Congratulation to Shawn's new teaching position at USD. See you around! August 2025
Gopala, Zach, and Anika successfully defended their MS theses on July 28th, August 8th, and August 11th, 2025, respectively, and received their MS degrees in August 2025. Anika will go for a industry job while Gopala and Zach continue their PhD study at USD. Congratulation! August 2025.
Shawn successfully defended his Ph. D. Dissertation on April 12, 2024 and received his Ph. D. in May 2024. He will continue her professional development as a postdoctoral researcher at USD. Congratulation! May 2024.
Levi successfully defended his MS thesis on October 3, 2023 and received his MS degree in December 2023. He will continue his PhD study at USD. Congratulation! October 2023.
Erin successfully defended her MS thesis on July 31, 2023 and received her MS degree in August 2023. Best wishes to her pharmacy study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Congratulation! August 2023.
Yifeng successfully defended his Ph.D. Dissertation on August 9, 2021 and received his Ph. D. degree in August 2021. He will continue his research as a postdoctoral researcher at USD. Congratulation! August 2021.
Shawn successfully defended his MS thesis and received the MS degree from USD in May 2021. He will continue his doctoral program at USD. Congratulation! May 2021.
Lily successfully defended her Ph. D. Dissertation on July 28, 2017 and received her Ph. D. in August 2017. She will continue her professional development as a postdoctoral researcher at USD. Congratulation! August 2017.
Jackie received the 1st place poster award in 2017 South Dakota Undergraduate Research Symposium, Pierre South Dakota. Congratulation! August 2017.
Lily successfully defended her MS thesis and received the MS degree from USD in May 2015. She will continue her doctoral program at USD. Congratulation! May 2015.
Nate successfully defended his Ph. D. Dissertation on December 5, 2014 and received his Ph. D. in May 2015. He will continue his professional development as a postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala University in Sweden. Congratulation! May 2015.
Chao successfully defended his Ph. D. Dissertation on April 17, 2014 and received his Ph. D. in May 2014. He will continue his professional development as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of New Mexico. Congratulation! May 2014.
Ying successfully defended her Ph. D. Dissertation on June 5, 2013 and will receive her Ph. D. in August 2013. She will continue her professional development as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago. Congratulation! June 2013.
Tammy received the 2013-2014 SD NASA Space Grant student stipend awards. Congratulation! June 2013.
Ying has published a cover story on Nanoscale. Congratulation! November 2012.
Katie successfully defended her Honors thesis on March 29, 2012 and will receive her BS degree in May 2012. She will continue her study at KCUBM. Congratulation! April 2012.
Nate successfully defended his MS thesis and received the MS degree from USD in December 2011. He will continue his doctoral program at USD. Congratulation! December 2011.
Chao successfully defended his MS thesis and received the MS degree from USD in August 2011. He will continue his doctoral program at USD. Congratulation! August 2011.
Alfred successfully defended his MS thesis in April and received the MS degree from USD in May 2011. Congratulation! May 7, 2011.
Ying's proposal was funded by the Sigma-Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research program. Congratulation! April 7, 2011
Ying successfully defended her MS thesis and received the MS degree from USD in December 2010. Congratulation! Dec. 20, 2010.
Nate and Mindy received the 2010-2011 SD NASA Space Grant student stipend awards. Congratulation! Dec. 10, 2010.
Congratulation on our recent grant from NASA EPSCoR Program. June 15, 2010.
Congratulation Nate on his research stipend from the NASA South Dakota Space Grant Consortium. Dec. 3, 2009.