The 14th annual Student Research Symposium at South Dakota Mines, starts at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, April
9, in the Surbeck Center. The symposium includes poster presentations and talks
from both graduate and undergraduate students.
South Dakota
Mines is hosting its 14th annual Research Symposium on Tuesday, April 9, 2024,
in the Surbeck Center.
Graduate oral presentations will be held from 8
a.m.-2:20 p.m. in the Hardrock and Dorr rooms. Undergraduate oral presentations
will be held from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. in the McKeel Room. The graduate poster
presentation will be held from 9-11:30 a.m. followed by the undergraduate
session from noon-2:30 p.m. Both poster sessions will be held in the Beck
Ballroom.
Topics range across the STEM disciplines and include
studies aimed to build biofabrics to enhance wound healing, develop techniques
for solid-state battery manufacturing, build robots to operate at the DUNE
facility at SURF, recover critical mineral resources using microbes and use
melamine sponges (Magic Eraser) to remediate PFAs contamination.
The symposium includes
poster presentations and talks from both graduate and undergraduate students on
these topics and many more. Top presenters in both undergraduate and graduate
categories will be announced during a ceremony starting at 5:30 p.m. with
awards presented at the Spring Honors Convocation