Sabre Cook, 2017 mechanical engineering graduate, returns to Mines to talk to students about her car racing career. Cook says what she learned as a mechanical engineering student helps her better understand, and discuss with her race team, the mechanics of how her car is performing in competitions.

Ron Cohen, emeritus associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, is quoted about radium showing up in flood waters. Cohen said exposure to low levels of radium happens to everyone, but exposure to high levels of radium will cause cancer.

Anna Littlefield, geothermal and carbon capture utilization and storage program manager at the Payne Institute for Public Policy, says that there's isn't a "hard cutoff" for how deeply carbon can be buried in an attempt to keep it out of the atmosphere.

Chris Dreyer, professor of practice in mechanical engineering, is interviewed for this article focusing on a company's plan to mine for Helium-3 on the moon. Helium-3 is primarily used in security scanners to detect neutrons from nuclear bombs or smuggled radioactive material.

Elizabeth Holley, associate professor of mining engineering, and Priscilla Nelson, professor of mining engineering, co-authored this guest column on their study that revealed the U.S. could obtain nearly all the critical minerals it needs through the re-processing of mine waste.

Jennifer Miskimins, professor of petroleum engineering and department head of earth and society programs, is interviewed about her perspective as incoming president of the Society of Petroleum Engineering.

Quantum Commons, owned by Colorado School of Mines, opens in Arvada. At a ceremony attended by Colorado Governor Jared Polis, officials from the corporate park unveiled a new job board focused on quantum-focused positions.

Paulo Tabares-Velasco, associate professor of mechanical engineering, has partnered on an effort to make 16 manufactured homes in Lake County, Colorado more energy efficient. Tabares-Velasco's team installed heat pumps and induction stoves, which run on electricity instead of fossil fuels.

Paul C. Johnson, Mines president, is quoted about the opening of the Quantum Commons campus in Arvada. Mines owns and operates the business park where quantum companies can set up their operations.

A study led by Elizabeth Holley, associate professor of mining engineering, is the focus of this article. Holley's study, originally published in the journal Science, focused on the critical minerals that exist in the waste streams of U.S. mining operations.