capital improvement program

RAPID CITY, S.D. — The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is in the process of developing plans for a $37 million research center. Officials say the new facility will help the school meets its goal of tripling graduate enrollment in addition to the amount of annual research awards.

The 120,000-square-foot center will be funded partly by student tuition dollars, though most of the money will come from grants and private and federal funding.