Legacy News - December 2012

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South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

Legacy News sdsmt.edu Presidential search committee named A group of 12 people will help the South Dakota Board of Regents in its search for the next president of the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, serving as campus and community representatives on the presidential search and screen committee. Joining regents Terry Baloun, Dean Krogman, Randy Morris and Kathryn Johnson are: •Community – Dr. Charles Hart, president and CEO of Regional Health, Rapid City •SDSM&T Foundation – Tamera Nelson, Chicago, Ill., retired former managing director of the Underground Mining Division of Caterpillar •Alumni – Ronald Jeitz, Greensboro, Ga., retired marketing executive for Texaco Inc. •Administration – Pat Mahon, vice president for student affairs and dean of students •Career Service Employees – Cynthia Christensen, program assistant in the Career and Professional Development Center •Non-Faculty Exempt Employees – Joseph Wright, associate vice president for research and economic development •Faculty – Molly Gribb, department head of civil and environmental engineering; Stanley Howard, professor of materials and metallurgical engineering •Students – Spencer Ferguson, senior civil engineering major and Student Association president, whose hometown is Sioux Falls; Kati Johnson, junior chemical engineering major, whose hometown is Buffalo •Institutional Collaboration – David Chicoine, president of South Dakota State University •Member At-Large – Benjamin Snow, president of the Rapid City Economic Development Partnership

The new president chosen will succeed the late School of Mines President Robert Wharton, who passed away in September.

December 2012

Mines shows off Downtown Campus The South Dakota School of Mines & Technology formally presented its Downtown Campus to the public during an October grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony. The 18,000-square-foot addition at 520 Kansas City St. is home to the university’s Department of Industrial Engineering, and offers a four-room state-of-theart conference center for community use. The industrial engineering program and its nearly 150 students have operated out of the top two floors of the building for the past year while renovations continued on the main floor and basement conferencing rooms. The first floor also features a School of Mines information center. The impetus for the move into downtown is two-fold, both as a way to connect with Rapid City’s economic development plans, as well as to expand the physical campus t o Dakota Board of Regents has approved the formation accommodate a growing of a committee to develop a plan for a projected student population and 120,000-square-foot research facility on campus. laboratory needs. With a 2,424 fall headcount, SDSM&T experienced a Between the Downtown Campus 4.9 percent enrollment growth this year. and a development laboratory The new facility includes labs in which students study at 920 E. Saint Patrick St., the ergonomics in a hands-on environment, and where School of Mines is leasing more students create artistic or innovative designs for the than 32,000 square feet in offmarketplace using a mill, lathe and laser engraver. campus facilities. The South 1


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