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A new project from South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State University's College of Natural Sciences looks to improve the soybean plant's ability to naturally fix nitrogen, reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers.

Saikat Basu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State University's Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering, has received a supplemental National Science Foundation grant to establish a new collaboration Simon Jochems, assistant professor of infectious diseases at the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands.

Researchers in South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State University's School of Design, in cooperation with SDSU Extension, are evaluating how South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã residents use and value the state's coveted water resources through a region-wide survey.

Rachel Short and Gazala Ameen, two assistant professors in South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State University's College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences, have each received one of the National Science Foundation's most prestigious grants for early career faculty to pursue biology research projects.

A new South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State University project aims to give Native American students interested in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in scientific research and discovery.

Adam Devlin, a recent master’s graduate in the South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State University Department of Agronomy, Horticulture and Plant Science, worked on a collaborative project with faculty in the School of Design to bring awareness to the hardships of South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã farmers and the effects of soil composition in various subjects.

South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State University's Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering hosted industry professionals, higher education leaders, researchers and policymakers at the 2024 IEEE-USA IWRC à£à£Ö±²¥Ðãs to bridge the gap between research and commercially viable products in light of the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act.

South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State University's Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering has entered into a partnership with Maguire Iron to develop a computer-based program to efficiently design and estimate the cost of water towers.

South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State University has been tapped by the National Science Foundation to lead a statewide project that will build research capacity focused on biological nitrogen fixation and its applications in sustainable agriculture and industry.

David C. Earnest, the Odeen-Swanson Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã, has been named dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State University. Earnest was selected following a national search and will begin working on the SDSU campus July 8.