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Rendering of LILL-E Pad technology on Moon's surface

Colorado School of Mines students developing lunar “lily pad” for 2021 NASA BIG Idea Challenge

A team of Colorado School of Mines students have received funding from NASA to design and test a near-term solution to one of the biggest (smallest) challenges to future lunar exploration: Moon dust.
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Colorado School of Mines students developing lunar “lily pad” for 2021 NASA BIG Idea Challenge

Colorado School of Mines to celebrate 2021 E-Days on April 15-18

Lincoln Carr to serve at U.S. State Department as Jefferson Science Fellow

Kevin Cash named Scialog Fellow

Paul Sava named head of Geophysics Department

These miniature Death Stars could improve the future of lunar exploration

Colorado School of Mines launching professional master’s and first-of-its-kind certificate in analytical geochemistry

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Fireworks explode behind Guggenheim Hall
April 12, 2021

Colorado School of Mines to celebrate 2021 E-Days on April 15-18

Josh Ehrlich works on DUSTEE in McNeill Hall
April 6, 2021

These miniature Death Stars could improve the future of lunar exploration

Student conducts experiments in the field
April 5, 2021

Colorado School of Mines launching professional master’s and first-of-its-kind certificate in analytical geochemistry

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ReVolt team with the 1979 VW Bus

“The best way to recharge this legacy was really to improve its performance, its reliability and also its relevance going forward.”

Instructor speaks to two students in McNeil Hall

Introducing McNeil Hall, Mines' newest academic building

Noah Sandoval

"We have engineers, scientists, even people within the policy and economic worlds coming together."

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Humans of Mines

Hanzelle Kleeman

Hanzelle Kleeman: "The ability to work with a diverse and experienced group has been invaluable and I am excited by how much progress is made each day."

Fritz Prehn

Fritz Prehn: "Since graduating from Mines with my PhD, I was fortunate to complete my post-doc in Singapore with Nanyang Technological University."

Sarah Zaccarine

Sarah Zaccarine: "Something I've really appreciated about working with people at NREL is how receptive and helpful they are towards Mines students."

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Opinion: GPS is endangered by a misguided FCC decision made during the Trump administration

Matthew Siegfried, a Colorado School of Mines professor, spent nine Antarctica summers setting up GPS field stations to take satellite measures to study Antarctic snowfall.
April 14, 2021
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This Time Around, Coronavirus Won’t Stop As Many Colorado University Commencement Ceremonies

Teklitz will return to Colorado in May and walk the stage in front of her parents and brother. The School of Mines is holding multiple ceremonies to meet health and safety guidelines, as well as limiting the number of guests each graduate is allowed ....
April 12, 2021
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The ‘Doomsday’ Glacier May Be in More Trouble Than We Thought

The varying levels of agreement and disagreement between models and the observational data is exciting, said Tasha Snow, a postdoctoral researcher of geography at the Colorado School of Mines who was on that expedition with Larter in 2019 but did not ....
April 12, 2021
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Igniting the entrepreneurial spark

Creating businesses, leaders and prosperity

George Saunders turns an engineer’s lens toward writing, reading

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