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Nels H. Granholm (born 1941) is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biology, Microbiology and Global Studies at South Dakota State University. He earned a biology degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and pursued doctoral study in developmental biology at Iowa State University, followed by a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Yale. During his scientific training he participated in Antarctic research as a U.S. Antarctic Research Program biologist at Hallett Station (1967–1968); Mount Granholm in Antarctica was named for him by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names. Granholm taught at South Dakota State University for forty-one years, initially in zoology and entomology and later also teaching philosophy and bio-ethics; he taught in the Honors College for twenty-five years and later coordinated SDSU’s Global Studies program for six years. SDSU recognized him as a Distinguished Professor (2004).