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Individual researchers supported by start-up grants 

Dakota State University professors are the recipients of research grants, South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds has announced. The grants are part of the Governor’s 2010 Initiative for economic development.  Faculty members from South Dakota School of Mines, South Dakota State University, and University of South Dakota also received grants.

This is the third year the state has awarded “seed grants” as part of Gov. Rounds’ strategy to build a higher level of competitive research at the state’s public universities. The grants support faculty researchers as they develop research programs to become more competitive for external grants and contracts. It is also opens up new opportunities for faculty members to develop new ideas with commercial potential. The grants are awarded through a competition which this year focused on research projects that have the potential to develop into commercial applications. 

Recipients of the 2007 Individual Research Seed Grants from Dakota State University, their college, project titles, and grant amounts included:

• Sreekanth Malladi, College of Business and Information Systems – “Researching cryptographic protocol security under new and complex scenarios,” $50,226.
• Barbara Szczerbinska, College of Arts and Natural Sciences – “Theoretical study of neutrino-nucleus reactions relevant to solar, atmospheric and long baseline neutrino experiments,” $40,658.
• Steven Graham, College of Business and Information Systems – “Mapping among Disparate Ontologies for Physics Education,” $52,370.