SIOUX FALLS – Augustana University announced the following students have been named to the Dean’s List for the Spring semester of the 2017-18 academic year.

The Dean’s List recognizes full-time students who have a minimum of 12 credit hours with grade-point averages at 3.5 or above (on a 4.0 scale).

Shelby Selland of Letcher was named to the Dean’s list.

LETCHER – Attendees at the 2018 Cheyenne Frontier Days will have the chance to see a Yellowstone Stagecoach, which was completely restored and refurbished by Hansen Wheel & Wagon Shop (HWWS), of Mitchell, on behalf of the Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum in Cheyenne, Wyo. 

…Read on in this week’s issue of the Sanborn Weekly Journal.

Minnesota State University-Moorhead (MSUM) held its Employee Recognition Luncheon on May 10, in the CMU Ballroom in Moorhead, Minn. 

Among those recognized was Dr. T. J. Hansen, formerly of Letcher, as the university’s recipient of the Excellence in Teaching and Research Award. She was chosen for this award from the university’s 346 full- and part-time faculty members.

Hansen was honored for teaching and mentoring undergraduate students in the economics seminar research course. Her students’ research has been published in peer-reviewed, undergraduate journals on multiple occasions.

In fall 2017, the Minnesota Economic Association and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis recognized her student’s research as the third place term paper among all colleges and universities in Minnesota and Wisconsin. 

As a Professor of Economics, she also teaches undergraduate courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics and public finance and graduate courses in healthcare economics and quantitative methods.

Hansen is the daughter of Janice Northrup and daughter-in-law of Thela Hansen, both of Mitchell.

…See a picture in this week’s issue of the Sanborn Weekly Journal.