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Wioleta Fedeczko New Director of Writing

English Department News | General | Wednesday February 03, 2010 | By english
Wioleta Fedeczko is the new Director of Writing at the University of South Dakota. She will join us in the summer of 2010. 

Green "Article Linker" replaced in PubMed

USD and Wegner Libraries | General | Tuesday February 02, 2010 |
The Wegner Center Library and USD Libraries in Vermillion have combined their PubMed access. There is no longer a separate link for PubMed (Wegner Partner Access).  Please use the available PubMed link and look for the red    ...

Exhibit - Luminaries in the History of Arts & Scie...

University Libraries | General | Tuesday January 26, 2010 | By ahinseth
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Art Exhibition - Illustration of the 1950's and 19...

University Libraries | General | Friday January 22, 2010 | By ahinseth
Illustration of the 1950's and 1960's: The Propaganda of Economic Patriotism is now on display in the University Libraries Gallery, first floor, January 25 - April 29, 2010.    

Lecture/Colloquium by Emily Haddad Feb. 19

English Department News | Events | Friday January 22, 2010 | By english
Tags: haddad colloquium lecture
Professor Emily Haddad, chair of the USD English Department, will present, "From Individual to Oriental: British Subjects, 1815-1825" in a lecture/colloquium on Friday, February 19, at 3 p.m. The location will be announced shortly. 

Life Skills Class - January 19th

Book Wizards Life Skills Class | General | Wednesday January 20, 2010 |
I have had some difficulty in setting up the new blog site, so we will continue to use this one until I get the other ready to go. When that site is ready to be launched, I will email everyone the new link and will post the link here. Thanks for your...

VLP Slams Moving to MUC

English Department News | Vermillion Literary Project | Thursday January 14, 2010 | By english
Tags: roripaugh slam vlp
For the time being, the Vermillion Literary Project is moving the monthly poetry slam to the "Pit Lounge" in the Muenster University Center at the University of South Dakota.  With the closing of the Coffee Shop Gallery in downtown Vermillion,...

Spring Semester Library Hours

University Libraries | General | Thursday January 14, 2010 | By ahinseth
  Monday - Thursday  7:30 a.m. - 2 a.m.   Friday  7:30 a.m. - 11 p.m.   Saturday  10 a.m. - 11 p.m.   Sunday  10 a.m. - 2 a.m.

January 12th Class

Book Wizards Life Skills Class | General | Wednesday January 13, 2010 |
Tonight, we decided to go to Burger King and bring our food back to the classroom. It was nice to enjoy that time to visit without the interruptions. We all shared a lot of details about the snow and cold the past week. We continue to watch the...

Access to Journals

USD and Wegner Libraries | General | Wednesday January 13, 2010 | By dloftus
Please note changes in Wegner Journal List USD Libraries and Wegner have combined their Journal List.   What this means to you: You will see Vermillion journals and Wegner Center journals listed together.   This lets you...

What is going on

College in your mid 30's?? | General | Tuesday January 12, 2010 |
Since being accepted to USD, I have been more sick than I have in the past 10 years. First two weeks ago I came down with Strep, and then I spent yesterday and 1/2 of today in the hospital with dehydration. No one else in my family (5 others) has been sick. ...

January is National Stalking Awareness Month

SAVVY! | General | Tuesday January 12, 2010 |
How much do you really know about stalking? Follow this link to take a quiz and find out! http://www.stalkingawarenessmonth.org/quiz How did you do?! Want to learn more about stalking? Please visit www.usdsavvy.org or usdoj.gov for more information! ...

New titles available from STAT!Ref

USD and Wegner Libraries | General | Tuesday January 12, 2010 | By dloftus
Tags: stat!ref
Anatomy TV http://ezproxy.usd.edu/login?url=http://online.statref.com//anatomy.aspx?grpalias=SDHSCatv Diagnostic and Statistical Manual - Text Revision (DSM-IV-TRâ„¢, 2000) http://ezproxy.usd.edu/login?url=http://online.statref.com//Document.aspx?grpali...

Exhibition - Nocturne portfolio

University Libraries | General | Monday January 11, 2010 | By ahinseth
Nocturne 16 Interpretations is on exhibit at University Libraries Second Floor Gallery, January 7-April 15, 2010. Gallery Talk: Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:15 p.m. Invitational portfolio exchange curated, designed and assembled by Larry Schuh, assistant...

Outages: EZProxy

University Libraries | General | Saturday January 09, 2010 | By dloftus
Tags: journals databases server exproxy
EZProxy will be offline on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2010.   This will affect access to the majority of the University Libraries electronic resources such as databases, online journals, ebooks and the Research Gateway.    Information about the...

Where am I going

College in your mid 30's?? | General | Friday January 08, 2010 |
With background information set, we can now talk about where I am going with this adventure. Working in restaurants from the age of 14 left me with little time for friends and/or family. I plan to receive my teaching degree as fast as possible, by taking as...

Frame of Mind

College in your mid 30's?? | General | Wednesday January 06, 2010 |
Before November 17th 2009, I never would have imagined that I would actually return to school and persue a second bachelor's degree. But now here I am, registared and awaiting the first day of classes. As the day fast approaches I want to tell you all how I...

Libguides - New Books

University Libraries | General | Wednesday December 30, 2009 | By ahinseth
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December 2009 Faculty Publications

USD Recent Faculty Publications | December 2009 | Tuesday December 29, 2009 |
Bailey, Craig J., and Karen A. Card.. Effective Pedagogical Practices for Online Teaching: Perception of Experienced Instructors. Internet & Higher Education, 12.3/4 (2009): 152-155. Abstract: Institutions have focused on providing faculty with...

Library Winter Break Hours

University Libraries | General | Monday December 21, 2009 | By ahinseth
December 21, 2009 - January 12, 2010 Open Hours Monday - Friday 7:30 am - 5:00 pm Saturday - Sunday Closed     Exceptions   Christmas Eve - Thursday (12/24) Closed...

November 2009 Faculty Publications

USD Recent Faculty Publications | November 2009 | Thursday December 17, 2009 |
Darling, W. G., M. A. Pizzimenti, et al. (2009). Volumetric effects of motor cortex injury on recovery of dexterous movements. Experimental Neurology 220(1): 90-108. Due to the heterogeneous nature of most brain injuries, the contributions of gray...

Altered Book Exhibition featured on OCLC

University Libraries | General | Thursday December 17, 2009 | By ahinseth
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Library Hours - Finals Week Dec. 12- 20

University Libraries | General | Thursday December 10, 2009 | By ahinseth
 Saturday (12/12) 7:30 am - Midnight  Sunday (12/13) 7:30 am - 2:00 am  Monday - Thursday (12/14 -17) 7:30 am - 2:00 am Friday (12/18) 7:30 am - 5:00 pm Commencement - Saturday (12/19) ...

Art Installation - Emergence by Cody Spiegel

University Libraries | General | Wednesday December 09, 2009 | By ahinseth
Emergence by Cody Spiegel is now on display on the 3rd floor, northwest corner.   The installation will be on display until January 31, 2010   Materials: Steel and Paper


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