Mines News

South Dakota Mines is slated to receive $25 million in federal funding to expand mining education and workforce development as the United States works to strengthen its domestic critical minerals supply chain and address a growing shortage of skilled...

Jocelyn Suranyi, Neha Jupalli, Krista Burkman and Louis Rancour, all undergraduates from across the country, spent the summer at South Dakota Mines in science and engineering labs across campus, working on research projects focusing on everything...

Engineering is more than solving complex problems; it is combining technical skills with empathy and compassion to make decisions that improve communities. That focus on human-centered engineering has been Cristian Vargas-Ordóñez’s teaching model...

Nidhi Kapatia and Pragati Pandey, biotechnology majors from Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT) in Solan, India, have spent the last six months working as interns at South Dakota Mines. During the internship, they immersed themselves...

South Dakota Mines has been awarded a $3.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to lead a new research effort aimed at developing advanced technologies that could locate and map rare...

As the modern world of engineering changes, South Dakota Mines is evolving with it. The university is launching a new graduate program that enables students to continue full-time employment while integrating workplace challenges into their coursework...