In the news – DUNE media

Each year for Neutrino Day, SDPB hosts a special live broadcast a mile underground. This year, SDPB spoke with Mike Headley, SURF laboratory director, Dr. Sowjanya Gollapinni, senior scientist for Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment and others about DUNE and Neutrino Day events in Lead, SD.

SURF and partner organizations hosted the 18th annual Neutrino Day in Lead, SD on July 11. As a sponsor, Fermilab hosted an interactive livestream event from underground, an Ask a Scientist table and many lab staff were on hand to answer questions about DUNE.

University of Sussex professor and DUNE collaborator Kate Shaw presented a public talk in Rapid City about the science behind DUNE and why we study neutrinos.

More than 250 physicists and researchers attended the international DUNE conference hosted by South Dakota Mines May 18-22, bringing together members of the DUNE collaboration that includes more than 1,500 scientists from over 220 institutions across 38 countries.

CERN Director-General Mark Thomson met with dignitaries and officials at SURF on May 7 to mark a milestone for the international DUNE experiment.

Hundreds of Black Hills residents joined the DUNE celebration in Lead by signing one of the massive beams that will be placed underground as part of the DUNE detector structures.

Officials and international partners of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment gathered in Lead, SD, on May 7 to celebrate the installation of the detector structures.

An event in Lead, SD to commemorate the start of moving 4.5 million kilograms of steel beams underground to hold DUNE’s detectors in place was attended by senior officials including CERN director-general Mark Thomson and Dario Gil, undersecretary for science at DOE.

The Underground Construction Association awarded the LBNF project the 2026 Project of the Year award to the teams who removed over 800,000 tons of rock from this extreme depth.

The LBNF/DUNE project hosted by Fermilab has been named the Underground Construction Association’s 2026 Project of the Year.