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Young people with an interest in swine learned more about swine production and career opportunities at the second annual South ��ֱ���� Swine Summit on June 13, presented at South ��ֱ���� State University by SDSU Extension and the South ��ֱ���� Pork Producers Council.

By the narrowest of margins — two points out of more than 2,000 — the SDSU Quarter Scale Tractor Team came up just short of winning its third consecutive national title. Competing at the 27th annual International Quarter-Scale Tractor Student Design Competition at the Expo Gardens Fairgrounds in Peoria, Illinois, the South ��ֱ���� State University team placed third out of 21 teams.

The annual South ��ֱ���� State University Celebration of Faculty Excellence recognized 30 faculty members, researchers and scientists Tuesday. The event honors faculty members in the university's colleges for outstanding research, teaching and service.

South ��ֱ���� State University researcher Srinivas Janaswamy has demonstrated how switchgrass can be utilized to create bioplastics.

A new study from Srinivas Janaswamy has revealed how spent coffee grounds can be made into biodegradable films—material that could one day replace plastics.

Over the past two decades, the United States has been importing more and more avocados each year, underlining a growing obsession with the nutrient-dense fruit. Simultaneously, the U.S. and the rest of the world have been dealing with a growing environmental crisis spurred on by an overreliance on plastic. Could avocados — specifically avocado peels — provide a potential solution?

Leadership at USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) have responded to a request from National Bison Association to find a new path for relief for bison producers affected by Mycoplasma infection and mortality. In previous years, the FSA considered Mycoplasma to be a secondary infection in bison, which prevented producers from qualifying for reimbursement for death losses under the agency’s Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP).

Anand honored for teaching excellence. Anand received the North Central Region for 2021 Excellence in College and University Teaching ��ֱ����s for Food and Agricultural Sciences by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. He receives $2,000 to be used for improving teaching at SDSU.

A new laboratory will bring researchers from South ��ֱ���� State University and South ��ֱ���� Mines together with industry partners to transition bench-scale bioprocessing and bioproducts research to the marketplace.

Associate professor Guanghui Hua, professor Chris Schmit and lecturer Kyungnan “Karen” Min are evaluating the efficiency of fresh and weathered woodchips at removing nitrates from tile drainage water.