Fundamentals of Scientific Discovery

“Creating an approachable and intellectually stimulating environment is key to bringing more women of all backgrounds into the field of computing,” said Iris Bahar, professor and head of the Computer Science Department at Mines.

“The complexity and scope of this mission is a good demonstration of the breadth of research going on in the Physics Department and at Mines as a whole,” Professor Lawrence Wiencke said.

Daniel Scarbrough, a PhD candidate in applied physics at Colorado School of Mines, was named runner up in the JenLab Young Investigator Award at SPIE Photonics West. Photonics West is the largest

Mines' Jeff Squier and CSU's Randy Bartels were recently awarded a $1.2 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to build the electronics and light detectors fast enough to capture and count single photons.

More than 25 C-MAPP industry partners judged the research projects, networked with students and presented valuable advice regarding job interviewing and potential career paths.

“The buzzword is rational drug design," said Christine Morrison, assistant professor of chemistry. "We’re being very deliberate about the protein we’re targeting and the inhibitors we’re building, rather than just throwing spaghetti at the wall.”

Through the SIF, academic and industry partners, along with current faculty, students and alumni, can more easily access the university's world-class research equipment and instrumentation, as well as the technical expertise to use them.