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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...
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August 15, 2024
South Dakota Mines recognized local business Pancheros Mexican Grill and business leader and alumnus Tyler Artz as the 2024 Community Champions during the annual state of the university address yesterday.
: Ann Sheehy, an incoming Mines first-year student, spent the summer looking at the characterization, processing and performance of Belle Fourche shale for ceramics.
August 13, 2024
Katrina Donovan, Ph.D., a senior lecturer in the Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering at South Dakota Mines, is the program director for the Army Education Outreach Program (AEOP). The internship program connects high school and...
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August 7, 2024
Nearly 70 experts from around the United States recently gathered at South Dakota Mines to collaborate on improving the production and use of hydrochar and biochar, carbon-rich solid materials created by processing biomass such as pinewood and corn...