SOUTH DAKOTA, UNIVERSITY OF

public, coeducational university, situated in Vermillion, S.D., U.S. It offers about 90 undergraduate and graduate major fields, as well as speciality and associate degree programs. The university is composed of the College of Arts and Sciences (founded 1883), the School of Law (1901), the School of Medicine (1907), the School of Education (1927), the School of Business (1927), the Graduate School (1929), and the College of Fine Arts (1931). Research and academic units include the Institute of American Indian Studies, the Business Research Bureau, the South Dakota Geological Survey, the Government Research Bureau, and the Shrine to Music Museum and Center for Study of the History of Musical Instruments. The Black Hills Fine Arts Center, established in 1946, is located in Custer State Park. There are approximately 7,600 on the student rolls. The University of South Dakota was established by the Dakota Territorial Legislature in 1862, and it opened in 1882. It was one of the first institutions of higher education in the Dakotas. The telecommunications centre was named for physicist Ernest Orlando Lawrence, who graduated from the school in 1922 and was awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize for Physics for inventing the cyclotron.