Mines News

School is back in session, but summer is not quite over at South Dakota Mines. The university invites community members to grab their sunglasses and come out for the 2026 Rocker Days, themed "Rockers in Paradise.” From painting downtown windows...

Fall brings a special kind of challenge for students at South Dakota Mines – who can fling pumpkins the farthest? For 18 years, the university’s CAMP teams have hosted the popular pumpkin catapult competition at the Great Downtown Pumpkin Festiva...

South Dakota Mines is beginning the fall term with a strong enrollment momentum, welcoming nearly 2,500 students to campus, including a freshman class approaching 500. The incoming class is larger than last year, continuing the university’s strong...

What began as a simple effort to share messages of hope and kindness on the South Dakota Mines campus has grown into a statewide movement encouraging communities across South Dakota to remind people that they matter, they are valued and they are...

South Dakota Mines students returning to campus this fall are finding a newly renovated Surbeck Center, following the completion of a more than $10 million expansion designed to modernize the front door to campus and enhance the student experience...

For the better part of a century, people have been trying to understand dark matter. This invisible substance makes up roughly 85% of the mass in the universe but has never been directly detected. Determining exactly what it is remains one of the...