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Challenge to Colorado School of Mines students brings answers to big problems with wildfire mitigation
Lia Franklin, acting director of the McNeil Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, discusses the Innov8x Biomass Challenge where 10 finalist teams competed to learn who had the best plan for what to do with the bushes and trees cutdown to mitigate ....
April 8, 2026
Student finds new use for fire mitigation biomass
Hannah Rodda, a freshmen in mechanical engineering, won the 2026 Innov8x Biomass Challenge with her idea to use pine needles to make conductive ink.
April 7, 2026
Artemis II lunar mission set to launch soon
Angel Abbud-Madrid, professor of practice in mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Space Resources, recalls the 1961 space launch when astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American to travel into space.
April 1, 2026