Investment in Mining and Materials Education at South Dakota Mines Will Show Huge Returns
Liangping
Li, Ph.D., and Bill Roggenthen, Ph.D., two faculty in the Department of Geology
and Geological Engineering at South Dakota Mines, discuss the SIGMA-V geothermal
energy experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility.
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Dakota Mines was founded 136 years ago to support the mining and mineral industries.
Today, the core disciplines of geological, metallurgical and mining engineering
remain an integral part of South Dakota’s economy. Mining alone has a $2.5
billion annual impact on the state. We believe South Dakota Mines has an
opportunity to emerge as an epicenter of new technology, serving not only to
Cosmological Mysteries - UH Physicists are Asking Big Questions about the Universe
January 7, 2021
$1.65 Million Grant Will Fund Projects in Neutrino Oscillation
You could be forgiven if you haven’t thought much about neutrinos. The subatomic particles are produced by the sun and by stars, moving unnoticed through rock, metal, air – even through people.
Lisa Koerner, a particle physicist at UH, is leading a $1.65 million project related to the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, known as DUNE.
But maybe you should know more about them. International efforts to understand them better could answer one of the enduring mysteries about the nature of the universe: if, as scientists believe, equal amounts of matter and antimatter were created during the Big Bang, why didn’t they cancel each other out, leaving nothing? Instead, matter persisted, and here we are.
Sanford Lab
When Darin Newton graduated from the University of Montana with a masterâs degree seven years ago, he fully expected to be working in his area of study: wildlife biology. When his wife, also a wildlife biologist, took a job in the Belle Fourche area, Newton began working as a kindergarten assistant and substitute teacher in the Belle Fourche school district. It was a temporary thing, meant to last only until he found a job in his field. But then something completely unexpected happened.
âI really enjoyed being around the kids,â Newton said. âAnd then the next two years I moved up in the different grade levels and found that I really enjoyed being in the classroom. I really enjoyed interacting with the students. And that got me thinking, âmaybe this is something I could get into.ââ