Mines News

Sarah Wheeler Keenan, Ph.D., and South Dakota Mines associate professor of geology and geological engineering, will spend next month at the Taita Taveta University in Voi, Kenya, helping the institution design and launch one of the country's only...

For two decades, the South Dakota Mines ceremonial mace has been a constant presence at commencement. Carried in by the faculty chair as part of the academic procession, the mace symbolizes the university’s distinctive identity and mission.

Scyller Borglum, Ph.D., and South Dakota Mines alumna, will give the commencement address during the South Dakota Mines 192nd commencement ceremony at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, in the Fine Arts Theatre at The Monument in Rapid City. Those...

South Dakota Mines and Dakota BioWorx have launched a first-of-its-kind effort in South Dakota to turn corn stover, the leftover stalks and leaves from corn harvest, into high-value biomaterials that could someday be used in advanced medical applicat...

South Dakota Mines biomedical engineering students will pitch and negotiate original wound-care product ideas in a Shark Tank–style event on Friday, Dec. 12, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Devereaux Library Makerspace. Their innovative, biocompatible...

Nearly a mile beneath the surface of western South Dakota, one of the world's most sensitive physics experiments is quietly listening for signals from the unseen universe with researchers from South Dakota Mines helping guide every pulse it records,...