Mines Newsroom - Official news from the Colorado School of Mines

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Colorado School of Mines is a top producer of Fulbright U.S. students

Learn more about the three Mines students and recent grads who were selected for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program for academic year 2025-26.

Mines researcher part of NASA-selected satellite mission

Colorado School of Mines is a top producer of Fulbright U.S. students

#idigmines: Celebrate a decade of love for Mines

Extensive freshened water beneath the ocean floor confirmed for the first time

Payne Institute for Public Policy announces inaugural Industry Advisory Board

Colorado School of Mines Foundation honored with award for college and university board leadership

Vertically integrated program brings together researchers across fields, experience levels

News Headlines

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February 5, 2026

#idigmines: Celebrate a decade of love for Mines

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February 2, 2026

Colorado School of Mines Foundation honored with award for college and university board leadership

February 2, 2026

Vertically integrated program brings together researchers across fields, experience levels

Mines Magazine

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December 17, 2025

Blue Key has shaped the Oredigger experience with a century of tradition

December 3, 2025

Lessons from a Mines alum’s path to leadership in a dynamic energy landscape

Elizabeth Holley testifies before select committee

December 1, 2025

U.S. policymakers turn to Mines for trusted expertise on critical minerals

Videos

Four smiling graduate students shown in split screens with the text Colorado School of Mines Graduate Reflections.

VIDEO: Master's and PhD graduates on their Mines experience

Four smiling undergraduate students shown in split screens with the text Colorado School of Mines Undergraduate Reflections.

VIDEO: Bachelor's graduates on their Mines experience

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.

VIDEO: PFAS research at Mines targets water contamination

Research

Mines researcher part of NASA-selected satellite mission

Extensive freshened water beneath the ocean floor confirmed for the first time

Vertically integrated program brings together researchers across fields, experience levels

In The News

PFAS: New Frontiers, Emerging Solutions

Chris Higgins, AMAX Distinguished Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, reflects on progress, pitfalls and the path toward meaningful solutions to the PFAS problem.

February 9, 2026

The defense department is infatuated with this drippy silver metal

Ian Lange, professor of economics and business, said the push by the U.S. and other countries to increase gallium production could create a glut of the metal causing the gallium market to crash.

February 9, 2026

Denver Poet Seth Brady Tucker Takes on Masculinity in New Collection

Seth Tucker, teaching professor of humanities, arts and social sciences, discusses his new collection of poetry, The Cruelty Virtues.

February 9, 2026

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