2020

March - December

• COVID-19... 'Nuff Said.
• We had conferences planned in San Diego (Experimental Biology), Washington DC (Society for Neuroscience) and Dubrovnik Croatia (Neural Control of Movement). There's always next year,right?     

May 2020

• Dr. Baugh is pleased to step into the role of Chair of the USD's Human Subjects Institutional Review Board (IRB).

2019

November

• Dr. Baugh is happy to become adjunct faculty with Sanford Research, and is looking forward to some exciting collaborations with the Sanford Research Neuropychiatric Research Institute.

October

• The lab had a great time in Chicago to present our research at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting and catch up with colleagues from across the Country and beyond.
• Dr. Baugh and the rest of the lab were happy to participate in the Strategic Planning Retreat for the Sanford School of Medicine. Lots of great ideas, and some real exciting times ahead.

September

• The lab had a great time at the Minnesota Symposium on Addiction Science. Definitely some cool stuff going on.
• We are happy to see the Neuroscience Undergraduate Curriculum starting its inaugural year. It was a lot of paperwork and meetings, but certainly worth it! 

August

• Dr. Baugh is excited to begin the President's Executive Leadership Institute. It's going to be an excellent opportunity to see how a University actually works!     
• The lab was happy to meet with Dr. Arun Singh, a potential future colleague and collaborator at the University of Iowa.

July

• The Center for Brain and Behavior Research (CBBRe) had a great time meeting all of the EPSCoR summer students at the annual conference. A lot of great work showcased.    

June

• The Baugh Lab is excited to announce Dr. Kelene Fercho is moving on to her new appointment as an Engineering Research Psychologist at the Civil Air Medical Institute in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Kelene has been a tremendous colleague over the years, and we are sure of two things. Our collaborations will continue, and she will excel in her new role.  

May

• Dr. Baugh is happy to take the reins as director of the University of South Dakota's Center for Brain and Behavior Research. The Center has done some amazing things over the past few years for Neuroscience at the University of South Dakota under its previous leadership, and we hope to continue that exciting progress!

April

• Great presentations at IdeaFest this year, especially from those in the lab (though admittedly we're a little biased)!
• We had a great turnout and some wonderful speakers for our CBBRe symposium on bullying.
• The lab had a great time in Toyoma Japan, presenting our research at the Society for the Neural Control of Movement. Dr. Baugh also went to see snow monkeys.

March

• The South Dakota Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) workshop was a great way to see what this industry is all about!

February

• Dr. Baugh is busy teaching the medical students about the brain!

January

• We had a great time showing Dr. Kloth's class all of the cool things we can do with a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Machine!

2018

November

• The lab had a great time in sunny San Diego presenting our research at the Society for Neurosciety. Always a great opportunity to talk shop with colleagues and collaborators from around the world.

October

• We had a great time out West River (Rapid City) working with a great group of stroke survivors.
• Happy to meet potential collaborators at ASU - Arizona is beautiful this timeof year!

September

• Dr. Baugh loaded up the camper and drove to Canada.

August

• Great grant writing workshop at UNMC
• Another succesful CBBRe Annual Symposium
• Thanks to the N3 program for sponsoring an excellent entrepreneurial workshop...maybe there is something to this business stuff.

July

• ISEK in beautiful Ireland was a great time. The more I visit this country the more I like it!

May

• Another great year of talks at the Eastern South Dakota Research Symposium

April

• A great experience at the CRCAIH conference at Sanford Research. Great to see responsibly conducted research focusing on American Indian Health.
• The Sanford School of Medicine Research Symposium was great to attend...always impressed at the caliber of research we have going on here (...even if I don't quite understand it all the time)

March

• Thanks to Dr. Jonathan Marotta, my former PhD advisor, for popping in for a short visit to talk about all the exciting stuff going on in his lab.

February

• The lab is excited to have two new medical students joining us. Dylan Goehner is a first year medical student that has been accepted into the Medical Student Scholarship Pathways program. Sam Critzer is a 2nd year MD/PhD student whom will be conducting the PhD portion of his work within the lab.

January

• Another paper out the door, this time examining how the brain processes virtual tool use. Congratulations to all those involved (Austin Reno, Dr. Kelene Fercho, and Taylor Bosch).

2017

November

• Another great publication with collaborators Dr. Kelene Fercho and XT Wang, looking at the effects of glucose taste versus glucose ingestion on brain networks associated with impulsivity.

• As always, we had a great time vistiting the Black Hills Stroke Support Group.

• We had two great poster at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, in Washington DC.

October

• The lab is happy to announce another succesful collaborative publication with colleagues, this time examining both the neural neuropsychological characteristics of college students with alcoholic parents. The article can be viewed here.

• Drs. Baugh and Fercho had a great time in New Mexico, both attending the New Mexico Clinical Neurostimulation Conference at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and presenting their translational stroke research.

• We had a great time at the Great Plains IDeA-CTR Annual Scientific Meeting at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska.

• Lab alum and collaborator, Dr. Kelene Fercho attended the National Center of Neuromodulation for Rehabilitation Level 1 Workshop at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina and trained with TMS and tDCS for clinical and basic research. We look forward to tapping in to your new expertise!

September

• Congratulations to Drs. Gina Forster and Lee Baugh on the success of their recent National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant to purchase transcranial magnetic stimulation for the Human Functional Imaging Core.

August

• Congratulations to Drs. Lee Baugh and Kelene Fercho on receiving travel awards to attend the National Institutes of Health-sponsored Clinical Neurostimulation conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to take place in October.

• We had another great turn out at the 2017 CBBRE Annual Neurobehavioral sympoisum. All of the students and collaborators of the lab did an excellent job. Of particular note, Dr. Kelene Fercho was awarded first place in the research/staff/postdoctoral fellow/graduate student division for her work on brain-computer interfaces.

July

• Congratulations to Dr. Kelene Fercho on her selection to participate in the second National Institutes of Health-sponsored Summer School in Adaptive Neurotechnologies at the Wadsworth Center in Albany, New York. I guess there could be better ways to spend three weeks in the summer, but I certainly don't know what that would be!

June

• Congratulations to our collaborator Dr. Gina Forster on a five-year, $3.4 million dollar grant to study genetic and environmental influences in post-traumatic stress disorder. Drs. Baugh and Fercho, are happy to take the lead on the functional imaging component of this project.

• The 2017 Central Region IDeA Meeting was a great success, with some great work coming out of the lab and out of the labs of our collaborators. It's great to see so much fMRI and EEG work within this region!

May

• Remember that fMRI presentation back in March? Congratulations to our collaborator Kory Zimney for being recognized as giving one of the top five presentations.

• Work from the lab led by Kelene Fercho and Lee Baugh, Taylor Bosch, Sara Niederbaumer, and Cami Brenner (all students in the lab) was presented at the Neural Control of Movement Conference in Dublin, Ireland...we also went to the Guinness factory.

• Dr. Baugh is happy to announce he has been promoted to Associate Professor and granted tenure.

April

• Amanda Johnson, Kelene Fercho, Lee Baugh, and Kathleen Brown-Rice recently presented on an fMRI study at the Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health Fifth Annual Summit Conference, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

March

• In collaboration with Kory Zimney and Kelene Fercho, the lab recently presented an fMRI study at the second Pain Science in Motion Colloquium in Stockholm, Sweden.

• Lee Baugh gave a lecture on the neuroscience behind synesthesia and other sensory experiences at the Sound, Color, Shape Interdisciplinary Symposium at USD.

• The lab had a great time presenting on EEG and brain-computer interface research to high school students as part of the 2017 Scrubs camp.

January

• Our most recent paper with collaborators Raluca Simons, Jeffrey Simons, Dawne Olson and Gina Forster has been accepted examining posttraumatic stress and alcohol use among veterans. Scanning o

2016

November

• Congratulation to lab members and collaborators Kami Pearson, Erik Burnison, Jamie Scholl, Kathleen Brown-Rice, Amy Schweinle, Seth Olson, Dawne Olson, Gina Forster, Kelene Fercho, and Elizabeth Hanson for the excellent EEG and fMRI research presented at the 2016 Society for Neuroscience Conference in San Diego, CA.

October

• The lab was happy to present at the Black Hills Stroke Support group. Many excellent questions from the audience, as always.

September

• We had a great time, and even better presentation at the Human Factors and Egornomics Society Internation Annual Meeting. Congratulations to Dr. Fercho, who gave an excellent talk about her work.

August

• We had another excellent CBBRe symposium. Many great speakers from all levels. Fun was had by all. Great poster presentations by lab members Nick and Taylor, and as always, the Neuroimaging Core was well-represented by Drs. Kelene Fercho and Lee Baugh.

July

• Told you things would be quiet around here.

June

• The lab is happy to have Nick Severson, a SPURA summer student within the lab to begin examining the roles of circadian rhythm on a number of impulsive decision making tasks and concurrent EEG measurements. It's going to be an interesting project!

May

• The lab is happy to announce are CBBRe collaborative grant application with Drs. Kelene Fercho and Liz Hanson was successful, allowing us to further study the utility of pupil diameter and measures of cognitive workload during EEG-Brain Computer Interfaces.

• Things will certainly be quiet around here, as our colleague Dr. Kelene Fercho is heading to Tubingen for two months to learn all about how neuroscience is performed at the world-class lab of Dr. Niels Birbaumer.

April

• Members of the lab are once again looking forward to a trip to the Rapid City campus to meet with our research participants from the western side of the state.

• Congratulations to Drs. R. and J. Simons on their first, 1st author fMRI publication examining PTSD and alcohol use among veterans. It is a great project, and we are glad we could help!

March

• The lab is happy to report the our colleague and fMRI lab manager, Dr. Kelene Fercho, successfully had a paper examining how the cognitive attributions of errors in object lifting can change the way errors corrected for in future interactions (with which we collaborated) accepted into Experimental Brain Research...one of many more to follow!

February

• Lab member and SDSU student, Tim Hanna, successfully defended his comprehensive oral exam. Congratulations Tim!

January 2016

• Another year, another class of medical students. Dr. Baugh is looking forward to teaching the class of 2019 all about the brain!

2015

December

• Members of the lab are looking forward to a trip West River to see the sights and interact with some of our wonderful research participants.

November

• The lab had a great showing at SfN in Chicago this year. Four excellent posters!

October

• Dr. Baugh is most appreciative of the opportunity to meet and discuss stroke research with members of the Rapid City Stroke Support Group.

September

• Dr. Baugh is looking forward to a whole new year of teaching undergraduate and graduate students in Neurobiology.

August

• Lab PhD student Taylor Bosch had an excellent talk at the Annual CBBRe symposium. I know everyone was excited about your latest results!

July

• Dr. Baugh enjoyed a short trip to Iowa to meet with Dr. Warren Darling to discuss matters at hand (or at least object manipulation studies), and Dr. Enrique Leira, and Dr. Harold Adams to discuss possible collaborative opportunities. Additionally, the Stoppelmoor lecture given by Dr. Stephen Cramer was a great opportunity to see the leading edge of stroke rehabilitation research.
• Austin Reno had a great time presenting his research at the Keystone Conference in Boulder, Colorado.  From all reports, the poster was a big hit.
  
• Dr. Baugh enjoyed his visit to Watertown to present to the Stroke Survivor group (...and to see the great zoo)
• Congratulations to Katelin, who ended her time with the lab with an excellent presentation on her work looking at different EEG classification systems for a novel P300 speller.
• The lab was happy to return to, and present new data, to the Vermillion Stroke Support Group and update them as to how they have helped stroke research at SSOM.
  

June

• We are happy to announce the formation of the human neuroimaging core at USD.  More details to follow, but in the interim we do have a website.
  
• Congratulations again to Dr. Fercho, who has accepted a position managing the newly developed fMRI core at USD.  We wish you all the best with your new position...I hear you new boss is a little difficult to deal with at times!
• In other great news, Lillian Kallestad has been awarded a SPURA summer fellowship to continue work on delay discounting in conjunction with Dr. XT Wang in the psychology department.
  
• Congratulations to Dr. Kelene Fercho, who successfully passed her PhD Defense.
• Congratulations to Austin Reno, who successfully defended his PhD thesis.  Has a couple of years yet before he's a Dr./Dr., but I am sure he is glad to return to the clinical component of his M.D./Ph.D. training.

• Kelene Fercho gave an excellent talk at NCM 2015 in Charleston, SC.  One of only a few students selected to give an oral presentation, she represented the lab as well (and perhaps better!) than I could have.
• Congratulations to Erik Burnison, who successfully completed his Honors Thesis, and was accepted to Medical school.  He's had a busy month.
• Congratulations to Mackenzie Gatzke (Nee Rogers) who was accepted to medical school.
• Congratulations to Luke Fuhrman, also accepted into medical school.
  

• The lab is looking forward to talking about illusions in object interactions at this year's IEEE World Haptics Conference in Chicago.  A special thanks goes to Dr. Gavin Buckingham for organizing this event and inviting us to partake.
• The lab is happy to announce that Amanda Johnson was successful in entering the Scholarship Pathways Program as part of her medical training.  We are looking forward to her joining the lab.
• We are happy to welcome Tim Hannah, a SDSU student whom will be helping out with some of the fMRI projects within the lab.
  

• Congratulations to Ms. Kelene Fercho, whose work with the lab was selected as an oral presentation for this year's annual meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement
• Dr. Baugh is looking forward to another couple of fun-packed weeks teaching our first year medical students all about the brain and radiology.
  

• Members of the lab are looking forward to the start of another great collaboration, this time with Dr. Kory Zimney, supported by a successful School of Health Sciences seed grant.

2014

• We are happy to announce, and grateful for the success, of our CBBRe interdisciplinary grant. We look forward to continuing our exciting research with our colleague XT Wang, across the street in the Psychology Department.

• The lab had a wonderful turnout to our three posters at SfN this year in Washington, DC.
  

• The first annual CBBRe conference was a great success, and lots of fun.  Special thanks go out to our invited speakers who made the trip out to South Dakota to share their exciting research
  
• We are sad to see both Allie and Hannah leave the lab, and wish them the best of luck. It was a very productive summer.
• It is true, the SSOM has been ice-bucket challenged, thanks to those that participated (Drs. Inglis, Manzerra, Huber, Bunger, Waller, and Hohnson) and for the nomination.  This is one circumstance that I can pay my way out of! Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGvw5osh5YE