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Dakota State University Spring 2020 Magazine DAKOTA STATE Spring 2020 MAGAZINE FOR OUR ALUMNI, PARENTS, AND FRIENDS PARENTS, OURALUMNI, FOR DEAR FRIENDS AND FELLOW SUPPORTERS OF DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY Welcome to our spring 2020 magazine. Tis issue contains many In addition, in December 2019 when the threat I understand that right now extroverts are struggling examples of one of DSU’s greatest assets and strengths – the people of the new coronavirus came on the world with the emotional deprivation of reduced human of the extended DSU community. It is especially apropos for the time scene, DSU’s administration began working on interaction, and introverts are enjoying the solace in which we suddenly fnd ourselves, the onslaught of the new novel contingency planning if the crisis should spread they need to recharge. Personally, I am basking in coronavirus and the illness COVID-19. to the U.S. and South Dakota. In January 2020, appreciation at the strength, ingenuity, and positive as information grew about the deadly impact atitude of the people of Dakota State University, It seems as though almost overnight we went from the distant sounds of widespread COVID-19 illness, we moved to once again demonstrated in our shared, highly of a mild threat, to the loud drumming of a dangerous atack on our working intensely on detailed plans for a potential successful response to this present crisis. We will get doorstep. Trough it all, the people of our extended DSU community – transition to operating fully online. When the through this, and we will all be stronger for it on the the students, faculty, staf, City of Madison, Lake County, State of South executive orders came to shif, DSU was able to other side. As Robert Schuller, the American writer, Dakota, and our worldwide network of alumni and supporters – have move quickly and seamlessly to online operations. speaker, and pastor once said, “Tough times never come together in impressive and innovative ways to keep DSU people last, but tough people do.” I am so very grateful to be safe and the university moving forward. Tanks to energetic and skilled contributions part of this amazing #DSUStrong! community of by people across the university, I am happy to tough people. As we go to print with this magazine, we have come through some report that we have successfully transitioned all of tumultuous weeks. Tis novel coronavirus spreads aggressively through our essential activities to online delivery, and the person-to-person contact. Te innumerable in-person interactions of a university has stayed up and running and moving busy university campus, especially students living together in university forward through all of this shif. Best wishes for safety and health for you and yours, residence halls, was a highly dangerous situation. South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem gave the order in March for all state employees Tis COVID-19 pandemic is continuing to march (all DSU faculty and staf are state employees) to move to working across the United States, creating enormous from home if at all possible. DSU faculty and staf have done so. Te personal, professional, social, and economic South Dakota Board of Regents made the decision to have the regental disruption. Tis batle with an unseen, initially silent universities move to all online classes through the end of this semester. but deadly enemy is unlike anything I believe any of All but a very few of our residential students have moved back home or us has previously experienced. I believe we all have a President José-Marie Grifths, Ph.D. to other safer environments where they can practice the isolation and new appreciation for our shared human and societal Dakota State University social distancing critical to stemming the tide of COVID-19 infections. vulnerability to the devastating impacts of a highly- contagious health threat. At the same time, it has While this transition to remote work certainly required innovation also brought into stark focus the responsibility and and fexibility from DSU faculty and staf, Dakota State was far beter requirement for each of us to do everything we can prepared for the move than most universities across the country. DSU’s to not only protect ourselves but also our families tech/cyber-intensive environment meant that we already had in place and loved ones, our communities, and our country. the resources and tools people needed to continue their work from of- LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT THE FROM LETTER campus locations, generally their individual homes. DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY 2 3 Dakota State University (DSU) in Madison, S.D. offers undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral programs through its Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business and Information Systems, Computer and Cyber Sciences, and Education. Visit dsu.edu. FEATURES 6 DSU Family Making an Impact 32 News Around Campus 38 Advancing the Mission 42 Trojan Athletics 50 Class Notes MAGAZINE CONTRIBUTORS Marketing & Communications Institutional Advancement Jen Burris, Strategic Communications Coordinator Mark Millage, Vice President Kelli Koepsell, Director of Marketing & Communications Carrie Slaathaug, Director of Alumni & Family Engagement Jena Martin ‘05, Production Center Coordinator Jona Schmidt, Director of Major & Planned Gifts Brittni Shoup-Owens ‘17, Content Writer Athletics Shannon Steffke, Marketing & Branding Coordinator Nick Huntimer ’05, Sports Information Director Andrea Tanner, Graphic Designer Jane Utecht, Strategic Communications Coordinator President’s Office Kathleen McClatchey, Assistant to the President for Strategic Projects Dakota State Magazine is published by the DSU Send address updates and class notes to: Marketing and Communications Department and [email protected] or distributed at no cost to over 14,000 alumni, donors, DSU Alumni Office and friends. 820 N Washington Ave Madison SD 57042 TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTENTS OF TABLE 4 5 TO WATCH IN 20 2020 ANDREW BEHRENS Instructor of Information Systems KATIE ANDERSON College of Business & Information Systems Assistant Professor of Reading and AS DAKOTA STATE embarks on the Soaring ‘20s, Language Arts Andrew Behrens earned his undergraduate we are highlighting 20 people of DSU to watch in 2020. College of Arts & Sciences degree in information systems at DSU, then he These students, staff, and faculty members were worked for three years at the hospital where he Katie Anderson started her teaching previously interned. During that time, he earned selected by each college’s dean for their efforts in and career in 2004 at a middle school in Rapid his master’s degree through DSU in health outside the classroom. Read on to learn about these City, South Dakota. While teaching, she informatics and information management. earned her master’s degree in curriculum outstanding members of our DSU family. instruction and in 2013, she was named While working at the hospital, Behrens mentored South Dakota Teacher of the Year. interns and realized he wanted to become an instructor. He was able to apply for an instructor Not long after, she began working at DSU position at DSU and is now pursuing his Ph.D. in in 2014. Anderson’s focus in her courses information systems while teaching. is how to teach reading. All courses have some form of fieldwork where a student is He enjoys teaching. “It’s kind of fun when you see matched with a teacher in the field to see that lightbulb click on, as cliché as it sounds,” he practices in real life. shared. He also enjoys watching them grow as students and go on to do exciting things. Anderson’s goal in the classroom is that her students feel prepared. “When they get done Behrens’ goals include becoming a professor with my coursework and student teaching after completing his Ph.D. and expanding and and they start teaching, I want them to feel continuing his research in healthcare. confident and comfortable teaching the content area that I trained them in, whether that’s reading in general, or assessment in general.” She also hopes to continue working with other faculty to offer professional development for teachers across the region. DSU FAMILY MAKING AN IMPACT IMPACT AN MAKING FAMILY DSU 6 7 GRACE CROOK Exercise Science Hometown: Gettysburg, S.D. DR. MICHAEL GAYLOR Associate Research Professor of Chemistry Grace Crook was deeply involved with track College of Arts & Sciences and field in high school, so when looking at colleges she knew she wanted to attend one Dr. Michael Gaylor did not always see a future for that gave her the opportunity to continue ELLIC GANT himself as a chemist. In fact, he started out as a running. Game Design music major and while he ended up changing his Hometown: Sioux City, Iowa major to biology, later he pursued his rock star DR. PETER HOESING With an initial interest in athletic training, dreams of touring as a drummer. Director of Sponsored Programs the exercise science program was the right Ellic Gant may only be a freshman in the Research & Economic Development path for Crook. game design program, but he’s already Now Gaylor teaches chemistry and conducts created a free game, “Pixel Planet,” that has research at DSU. His research with students Dr. Peter Hoesing’s background is in music and Crook spent two years on the track team, over 3,000 user accounts. focuses on astrobiology, or life in the universe. cultural anthropology, but a successful skillset before stopping due to injuries. She then in grant writing led him to join DSU as director joined the Exercise Science Club, which In addition to game design, Gant is “Meteorites contain chemical compounds that, of sponsored programs with DSU Research and encourages networking at conferences, and interested in video production, music in certain environments, undergo chemical Economic Development. began working as a personal trainer at the creation, and playing games. In his short reactions that produce molecules essential for Community Center.
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