The understood part is comprised of stars, gas, rocks, you and me; so called baryonic matter. Precision astrophysical measurements and detailed modeling allow us to understand that 23% of the universe is comprised of material that helped form the earliest galaxies and today affects the orbital dynamics of galaxies and galaxy clusters. This part of the universe is called dark matter since it is invisible yet interacts gravitationally. In fact on large scales its gravitational effects dominate that of the ordinary matter. The remaining 73%, termed dark energy, is pushing galaxies apart at an accelerating rate and will lead to a cold death of the universe.

 Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is believed to exist within a much larger dark matter structure and we move through it relatively unimpeded. This allows us to set up detectors here on earth and search for dark matter signals. Our group works on one such experiment, the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search, located in an inactive iron mine in Soudan, Minnesota.

 The main theme of this talk will focus on motivation for the dark matter hypothesis, our dark matter search experiment's design, detectors and search results. Time permitting, I will conclude with discussion on the future of our experiment. People of all backgrounds are invited and no background knowledge in astro-particle physics is needed.