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Prospective Students Invited to Go to Mines Events

High school students and their families are invited to South Dakota Mines on Saturday, Oct. 23 and Saturday, Nov. 13 for the fall Go to Mines open house events.

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High Impact Hardrocker - Geraldean Lynn Fluke

Mines Receives Largest Gift in University History, Naming Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in Honor of Alumna Karen M. Swindler

Mines Hosts Community Update on Higher Education Task Force

Mines Students Help Create Life Size “Operation” Game for STEM Outreach Events

South Dakota Mines Researchers Aid NASA in Combing Space Station Research Data

South Dakota Mines Enrollment Sees Little Change in 2021

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Wednesday, September 22, 2021

South Dakota Mines Hosts Annual Pumpkin Chucking Event

South Dakota Mines plans to hold its annual pumpkin catapult competition at the Great Downtown Pumpkin Festival beginning at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 25 in Memorial Park.

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Two Mines Computer Science Students Build New Dating App Based on Memes

Two South Dakota Mines graduates decided to use their degrees in computer science to build a new dating app. The students built a unique algorithm that connects users based on their taste in memes.

Monday, September 20, 2021

Mines Fall 2021 STEAM Cafés: The First Woman Computer Programmer, Rural Studies, Mysterious Shipwrecks, and More

Topics for the fall STEAM Café series range from a look at the very first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, to a look at the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior more than 45 years ago.

Monday, September 20, 2021

Special Assistant Attorney General Presented Constitution Day Talk at Mines

South Dakota Mines hosted speaker Pat West on Sept. 17, 2021, for the annual talk celebrating the U.S. Constitution.

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

South Dakota Mines Wins $11.2 Million Grant for DoD Cold Regions Research

South Dakota Mines is partnering with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) on a new project called “Materials and Manufacturing for Cold Regions.”

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

South Dakota Mines Offers New Avionics and Aerospace Engineering Minors

South Dakota Mines has two new minors for students interested in working in the booming avionics or aerospace industries.

Monday, August 30, 2021

Mines Faculty Member Joins Inaugural Cohort at Rural Communication Institute

South Dakota Mines instructor of humanities Bryce Tellmann, Ph.D., is one of 10 university faculty in the nation invited to join a new cohort of rural scholars at Tarleton State University’s Rural Communication Institute.

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