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Research and Creative Scholarship Opportunities
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Research and creative scholarship are an integral part of The University’s mission and an important facet of most graduate education programs. Faculty and students pursue research in virtually all academic departments on campus, and in many cases, research or creative scholarship is a required portion of most graduate programs. In addition, there are many interdisciplinary and mission-oriented institutes on campus that carry out research. Graduate students can become involved in the research occurring in the institutes and centers listed in the following section.
Graduate students generally pursue research in collaboration with a faculty advisor housed in the student’s major department. Academic credit is given for research, which contributes to the thesis or dissertation the student prepares as part of his/her Graduate Program of Study.
The mission of the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP, http://www.usd.edu/orsp) is to support and expand competitive research and creative scholarship at USD. The ORSP achieves this mission through several activities and services including the Office of Human Subjects Protection, pre- and post-award support, internal grants programs, and state, regional, and federal relations in the context of competitive research development. Facilities at that are available for student research include computer labs on campus housed in both central locations and within certain departments, scientific instrumentation, fine arts facilities, field equipment, the IRB, and other specialized resources are available for students in the appropriate departments. A listing of active sponsored research projects is available at http://www.usd.edu/research/research-and-sponsored-programs/active-awards.cfm as are overviews of signature U research projects(http://www.usd.edu/research/research-and-sponsored-programs/signature-research-programs.cfm) and descriptions of U research centers (http://www.usd.edu/research/research-and-sponsored-programs/research-centers.cfm)
Research Funding & Fellowships
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Prospective graduate students are encouraged to investigate opportunities for research that are available to them in the discipline of their choice. Many students find financial support in the form of Graduate Research Assistantships, which are funded through a combination of University funds and research grants obtained by faculty. Students may also apply for graduate fellowships operated by a number of federal funding agencies.
Graduate Student Research Grants are also available to students on a competitive basis. Through these grants, graduate students can receive up to $500 to support their research projects. The call for proposals is typically held in the fall semester. For more information, consult information in the USD Graduate and Professional Student listserv or contact the Graduate School.
Research Facilities and Centers
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America’s National Music Museum
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Andre P. Larson, Director
605-677-5306
Email: smm@usd.edu
http://www.usd.edu/nmm
America’s National Music Museum is the premier institution of its kind in the world. It is housed in a carefully restored Carnegie library building on the campus of The University of South Dakota. The NMM’s ever-growing collections of more than 13,500 American, European, and non-Western instruments are the most inclusive in the world, rivaled only by similar institutions in such cultural centers as Berlin, Paris, Oxford, Rome, and Vienna. Included are many of the earliest, best preserved, and historically most important musical instruments known to survive, dating from the 16th century to the present. All reflect the ageless, universal power of human ingenuity and imagination. Concerts are presented amid the intimacy and superb acoustics of the Arne B. Larson Concert Hall, and popular brown bag lunch programs explore other facets of the NMM’s diverse collections. Admission to the NMM is free and tours are available.
Archaeology Laboratory
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Brian Molyneaux, Ph.D., Director
East Hall Basement
605-677-5402
Email: moly@usd.edu
http://www.usd.edu/anthropology
The Archaeology Laboratory studies the ancient human past of South Dakota and neighboring regions. Laboratories, curative facilities, and a specialized library occupy the entire basement and part of the first floor of East Hall, which is located on the Vermillion campus. A wet lab and field storage lockers occupy the basement of a nearby building. The Archaeology Laboratories conducts cultural resources management projects as its primary activity. This involves carrying out surveys for archaeological and other important cultural resources for agencies that are required by law to see that cultural heritage is not destroyed by their actions. Beyond surveys, the Archaeology Laboratory conducts test excavations and full excavations where necessary. The Archaeology Laboratory Educational programs have been well received with special recognition by the South Dakota Historical Society and the World Archaeological Congress.
Business Research Bureau
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Wade Druin, Director
Patterson Hall, Room 132
605-677-5287
Email: wdruin@usd.edu
http://www.usd.edu/business/
The Business Research Bureau is a research organization located within the School of Business, which serves federal, state, and local governments, private business, educational institutions, individuals, and nonprofit groups. The services that the Business Research Bureau provides include: business, economic, and social research; developing and maintaining databases critical to decision making in business and economics; and finally, designing, developing, and maintaining computer system programs.
Disaster Mental Health Institute
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Gerard A. Jacobs, Ph.D., Director
South Dakota Union 114
605-677-6604 or 800-522-9684
Email: dmhi@usd.edu
http://www.usd.edu/dmhi/
The Disaster Mental Health Institute is a South Dakota Board of Regents Center of Excellence. The mission of the Disaster Mental Health Institute (DMHI) is the promotion, development, and application of both practice and research in disaster psychology . The DMHI offers a Doctoral Specialty Track in Clinical/Disaster Psychology within the APA-accredited USD doctoral Clinical Psychology Training Program. Students in the specialty track have exceptional training opportunities both nationally and internationally. The DMHI also offers a Graduate Certificate in Disaster Mental Health for existing licensed mental health professionals and graduate students in mental health programs other than the USD Clinical Psychology Training Program. DMHI faculty are engaged in cutting-edge research and disaster preparedness and response, both in the United States and around the world, and they bring that knowledge and experience into the classroom. Students learn directly from faculty who are shaping the future of the field worldwide.
Farber Center for Civic Leadership
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William D. Richardson, Director
Elizabeth T. Smith, Associate Director
Matthew R. Fairholm, Director of Leadership Studies
William Anderson, Director of Government Research Bureau
Cheryl Hovorka, Program Assistant
233A Dakota Hall
Phone: (605) 677-5702
Email: chovorka@usd.edu
http://www.usd.edu/ctrcivic/
The South Dakota Board of Regents established the W. O. Farber Center for Civic Leadership in the fall of 1997, as a Center of Excellence. The Center is housed within the Department of Political Science and offers an undergraduate minor in Civic Leadership Studies. The term “civic” was chosen to emphasize that the Center’s focus is not narrowly governmental but rather broadly inclusive of all aspects of life together as citizens of our community, state, nation, and world. The mission of the Center is to prepare students and help communities to face difficult public problems in a shared manner consistent with constitutional values.
The W.O. Farber Center for Civic Leadership was founded on the belief that there is leadership within every person. Its initiative stresses the importance of principled leadership based on core values and emphasizes leadership as a process, not a position. Viewed in this way, leadership requires responsible action of people in every part of society⬔not simply those in formal leadership roles. The Center fosters responsible and ethical leadership through education, service, and scholarship in the public interest. Graduate students may develop a specialization in Leadership Studies as part of their MPA or MA programs (see http://www.usd.edu/farbercenter).
Freedom Forum’s Al Neuharth Media Center
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Jack Marsh, Freedom Forum Vice President/Diversity Programs
605-677-6315
Email: jmarsh@freedomforum.org
The Al Neuharth Media Center was dedicated in 2003. It houses Freedom Forum operations as well as the media and journalism organizations on campus, including South Dakota Public Broadcasting, USD’s Department of Contemporary Media and Journalism, The Volante, which Al Neuharth edited as a student, campus radio station KAOR and television station KYOT. The Freedom Forum’s South Dakota operations focus on journalism education, the First Amendment and diversity in newsroom staffing, with an emphasis on American Indians. The Freedom Forum runs the annual American Indian Journalism Institute at USD, funds the Native American Journalism Career Conference at Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills, and promotes excellence in journalism through teaching, conferences, scholarships and internships. Neuharth is a South Dakota native, a 1950 USD graduate, founder of USA TODAY and founder of the Freedom Forum, a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. In 1988, the Freedom Forum established the Al Neuharth journalism and scholarship program at USD.
Government Research Bureau
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William D. Anderson, Ph.D., Director
233C Dakota Hall
605-677-5708
Email: William.Anderson@usd.edu
http://www.usd.edu/grb
The Mission of the Government Research Bureau is to engage in research on public policy and administration issues for all levels of government. The GRB focuses its attention on advanced methodological approaches to solving challenging public policy problems and draws on a variety of student and faculty contributors to conduct research for its clients.
ID Weeks & Lommen Libraries
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ID Weeks Library 605-677-5371
Lommen Health Sciences Library 605-677-5348
Email: weeksref@usd.edu; webmed@usd.edu
http://www.usd.edu/library
The I.D. Weeks and Lommen Health Sciences Libraries offer academic resources and services that are integral to the mission of The University. The library faculty works closely with The University faculty in support of research and classroom teaching. An emphasis on information literacy instruction complements The University’s goal to provide students with life-long learning skills. The Library was expanded and remodeled in 1993/94 increasing its total size by 60,000 square feet to a total 120,000 square feet. The new building included space for the Lommen Health Sciences Library. A glass-enclosed link with convenient access to the Coyote Student Center houses a computer laboratory. The Library has seating for 860 people in carrel, table, and lounge settings as well as 85 computer terminals for student and faculty use. Twenty-five of these computers are located in a classroom used for bibliographic and Internet instruction. The library is open 92 hours per week with extended hours during test and finals week.
University Libraries contain nationally recognized resources on Native Americans; significant art and humanities collections; in-depth K-12 education materials; extensive 19th century Western Americana, and primary historical materials such as senatorial papers, Wounded Knee massacre and siege materials housed in the special collections department. A majority of the 647,981 bound book and journal volumes as well as approximately 739,900 microforms, 302,900 government documents, and 15,075 audiovisual items are found in the I.D. Weeks Library, The I.D. Weeks and Health Sciences Libraries together subscribe to just under 2,000 print periodicals and newspapers. Increasingly journals are purchased as electronic subscriptions only. The libraries currently have access to over 25,000 online journals. Online journal holdings range from the complete archive, back to the inception of a journal title, to more limited coverage of current years. Tools like A to Z Journals and JADe, found on Library web resources pages, help users determine quickly whether an article is available for immediate online access. The automated borrowing program, ILLiad, permits users to easily request materials not available in USD Libraries. The online catalog, electronic holdings and nearly 200 databases are available 24 hours a day from any campus or home computer connected to the campus network. Most electronic resources are accessible from any geographic location provided the user has a current Internet account at USD and a local network connection.
Institute of American Indian Studies
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Dakota Hall 12
605-677-5209
Email: iais@usd.edu
http://www.usd.edu/iais
Established in 1955, the Institute of American Indian Studies develops and promotes American Indian-related projects, activities, and programs at The University of South Dakota in collaboration with the Office of Student Life, TRIO Programs, the Native American Cultural Center, the Tiospaye Student Council, USD Program Council, the Oscar Howe Memorial Association, and others. These projects include campus programs to promote education and awareness of American Indian art, culture, issues, and problems; advising and mentoring; recruitment and retention of American Indian students, faculty, and staff; and, strengthening relations with tribes, tribal colleges, and other appropriate American Indian organizations in the state and region. The Institute provides administrative support, coordination, and advising for the Department of American Indian Studies.
The Institute also provides administrative support and coordination for the American Indian Alumni Chapter of the USD Alumni Association in association with the USD Alumni Office. The goals of the Alumni Chapter are to identify, involve, and promote interest in scholarships and other support from American Indian graduates and alumni to assist needs of currently enrolled Indian students by building a base for connections among Indian graduates, alumni, and current faculty, staff, and students. The Institute houses the Dr. Joseph H. Cash Memorial Library that contains books, photographs, films, and videos on North American frontier history with special emphases on American Indians, the mining industry, and western literature. The Collection is located in one of the Institute’s offices, Dakota Hall 12. The Collection is available for in-house use by students, faculty, and researchers. The Institute also houses and administers the South Dakota Oral History Center, an archive of over 5,500 recorded interviews. Refer to additional information later in this section.
McKusick Law Library
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John F. Hagemann, J.D., Director
Law School
605-677-5259
Email: jhageman@usd.edu
http://www.usd.edu/lawlib
Located on all three floors of the east end of the Law School building, the McKusick Law Library is the largest law library in South Dakota, containing more than 200,000 volumes of primary and secondary legal materials. It also has a number of electronic databases, most of which, because of licensing agreements, are restricted to use by law students and faculty members. Its collection of books is open to the public, but most of the volumes do not circulate. The particular strengths of the collection are in Indian Law, Natural Resources Law, and Health Law. The students and faculty members of the Law School are the law library’s primary clientele, but it serves The University ‘s academic community, the State Bar, and all the citizens of South Dakota. Its location in the southeastern corner of the state also attracts patrons from Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska.
Missouri River Institute
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Direct inquiries to:
Tim Cowman
Department of Earth Science and the SD Geological Survey
605-677-6151
Email: tim.cowman@usd.edu
http://www.usd.edu/mri
USD established the Missouri River Institute in 1999 to focus the many distinct research initiatives already underway on the river basin. The Institute’s mission is to promote scholarly research, education, and public awareness related to the natural and cultural resources of the Missouri River basin. As USD is near the last remaining unmodified portion of the Missouri River downstream of the dams, a 59-mile section of river from Gavin’s Point Dam to Ponca State Park, Nebraska, it is an ideal location to house the Institute. The campus is within a mile of the Missouri floodplain, making USD the only major research university capable of integrating river research within campus life on a daily basis. Under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the federal government declared this particular section the Missouri National Recreational River in 1978. It therefore provides a natural field laboratory for research, teaching and outreach activities. The Missouri National Recreational River National Resource and Education Center is just 30 miles from campus at Ponca State Park and is available use by The University community. The Missouri River Institute gives students a unique opportunity to get involved directly in the Missouri River’s natural and cultural heritage. Direct inquires about research opportunities to the Chairperson of the Department of Biology, the Vice President for Research, the Student Engagement Action Coordinator, or to individual faculty mentors.
Sanford Research/USD
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M. Benjamin Perryman, Ph.D., Director
1100 East 21st St. - Seventh Floor
Sioux Falls, SD 57105
605-328-1300
Fax: 605-328-1301
Email: sharon.hoon@usd.edu
http://www.sanfordresearch-usd.org
Sanford Research/USD is a non-profit organization formed by the Sanford Hospitals & Health System and Sanford School of Medicine of The University of South Dakota. Sanford Research/USD is dedicated to research excellence through the work of its Cardiovascular Research Institute, Signal Transduction Institute, Cancer Biology Institute, Health Disparities Institute, and Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases Institute. Central to the success of the Foundation are its thirteen principal scientists, eight research staff scientists and the approximately 60 research staff, students, and administrative personnel who support them. Sanford Research/USD occupies a total of 22,000 sq. feet at two sites in the Sioux Falls community. These facilities are virtually new and include the most modern equipment that supports several competitive research programs.
South Dakota Oral History Center
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Dakota Hall 12
605-677-5209
http://www.usd.edu/arts-and-sciences/american-indian-studies/oral-history-center.cfm
The South Dakota Oral History Center houses two major collections of audio interviews relating to South Dakota history and to American Indian experiences. The American Indian Research Project is composed of approximately 2,300 tapes addressing experiences of Dakota/Lakota/Nakota peoples and other tribes of the Northern Plains. Topics range from ancient legends and traditional religious beliefs to recent political and social views reflecting the American Indian way of life. The South Dakota Oral History Project contains almost 3,500 recorded interviews covering myriad aspects in South Dakota history. Interviews in both projects were collected beginning in the 1960s, and oral history projects continue today. A valuable resource for students and researchers, the Center, with its 5,800 interviews, is the largest collection of its kind in the country and is located in Room, 12 Dakota Hall. Appointments are appreciated and can be made by calling or emailing the Center.
Wegner Health Science Information Center
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Carolyn Warmann, Director
1400 West 22nd St.
Sioux Falls, SD 57105
605-357-1400
Fax: 605-357-1490
Toll Free: 1-800-521-2987
Email: wegner@usd.edu
http://www.usd.edu/library/
http://www.usd.edu/library/wegner.cfm
The Wegner Center opened in January 1998 and is named in honor of Dr. Karl and Mary Jo Wegner. As Dean of the USD School of Medicine, Dr. Wegner guided the USD Medical School as it evolved from a two-year medical school to a four-year degree granting medical school. The Wegner Center is a medical library serving the following organizations and programs: Center for Disabilities, Center for Ethics and Caring, Children’s Care Hospital & School, Community HealthCare Association of the Dakotas, Mount Marty College Nurse Anesthesia Program, Sanford School of Medicine USD, Sanford USD Medical Center, SDSU College of Nursing, SDSU College of Pharmacy, Sioux Falls VA Medical & Regional Office Center and USD Department of Nursing.
Conceived as a clinical resource, the Wegner Center’s mission is to serve the partners by providing quality health science information for health care practice, education, and research. The Wegner Center is a three-level 22,000 square foot facility adjacent to the Sanford School of Medicine USD and the University Physicians Clinic. The Wegner Center offers space for 100,000 volumes and 1,000 journal subscriptions. The Wegner Center is open to the public.
1110 Ratingen St.
Vermillion, S.D. 57069
605- 677-5228
Email: whover@usd.edu
http://www.whovermuseum.org/
The mission of the W. H. Over Museum operated by a privatized non-profit, all volunteer organization, is to collect, preserve, document, exhibit, research, study, and interpret objects relating to natural and cultural history, primarily in South Dakota; and to provide interpretive exhibitions, educational programs, publications and other appropriate means of conveying an understanding and appreciation of this region. |
