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Alumnimagazine Fall 2015 AlumniMagazine Fall 2015 Snjezana Dojcinovic, ’08 Product Director, Lei Lou From the basketball court to clothes, an inside look at an international fashion line BHSU athletes set high GPA’s 2015 Swarm Days New BHSU Scholarships Greetings BHSU Alumni, In the last year, I’ve had the honor of serving as President of your alma mater and I thank you for welcoming me and allowing me to be a part of this great University and the community of alumni. When you visit campus and at alumni gatherings, I often hear fond memories about faculty and staff and even fellow students who inspired you along the way. No matter what role or occupation you have chosen since you left the BHSU campus, there’s a tie that connects you with other alumni in your acts, deeds and dreams. There remains a commonality and simplicity to our work that reminds us of the great value in our kindness. Like many of you I wake up every day and remember what a gift I have been given. To have the opportunity to inspire others. Each of us has positively impacted people in ways we may or may not know. That is the joy of our work, and why what we say and how we say it matters so much. The student who attains their degree from BHSU may be the one that saves the planet or a loved one in the future. Our support and genuineness to others does matter. BHSU is truly a unique place that inspires people to reach out into the world to show others a bit of the “Spirit of the Hills,” encouraging us to lead with kindness and make a positive difference in the world. Dr. Tom Jackson, Jr., President, Black Hills State University Interact with us. Read more online. Watch a video. Learn more online. Watch for these icons throughout the magazine for extra online content! Black Hills State University Alumni Magazine - Fall 2015 The Alumni Magazine is published twice a year by the Black Hills State University Alumni Association for alumni and friends of BHSU. Your comments are welcome. Email us at [email protected]. President University Advancement Marketing ӕ Communications Dr. Tom Jackson, Jr. Steve Meeker, Class of ’84 Corinne Hansen, Class of ’85 Tom Wheaton, Class of ’87 Kristen Kilmer, Class of ’99 Alumni Association President Kimberly Talcott Julie Benedict, Class of ’96 Jennifer Jungwirth AAlumniluBHSUmni GGatheringsatherings 1974-1978 Footballootball TeamsTeams ReunionReunion - Saturday,Saturday Oct.Oct 1010 The 1974, ’75, ’76, ’77, and ’78 football teams are invited back for a reunion in honor of their head football coach Gene Schlekeway. For more information about this reunion, please contact Gene Schlekeway at [email protected], [email protected] or (605) 642-6385. For a schedule of upcoming alumni events, visit www.BHSU.edu/Alumni. Alumni & Friends gather in Sioux Falls AlumniAl i & FriendsF i d GatherG th ini CasperC Kory Van Sickle, attended, of Kory & the Nearly 50 BHSU alumni and friends gathered in June at the Hilton Garden Inn in Casper, Wyo. In Fireflies performs during “An Evening addition to campus updates from BHSU President Tom Jackson, Jr., the gathering took place in with the Yellow Jackets” July 11 in conjunction with the College National Finals Rodeo (CNFR). The Yellow Jackets men’s and women’s Sioux Falls. The third annual event teams both qualified for the CNFR for the first time in recent years. raised $15,155 for student-athlete scholarships. The total included a $5,000 match from First Premier Bank. BHSU 50-Year Club inducts members from the Class of 1965 Six graduates from the Class of 1965 gathered on campus during spring commencement to celebrate their induction into the 50-Year Club. Each year, classmates from the 50-year class return to campus to celebrate the anniversary of their graduation. Members from prior graduating classes are also invited to attend a luncheon in honor of the 50-year class. Members from the Class of 1965 in attendance at commencement were (left to right): Chuck Schramm, Sioux Falls; Ruth (Walker) Schmaltz, Rushville, Neb.; Ida Mae (Jones) Rounds, Laramie, Wyo.; Marie I. (Collins) DeKnikker, Cambridge, Idaho; Ruth (Jepson) Wickstrom, Midlothian, Va.; and Everett Hunt, Eagle Butte. Enhance your future. Earn an advanced degree at BHSU. BHSU offers eight master degree programs.. *Business Administration (MBA) Reading Crisis Leadership and Emergency Management *Secondary Education | Project SECONDND Curriculum & Instruction K-12 Project SELECT Integrative Genomics Strategic Leadership * Master degree programs are available at BHSU-Rapid City Learn more at www.BHSU.edu/GraduatePrograms RESEARCH AT BHSU Jensen Ramsey BHSU faculty receive state research grants Faculty at BHSU received two of the eight competitive BHSU faculty, students work with Sinte Johnson state research grants recently Gleska for hands-on biotechnology training Student lands announced by the South Students from Sinte Gleska Tribal College on the Dakota Board of Regents. Rosebud Reservation visited BHSU for a biotechnology traineeship Dr. Katrina Jensen, assistant boot camp as part of a NASA EPSCoR grant. Students funded by CDC professor of chemistry, worked under the mentorship of BHSU faculty and received a $22,880 grant for students learned how to use bioinformatics tools Shaina Johnson’s her project “Development of and DNA extraction procedures using water and soil grandmother taught Copper Photoredox Catalysts samples collected from the Rosebud Reservation. her native remedies on for the Synthesis of Anti- Pictured at the Sanford Lab, from left, are Mikal the Pine Ridge Indian Microbial Compounds.” Bordeaux, Dakota Young, and Karen Moore from Sinte Reservation, sowing seeds Dr. Justin Ramsey, assistant Gleska Tribal College, and Ida Clarke from BHSU. for Johnson’s future in the professor of plant biology, medical field. received a $24,803 grant for Johnson, biology major “Characteristics of triploid Sanford Lab inspires unique at BHSU and member of ivies (F1 Hedera helix x H. the Oglala Lakota Sioux hibernica) and potential for learning at Black Hills State Tribe from Porcupine, development as non-invasive Black Hills State with research. It’s really spent the summer at Johns horticultural varieties.” University students have easy to get involved Hopkins in Baltimore, unique opportunities at with research at BHSU,” the Centers for Disease BHSU collaborates Sanford Underground said Dr. Brianna Mount, Control and Prevention Research Facility located assistant professor of in Atlanta (CDC), and to improve science, at the former Homestake physics research at BHSU. Sanford Medical Center math education Gold Mine in Lead. Adam Gomez, a May in Sioux Falls as part of a BHSU is the closest graduate, interned with public health initiative. Black Hills State University university to Sanford Lab Sanford Lab producing Throughout the received $119,000 in federal and will offer the use of videos for the lab’s new summer program, grant funding to improve the BHSU Underground Visitor’s Center. the Maternal and science and mathematics Campus. Currently, Anna Hafele, Child Health Careers/ instruction in South Dakota BHSU students in integrative genomics Research Initiatives for schools. mass communication, graduate student from Student Enhancement – The Title II grants from the education, genomics, Newell, worked as an Undergraduate Program U.S. Department of Education music and physics education intern. through the Kennedy help university science, participate in activities She helped with Krieger Institute and the math and education faculty with Sanford Lab. workshops and CDC, Johnson received to work with teachers and “I think one of the most educational activities for training on conducting administrators from high- important experiences as students connecting the community-based need school systems to create a student in college is the activities with the lab’s research to address professional development opportunity to engage experiments. public health prevention activities. The South Dakota and disease treatment, Board of Regents administers Watch BHSU students talk about how Sanford Lab knowledge she plans to the federal grant funds. inspires them at www.youtube.com/BlackHillsState. use to improve healthcare. 2 SCHOLARSHIP NEWS New scholarships available at BHSU Dual Credit Scholarship Child of alumni Scholarship South Dakota high school students Black Hills State University offers that have completed Dual Credit in-state tuition for children of alumni. courses through BHSU and enroll “At BHSU we have a network of over at BHSU will earn the Early Scholar Offering 17,000 alums. This new program is an Incentive Scholarship, an award of excellent opportunity for B-H alumni up to $7,500. The award is based on students living outside South Dakota to send the number of BHSU college credits their children to BHSU knowing they completed while in high school. The scholarships is will have an exceptional educational new scholarship will be awarded experience,” said BHSU President Tom beginning this fall. just one more Jackson, Jr. Alumni are encouraged to share their Northern Hills Jacket way we can BHSU experience with their children Incentive Scholarship and apply for the scholarship if they plan to attend BHSU. The Northern Hills Jacket Incentive show our future Scholarship, of up to $4,000 (over four Presidential medallion Scholarship years), is awarded based on student’s Yellow Jackets The Presidential Medallion involvement in We The People: The Scholarship, ranging between $4,000 Citizen and the Constitution statewide that anything is and $16,000 (over four years) is based civic education program, high school on an individual’s demonstrated record honors, and/or high school debate. possible at BHSU. of exceptional academic ability as well All students who attend eligible high as their service, intellectual curiosity schools and have been involved with - BEth Oaks, and commitment to community. the listed student organizations will be eligible for these scholarships. ”director of admissions Learn more at www.BHSU.edu/Scholarships 3 BHSU IN THE NEWS Spotlight Michael Shann, ’70, received an honorary Doctor of Public Service degree during the BHSU 2015 spring commencement ceremony in May.
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