Showing 'Water' News
Apr
15
2014
Engineering Students travel to Nicaragua for Social Survey
By Andrew HoffmanThe Oredigger Members of the Engineers Without Borders / Bridges to Prosperity (EWB/B2P) student organization at the Colorado School of Mines recently traveled to Nicaragua to complete a social survey for a community development NewsApr
08
2014
Mines ranks first for ASCE overall conference, steel bridge
Colorado School of Mines received high scores at the American Society of Civil Engineering Rocky Mountain Student Conference April 4-5 at Colorado State University. Mines placed first for both the Overall Conference award and the Steel Bridge NewsApr
02
2014
Student spending summer on Exploration Vessel Nautilus
Colorado School of Mines mechanical engineering student Katarina Bujnoch was recently selected for a remote operated underwater vehicle (ROV) engineering summer internship, during which she will be studying the seafloor aboard the Exploration Vessel NewsFeb
06
2014
Students to travel to Nicaragua to improve water system
In March, two students from Mines’ Engineers Without Borders-Bridges to Prosperity club (EWB-B2P) and mentor Stephanie Fleckenstein will travel to Los Gomez, Nicaragua, to help the community stop one of the biggest causes of death in the world: lack NewsNov
18
2013
Researchers converting wastewater to cleaner water
Environmental science and engineering graduate student Erin Neil is working on an independent study with civil and environmental engineering professors Dr. Tzahi Cath and Dr. Pei Xu on developing cost-effective and environmentally sound technologies NewsJun
14
2013
Connecting the Pine Beetle Dots
By Todd Neff Forests across the Mountain West have gone orange and faded to gray. Since about the turn of the millennium, the mountain pine beetle’s appetite for lodgepole has killed off some four million acres of trees in Colorado and Wyoming alone NewsJun
11
2013
Mines 2013-14 research magazine is published
NewsJul
23
2012
Fighting fire with fine water mist
This portable fire extinguisher is lightweight, inexpensive, non-toxic, recyclable, uses water more efficiently and is less damaging to structures and electronics than a typical sprinkler system. “From the outset Mines has been a leader in water NewsJul
16
2012
Computer models tell watery Martian history
In 2001 NASA sent its Opportunity rover to Mars in search of evidence for water in the planet's past. The mission was successful, finding rocks containing salt that formed in a watery environment roughly 3.7 billion years ago, including the recent NewsJun
25
2012