Mines News

For climbers, the sport is about more than scaling rock walls. It’s about the camaraderie, trust, teamwork and bonds built through shared challenges. Those connections recently brought together the South Dakota Mines Hardrocker Climbing Club and...

A new initiative at South Dakota Mines is reimagining how young children learn engineering by bringing elementary students, families, teachers and university faculty and students together to design mechanical engineering toys from the ground up.

More than 250 physicists and researchers from around the world will gather in the Black Hills May 18–22, 2026, for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) conference hosted by South Dakota Mines. DUNE is a leading-edge, international...

More than 500 middle and high school students across four states gathered on the South Dakota Mines campus this week to test their math skills in the 74th annual West River Math Contest hosted by the university.

A new international research project led by South Dakota Mines researcher Gokce Ustunisik, Ph.D., associate professor of geology and geological engineering, and collaborators at the University of Cambridge, aims to answer one of Earth science's most...

Researchers at South Dakota Mines are playing a key role in the global search for dark matter through their advanced radon detection and reduction system for the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) at SNOLAB, a research facility located...