Students in a number of courses at the University of South Dakota this fall will find the Missouri River being used as a teaching tool.
Meghann Jarchow, teaches the sustainability program in the College of Arts and Sciences. She says using the river gives students an example they can see and be a part of.
A $42,000 grant from the National Science Foundation is funding the project.
Jarchow says the river can be used in many majors beyond just environmental science.
Jarchow calls the river “the spine of South Dakota.” She says many of the USD students already have some connections to it.
Academic departments and programs taking part in the project are anthropology, biology, communication studies, earth sciences, economics, English, native studies, history and sustainability in the College of Arts & Sciences and the Division of Curriculum and Instruction in the School of Education.
