Mines News

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September 11, 2024
Enrollment at South Dakota Mines is up 3.4% over fall 2023 with a total headcount of 2,579 compared to 2,492 last fall, an increase of nearly 100 students. The number of credit hours students are taking has also increased by 3.1% for a total of 31,202...
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September 11, 2024
South Dakota Mines recently announced its newest class of students accepted into the President’s Leadership Academy. Launched last year by former Mines President Jim Rankin, Ph.D., P.E., the year-long leadership development program exposes students...
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September 4, 2024
South Dakota Mines Counseling Office and Lost&Found, a state organization that aims to do more to eliminate suicide among the nation’s young adults, are collaborating for the annual community Chalk the Walk this Thursday, Sept. 5 from 11 a.m. –...
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September 3, 2024
The summer after the first year of college is difficult for many students. Few internships or jobs are available for students with only one year of schooling completed. Travis Walker, Ph.D., associate professor in the South Dakota Mines Karen M....
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August 29, 2024
A team of South Dakota Mines researchers received a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish a Quantum Materials Institute on campus to advance quantum computing and secure quantum communications.
Lower (left) and upper photomultiplier tube arrays are prepared for LZ at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. Credit: Matthew Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Facility
August 26, 2024
Figuring out the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our universe, is one of the greatest puzzles in physics. New results from the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector, LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), have narrowed...