Skip to main content
Toggle navigation
Sanford Underground Research Facility
SDSTA
The Facility
News and Events
Contact Information
DONATE
Impact and History
Science and Discovery
Education and Outreach
Education and Outreach
Resources for educators
Full Details
Our focus
K-12 STEM education
Public outreach
Internships
Davis Bahcall Scholars
A Lasting Impact
Science impact
Full Details
Education impact
Full Details
Economic impact
Full Details
A Legacy of Discovery
Our history
Full Details
Science and Discovery
The experiments
Full Details
Our focus
Going deep for science
Unlocking the mysteries of neutrinos
Searching for dark matter
Mimicking the nuclear fusion of stars
Life underground
Characterizing the earth
Press resources
Press resources
SURF Press Kit
Press Releases
Experiments
Communications Office and Directory
See how SURF is responding to the COVID-19 virus.
Press Releases
Recent and archived press releases can be found here.
More Information
Contact
Constance Walter
Communications Director
605.722.4025
Contact by email
Press Releases
Press Release
SURF transitions to new operations level
May 4, 2020
Controls remain in place to protect staff, contractors and community
Press Release
SDSTA signs cooperative agreement with U.S. Department of Energy
December 2, 2019
New agreement creates direct relationship between DOE and SURF
Press Release
Dark Matter Experiment’s Central Component Takes a Deep Dive – Nearly a Mile Underground
October 29, 2019
Q: How do you get a 5,000-pound, 9-foot-tall particle detector, designed to hunt for dark matter, nearly a mile underground? A: Very carefully.
Press Release
Happy birthday Neutrino Day: 10 years of science outreach in the Black Hills
July 9, 2018
Join us for Sanford Lab's free science festival—it'll be 10 times the fun!
Press Release
Sanford Lab receives John T. Vucurevich Foundation grant for Neutrino Day X
May 22, 2018
$8,000 Grant will offset costs of the free science festival held throughout Lead, South Dakota
Press Release
Majorana publishes results in 'Physical Review Letters'
March 26, 2018
Neutrino experiment at Sanford Lab could provide greater clarity on matter-antimatter imbalance in the universe.
Press Release
Are you ready for a challenge? Join us for Deep Talks: Reaching Out
January 8, 2018
Join the Sanford Underground Research Facility's Education and Outreach team for an engineering design challenge
Press Release
Sanford Lab brings “Big Science” to Discovery Center in Pierre
December 11, 2017
The Sanford Underground Research Facility houses world-leading physics experiments, as well as other experiments, nearly a mile underground in the former gold mine
Press Release
Deep Talks delves into MAJORANA results
November 3, 2017
What do the results look like and what do they mean for the experiment? For science? For Sanford Lab?
Press Release
The Big Bang and the Fate of the Universe
October 6, 2017
What happened in the very first moments of the tiny, but massive event? The first million years? Find out at the next Deep Talks.
Load More