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This is an image of the McLaury Building on the campus of South Dakota Mines built inside the video game Minecraft. (Courtesy of SD Mines)

Mines in Minecraft: Student renders Rapid City university campus in video game
BY: - December 20, 2022

South Dakota Mines computer engineering major Jaxxen Cheney has built a model of the university campus inside the popular video game Minecraft, according to a news release from the university. The game allows users to create worlds inside the platform with sets of digital building blocks. A video of the rendering is here, and an album of […]

Colleen Sullivan, who authored a newly published paper quantifying fossil erosion, is shown here working in a lab at South Dakota Mines on her research. (Courtesy of South Dakota Mines)

Mines student recognized for research on fossil dissolution rates
BY: - October 25, 2022

RAPID CITY — A South Dakota Mines graduate student has published research on the rate that fossils erode when they’re exposed to the surface. Colleen Sullivan’s research has just been published in the peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal PLOS ONE. In a news release from Mines, Sullivan said she was studying the effect of rain on […]

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