meaningful use
Faulkton Area Medical Center (FAMC) a 12-bed critical access hospital in Faulkton, S.D., has met Stage 1 Meaningful Use criteria using a certified electronic health record (EHR). By successfully attesting for Stage 1 Meaningful Use with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Faulkton can receive payments from an EHR incentive payment program recently initiated in South Dakota. The incentive payments would help FAMC partially recover costs already incurred to meet federally mandated program guidelines. FAMC is one of the first facilities in South Dakota to achieve this milestone.


Campus Update
From the information we have this morning from the Madison Police Department, there is no indication of any ongoing threat to our students or staff associated with the incident in Madison last night.


Knowlton farewell February 9th
Alumni, friends, community members and the Dakota State University family are invited to a farewell for President Douglas Knowlton and his wife, Sharon, on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012.


Borofsky chosen as interim DSU President
Dr. David B. Borofsky, provost and chief academic officer of Westwood College, has been named the interim president at Dakota State University. Borofsky will begin his duties on the Madison campus in early February and will serve in a temporary capacity through midyear of 2013.


DSU SIFE student organization opens laser tag business
The DSU Students in Free Enterprise group recently took on a new venture that will help them build real-world business experience. After raising money through selling local merchants discount cards and hosting a haunted house, the SIFE organization  purchased equipment to run a laser tag business in Madison called DSU-SIFE Lazertag.


DSU to hold Scrubs Camp March 23rd
Area high school students will have an opportunity to explore a variety of health career options during the DSU 4th Annual Scrubs Camp on Friday, March 23, 2012 at Dakota State University.


Olson creates website on accessible online education
DSU professor Chris Olson recently launched the website, www.accessible-education.com, a free series of self-paced video tutorials on using speech recognition software for online education. Olson and fellow DSU professor, Dr. Jack Walters, were able to produce the series with a Quality of Life grant Olson received from the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation.


Dakota 38 documentary premiering at DSU
Jim Miller will be premiering the documentary, Dakota 38, for the DSU and Madison community on Thursday, Jan. 26 at 7:00 p.m. in the DSU Science Center auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.


"A Taste of Hunger" presentation addresses poverty
Madison, SD., January 12, 2012Is hunger a problem in Madison? Is poverty?


DSU student to present at National Conference on Undergraduate Research
Madison, SD., January 11, 2012 Tosha (Inhofer) Gray, a senior at Dakota State University, will present at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) in Ogden, Utah, at Weber State University on March 29 through March 31.


AAUW Awards Campus Action Project Grant
Dakota State University has been awarded a 2011-12 Campus Action Project (CAP) grant from the American Association of University Women (AAUW) for Drama, Digital Storytelling, and New Media Campus Action Project, which will work to address and prevent sexual harassment at middle and high schools.


DSU faculty and REU student fellow win best paper award
The 23rd International Association of Science and Technology for Development's (IASTED) International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, awarded "Securing epidemic based update protocol for P2P systems" the Best Paper Award at the 2011 conference.  DSU professors, Dr. Michael Tu and Dr. Dianxiang Xu, along with National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for the Undergraduate (REU) student fellow from Northern Kentucky University, Logan Smith, co-authored the paper.


Top 11 news stories for 2011
This year brought many new and exciting events to Dakota State University, here are the top eleven stories for 2011. You can find all of the stories from the past year at http://www.dsu.edu/news/2011/index.aspx


Physician first in SD to be federally validated as meaningful user
HealthPOINT announced today that Dr. Annette Bosworth is the first healthcare provider in South Dakota to be validated, through the use of an Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) toolset,  as a meaningful user of a certified electronic health record (EHR). Bosworth is an internal medicine physician and owns her own practice, Independent Medicine.  Bosworth received assistance from HealthPOINT, South Dakota's Regional Extension Center, and with their help, passed three necessary milestones.  Upon submission of her data to the CMS EHR Incentive Program, Bosworth will be eligible to receive incentive payments for adopting EHR technology through South Dakota's Medicaid program. HealthPOINT, a non-profit group, is designated by the federal government to assist South Dakota health care providers, like Bosworth, to become meaningful users of certified EHR's.


Behrends art on display in Mundt Foundation
Angela Behrends, Dakota State art professor and sculptor, recently installed one of her newest pieces on-campus, which was part of the Take the Day event at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, S.D.  The installation is featured in the stairwell entrance to Mundt Foundation in the Karl E. Mundt Library and Learning Commons.


Johnson and Uher serve as legislative interns
Students from Dakota State University will be serving as technology interns at the South Dakota Legislature during the 2012 session. This is the eighth consecutive year DSU students have served in this capacity. 


Over 8700 South Dakota students on virtual road trip
Health EDventure, a K-12 health curriculum website sponsored by Avera Health, recently developed an online program that takes kids around the state of South Dakota without ever having to leave their classroom.


Dirks family establishes scholarship endowment
The family of Dakota State alumnus Larry Dirks recently set up an endowment in his memory to provide scholarships for student athletes. Harlan J. and Delphia B. Dirks established the Lawrence W. Dirks Memorial Endowed Scholarship with a $150,000 gift. Harlan, a retired Foreign Service Officer, is Larry's brother, and lives in Washington, D.C. with wife Delphia.


DSU to unveil new website
This fall brought a new marketing campaign to DSU with the new slogan, "Technically, we're better." Keeping with the spirit of this branding, Dakota State will be launching a new look for the website, www.dsu.edu this spring semester.