Davis Campus ready for guests

The Sanford Lab will celebrate a milestone tomorrow (Wednesday), when Gov. Dennis Daugaard dedicates the Davis Campus, along with nearly 60 invited dignitaries and members of the media. 

Visitors will tour the Davis Campus at the 4850 Level in the morning, then attend a short dedication ceremony in the Yates Education Building. 

Guests will include Anna Davis, widow of Nobel Laureate Ray Davis, who made the Homestake gold mine a physics landmark. We?ll also welcome philanthropist T. Denny Sanford, who donated $70 million to the project, and Bill Brinkman, director of the Department of Energy?s Office of Science. The Governor, Dr. Brinkman and Sanford Lab Principal Investigator Kevin Lesko will speak.

The public can celebrate with us tomorrow evening at a free event at the Historic Homestake Opera House in Lead. Noted theorist Boris Kayser of Fermilab will present ?Neutrinos get under your skin.? The lecture is at 6 p.m., but join us for the social hour from 5 p.m to 6 p.m.