Warren Elvin Wilson was an American professor of civil engineering and college administrator. He was educated at Lehigh University with a B.S. in 1928, followed by Cornell University with an M.C.E. in 1932, California Institute of Technology with an M.S. in 1939. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1941. He served as president of South Dakota School of Mines and Technology from 1948 to 1953. [1]
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The Dakota Athletic Conference (DAC) was a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). As the name implies, member teams were located in the states of North Dakota and South Dakota. The conference folded after the 2011–12 academic year.
Heather Ann Wilson is the 11th President of the University of Texas at El Paso. She previously served as the 24th Secretary of the United States Air Force from 2017 through 2019. Wilson was the 12th president of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City from 2013 to 2017, and she was the first female military veteran elected to a full term in Congress. She was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for New Mexico's 1st congressional district from 1998 to 2009.
The South Dakota School of Mines & Technology is a public university in Rapid City, South Dakota. It is governed by the South Dakota Board of Regents and was founded in 1885. South Dakota Mines offers bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees.
The South Dakota Board of Regents is a governing board that controls six public universities in the U.S. state of South Dakota. These include Black Hills State University, Dakota State University, Northern State University, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, South Dakota State University, and the University of South Dakota. The Board also governs the South Dakota School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the South Dakota School for the Deaf.
Valentine Trant McGillycuddy was a surgeon who served with expeditions and United States military forces in the West. He was considered controversial for his efforts to build a sustainable relationship between the United States and Native American peoples.
William Phipps Blake was an American geologist, mining consultant, and educator. Among his best known contributions include being the first college trained chemist to work full-time for a United States chemical manufacturer (1850), and serving as a geologist with the Pacific Railroad Survey of the Far West (1853–1856), where he observed and detailed a theory on erosion by wind-blown sand on the geologic formations of southern California, one of his many scientific contributions. He started several western mining enterprises that were premature, including a mining magazine in the 1850s and the first school of mines in the Far West in 1864.
Philip Reese Bjork is an American geologist and paleontologist known for his work in unearthing dinosaur species in America.
Walter A. Rosenblith was a biophysicist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was elected to all three National Academies.
Ervin Mondt is a former American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa from 1983 to 1988 and South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota from 1990 to 1994, compiling a career college football coaching record of 30–80–1. Mondt also coached high school football over a span of four decades in the states of Colorado and New Mexico. He retired from coaching in 2002.
The South Dakota Mines Hardrockers football program represents the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T) in college football. In 2010, South Dakota Mines announced that it would end the school's affiliation with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) to join the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division II beginning with the 2011 season as a probationary member and becoming a full member in 2013.
The South Dakota Mines Hardrockers are the athletic teams that represent South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, located in Rapid City, South Dakota, in Division II intercollegiate sports of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The Hardrockers primarily compete as a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference for all 11 varsity sports.
Ray Dreyer Hahn was an American football and basketball player and coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the South Dakota School of Mines—now known as South Dakota School of Mines and Technology—from 1929 to 1934 and Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas from 1938 to 1942 and again from 1946 to 1956, compiling a career college football coaching record of 70–104–4.
David Arthur "Finky" Strong was an American football player, coach of football and basketball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (1941), Albright College (1946), Whitman College (1947–1948), and California State University, Sacramento (1954–1956). He was the head basketball coach at South Dakota Mines for one season in 1941–42. While at Whitman, he also served as the school's athletic director.
Gary L. Boner was an American football player and coach. He was the longest-tenured head football coach for South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (SDSM&T) in Rapid City, South Dakota, serving from 1971 to 1989. With a record of 92–73–7, he won more games than any football coach in SDSM&T history.
The Black Hills Brawl is an annual football game between Black Hills State University and South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Also known as The Battle for the Homestake Trophy or rarely called the West River Rivalry, the winner of the game receives the Homestake Trophy. The current venues the game is played in are Lyle Hare Stadium since 1960 and O'Harra Stadium since 1938. First played in 1895 and played 135 times, the Black Hills Brawl is the most played in NCAA Division II and tied for the oldest rivalry in DII ; it is the 4th most played rivalry nationwide in any division.
Charles Sumner Richardson was the first president of South Dakota's normal school, Madison Normal, that later became Dakota State University.
Dunham Field at O'Harra Memorial Stadium is a multi-purpose college football stadium in the United States, located on the campus of the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (SDSM&T) in Rapid City, South Dakota. It is the home of the South Dakota Mines Hardrockers of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference in NCAA Division II, as well as Rapid City's two public high schools.
Scyller J. Borglum is an American politician and engineer from the state of South Dakota. A Republican, Borglum had served in the South Dakota House of Representatives for the 32nd district from 2018 to 2021.