In the news – DUNE partners

Rice University’s DUNE-TECH program introduces undergraduates to the science behind DUNE, one of the nation’s most ambitious physics experiments.

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.

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

Rice University recently hosted an international workshop focused on integrating cutting-edge AI and ML technologies for the DUNE project led by Fermilab. Rice’s BioScience Research Collaborative collaborators to tackle the monumental computational challenges posed by DUNE and to strategize on leveraging AI’s transformative capabilities within the field of particle physics.