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Kiewit Corporation and Bruce Grewcock establish endowed chair to lead construction engineering at Colorado School of Mines

The $4.3 million gift from Kiewit Corporation and Bruce Grewcock ’76 will grow Mines’ Construction Engineering program and industry impact.

Kiewit Corporation and Bruce Grewcock establish endowed chair to lead construction engineering at Colorado School of Mines

More than a game: How Mines athletes build enduring connections

PFAS research at Mines targets water contamination

Media tip sheet: Navigating the use of AI in education

Edgar Mine revamped into hub for quantum research, mine safety and innovative learning

Emmanuel De Moor named ASM International Fellow

NSF, Lemelson Foundation support sustainable engineering mindset at Mines

News Headlines

Justin Dvorak gets ready to throw a football surrounded by other football players during a Mines football game

November 3, 2025

More than a game: How Mines athletes build enduring connections

October 27, 2025

Media tip sheet: Navigating the use of AI in education

Students wearing yellow hard hats sitting at desks in the classroom in Edgar Mine. A professor in a blue hard hat faces them at the front of the room.

October 27, 2025

Edgar Mine revamped into hub for quantum research, mine safety and innovative learning

Mines Magazine

November 3, 2025

More than a game: How Mines athletes build enduring connections

October 27, 2025

Edgar Mine revamped into hub for quantum research, mine safety and innovative learning

July 9, 2025

Economist turned energy leader: "Coming to Mines was the first step"

Videos

Chris Higgins stands in a field at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, leaning on a large white tank with two wooden planks on top. In the background are large machines and testing equipment, related to PFAS research.

PFAS research at Mines targets water contamination

Rendering of the future Mines–USGS Energy and Minerals Research Facility, showing a modern, multi-story building with large glass windows, elevated walkways, landscaped terraces, and people walking around the exterior plaza at sunset.

USGS and Mines forge new ground in critical minerals research with state-of-the-art facility

Two Colorado School of Mines students wearing safety vests, hard hats, and headlamps examine the rock ceiling inside the Edgar Experimental Mine using a mounted inspection camera. The underground setting is lit with work lights, revealing rough stone walls.

Colorado School of Mines is shaping the future of mining

Research

PFAS research at Mines targets water contamination

ramya kumar in lab coat and green gloves working in lab

Chemical and biological engineering faculty win NIH grants for early career investigators

lori tunstall in white lab coat and blue gloves holding a test tube

Moore Foundation funds Mines professor to pursue innovative concrete research

In The News

Kiewit, exec’s joint $4.3M gift establishes construction engineering program chair at Colorado School of Mines

A $4.3 million-endowment to Colorado School of Mines from Kiewit Corp. and Chairman Bruce Grewcock will create a program chair to oversee a new Bachelor of Science in Construction Engineering degree.

November 17, 2025

Waymo self-driving cars are ‘learning’ Denver’s streets

Frankie Zhu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and Jason Slowinski, associate vice president of infrastructure and operations, discuss Waymo's roll out of autonomous cars in Denver and Colorado School of Mines experience with a shuttle service that utilized autonomous vehicles.

November 9, 2025

How students maintain the iconic ‘M’ in Golden

Students in Blue Key Honor Society, the custodians of Mines' mountainside emblem, recently changed the M to light up as a bat to celebrate Halloween.

November 6, 2025

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