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Mines and US Geological Survey expand critical minerals and energy research partnership with new joint facility

Mines and the US Geological Survey are deepening their critical minerals partnership with a new shared research facility opening in 2027.

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

Moore Foundation funds Mines professor to pursue innovative concrete research

Kyle Leach named American Physical Society Fellow

Mines PhD students win NASA awards for ocean research

5 Questions with George Saunders: What STEM students asked the acclaimed author and Mines alum

Business engineering teaches STEM-minded undergraduates to be industry leaders

Arthur Lakes Library honored as 2025 Library of the Year by U.S. Government Publishing Office

News Headlines

ramya kumar in lab coat and green gloves working in lab

October 14, 2025

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

October 13, 2025

Moore Foundation funds Mines professor to pursue innovative concrete research

October 9, 2025

Mines PhD students win NASA awards for ocean research

Mines Magazine

July 9, 2025

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

June 25, 2025

In a career path fueled by endurace, Mines alum starts athletic performance business

June 24, 2025

New fellowship program helping to turn Mines faculty research into startup reality

Videos

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

A gloved hand holds a small metal scoop of processed mine tailings in a laboratory setting. Behind it, lab equipment and a mixing drum are visible. Overlaid text reads: “Rebuilding with Mining Waste – Inside the lab.”

VIDEO: Mines researchers turn mine tailings into high-performance construction materials

Research

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

Moore Foundation funds Mines professor to pursue innovative concrete research

Kyle Leach named American Physical Society Fellow

In The News

Teaching quantum science in Colorado schools

Margaux Basart, a graduate student in quantum engineering, discusses why she is excited about pursuing a career in the quantum arena.

October 14, 2025

Buckle up: Is Waymo ready for Denver’s winter roads and angry drivers?

Frankie Zhu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, discusses the challenges a driver-less Waymo taxi will have when it attempts to traverse ice and snow on Denver's streets.

October 14, 2025

Mines grad’s app helps solve access question for some of Colorado’s 704,000 acres of inaccessible public lands

Zack Bennett, director of The Beck Venture Center, discusses Infinite Outdoors, an app started by Sam Seeton, a petroleum engineering program graduate, that allows landowners to be compensated by members of the public who wish to cross their land so they can access nearby public land.

October 13, 2025

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