South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (SDSMT)

The National Science Foundation awarded $4 million dollars to state colleges for a new collaborative research partnership. Its goal – developing cheaper and more environmentally friendly fertilizers.

Tanvi Govil, Ph.D., genetically engineers microbes to create environmentally friendly bioplastics. Her research could decrease the amount of microplastics in the soil.

A partnership between musicians and STEM majors led to Score-Score, a database to store and review sheet music.

Darren Clabo, Ph.D., is our state fire meteorologist. He discusses which areas of the state could burn amidst rising temperatures and dry conditions.

We talk science with the astrophysicists visiting South Dakota School of Mines and Technology for the third annual IceCube EPSCoR Initiative Undergraduate Summer Program.

A year ago, rapid rainfall led to devastating flooding in Yellowstone National Park. We talk to a researcher who was on the ground surveying the destruction.

South Dakota Mines students designed and built the mobile stage. The Rushmore Music Festival sponsored the project and will use it for pop-up concerts all summer.

South Dakota Mines researchers are exploring a battery breakthrough. The leftovers from processing certain plants could power everything from your cell phone to a spaceship.

The position, shared between the schools, will eye both environmental goals and savings to the institutions.

There’s more overlap between the mathematic precision of engineering and freeform creativity of the fine arts than you may think. South Dakota Mines showed that creative connection with the BeethoVAN, a project that hopes to bring chamber music beyond the concert hall.