Wednesday - October 29, 2025
State Tipoffs Involving South Dakota Newsletter for Sunday October 26, 2025 ( 3 items )  

S.D. School of Mines: Majorana Demonstrator's Legacy Becomes Legend
RAPID CITY, South Dakota, Oct. 22 -- The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology issued the following news release: * * * MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR'S legacy becomes LEGEND The Majorana Demonstrator experiment at SURF proved the viability of new methods in the search for ultra-rare physics events. As the experiment decommissions, the lessons learned continue to drive future discovery. By Mike Ray, SURF Media Relations Manager Imagine setting a stopwatch at the Big Bang, some 14 billion years  more

The student becomes the teacher
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 22 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * The student becomes the teacher * Coming from a small high school in rural South Dakota that didn't offer advanced placement (AP) classes, Titus Roesler '25 didn't have the easiest start at MIT. But when his efforts to catch up academically to his peers led to a job as a teaching assistant, it changed everything. Roesler, who graduated last spring with a bachelor's degree in elec  more

Xcel Energy Moving Forward With Ten Mile Creek Project in St. Croix County
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Oct. 22 -- Xcel Energy issued the following news release: * * * Xcel Energy moving forward with Ten Mile Creek Project in St. Croix County EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (Oct. 21, 2025) -- Xcel Energy has taken the next step to move its plans forward for the Ten Mile Creek Project in St. Croix County, which if approved, would serve customers in the company's Upper Midwest service area, including Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. After ongoing analysis o  more