Black Hills State University's Educational Outreach is excited to announce a new partnership with the Adams Museum & House, Inc., a Deadwood non-profit educational organization that oversees the operation of the Adams Museum, the Historic Adams House and the Homestake Adams Research and Cultural Center.  The mission of the AM&H is to identify, preserve, collect, interpret and promote the history and culture of Deadwood and the surrounding Black Hills for the benefit of members of the Northern Black Hills community, visitors to the area and researchers. The Adams Museum is open year round and hosts changing exhibits and special programs. The Homestake Adams Research and Cultural Center (HARCC) has the opportunity to protect and make accessible for the first time ever the records of the Homestake Mining Company. The 10,000 cubic foot Homestake Mining Company archival collection is of national significance. While there are many aspects that make the Homestake Mining Company unique, it is also representative of an industry of iconic proportions that dominated and helped settle much of Western America. Mining deeds, land claims, mineral surveys, annual reports, exploration and production records, photographs, assay ledgers, timber contracts and a plethora of other mining-related documents, dating from 1876 to 2002, detail the company's 126-year history in Lead, South Dakota and far beyond. The Homestake Adams Research and Cultural Center is currently under construction with a completion date in summer 2010.

 

Black Hills State University is excited to announce our first joint offering:

 

 

 

 

Dr. Jose Alonso, Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestake director since 2007, will be addressing Homestake's future. He came to Homestake after a 30-year career at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. Dr. Alonso earned his doctorate in nuclear physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he did research at Yale University before joining LBNL. He and his wife, Carol, were part of the team that discovered the element seaborgium. For most of his career Dr. Alonso has worked with particle accelerators, including medical and security applications. He directed the Bevalac accelerator at LBNL, conducting research into the relativistic heavy ions used in both nuclear science and radiation therapy. Dr. Alonso also coordinated a collaboration to develop an accelerator-based neutron source. The Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee combined resources from six U.S. national laboratories. After his official "retirement" from LBNL in 2002, Dr. Alonso assisted with the assembly of an LBNL experiment, the ATLAS Detector, in the new Large Hadron Collider at the CERN Laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC, scheduled to go online, will be the largest, most powerful accelerator in the world.
 
Dr. Alonso brings to the Sanford Lab a wealth of experience creating, developing and managing major research projects. He also has established the broad collaborations of scientists necessary to make those projects successful. Dr. Alonso has worked at universities and laboratories throughout the United States and in Europe and Japan. His resume includes more than 80 refereed journal articles and dozens of awards, fellowships and appointments to scientific panels and committees.