Mines News

A new agreement signed last week between South Dakota Mines and the University of Papua New Guinea will create new opportunities for academic collaboration, student and faculty exchanges and joint research.

Nirmalya Thakur, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at South Dakota Mines, has received 200,000 ACCESS Credits through a National Science Foundation-funded program to advance research aimed...

Recently, a group of South Dakota students, together with other graduate students, research scientists, and Scott Tighe, lead scientist for the extreme microbiome project and research faculty at the University of Vermont, explored the 4,100-level...

A team from South Dakota Mines has been selected as a winner of the U.S. Department of Energy Providing Opportunities for Specialized Education in Critical Technologies Planning Prize, earning a $1 million cash award to support planning for education...

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes a scientific breakthrough that South Dakota Mines researchers are helping advance using elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos to explore the universe’s most energetic and mysterious environments.

South Dakota Mines has significantly increased its merit scholarship awards for incoming freshmen, nearly doubling the scholarship funding available to qualifying students. Beginning in fall 2027, each of the university’s scholarship levels will...