Regents to name new president at SDSMT

Published April 24, 2013 7:28pm ET



RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — The Board of Regents will appoint a new president Thursday for the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

The Board of Regents is meeting at 1:30 p.m. Mountain Time at the School of Mines’ campus. The new president will then address people in attendance at the meeting.

The Rapid City Journal reports that four finalists for the position were named last week. They are current acting president Duane C. Hrncir; H. Fred Walker, dean of the College of Applied Science and Technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology; Stephen G. Wells, president of the Desert Research Institute in Nevada; and Heather Wilson, an entrepreneur and small business owner.