The Aaron Harber Show: Morgan Bazilian

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy at Colorado School of Mines, discusses the highly-contested debate about climate change and what the U.S. role should be.
July 3, 2024

Oil companies flare more natural gas, defying effort to eliminate practice

The World Bank, working with the Colorado School of Mines in the United States, calculated the flaring figures based on data from satellites.
June 20, 2024

Adaptive athlete shows off one-of-a-kind prosthetic developed in Colorado

Caitlin Conner has a one-of-a-kind prosthetic developed by engineering students at the Colorado School of Mines. The students worked on the prototype for the past six years.
June 17, 2024

A new report says worldwide oil demand will peak in 2029. Some oil industry observers are skeptical.

“Anyone who models the energy system would be familiar with the huge range of results that we see, the uncertainty we see, the volatility we see,” noted Morgan Bazilian, who teaches public policy at the Colorado School of Mines.
June 13, 2024

Colorado School of Mines professor's research helping lead the way for mass timber building revolution in U.S.

Colorado School of Mines professor Shiling Pei has had a busy year. His research is helping lead the way for a revolution in construction using strong, lightweight, renewable timber.
June 11, 2024

Teaching: Can guided reading teach students to become better readers?

One of the best explanations of how reading guides are designed and used came from Justin Shaffer, associate dean of undergraduate studies and a teaching professor at the Colorado School of Mines. Shaffer has taught thousands of STEM students in ....
June 10, 2024

Community College of Aurora, Colorado School of Mines establish transfer program for STEM students

Colorado School of Mines students and alumni have built many things — bridges, networks, pipelines and more — over the last 150 years, but their latest project involves connecting opposite ends of the Denver metro area in a more metaphorical way.
May 31, 2024

Hopes of a 10-year EV transition are an ‘irrational’ pipe dreams because we don’t have enough battery materials—opening up a single copper mine takes 23 years

“It's almost irrational, the expectation that we can electrify everything and have all the materials that we actually need for batteries and electric vehicles…by 2030, or 2035,” M. Stephen Enders, a professor at the Colorado School of Mines and a 48 ....
May 30, 2024

Colorado's hot springs explained: Deep time, deep layers

“Our hot springs all derive from meteoric water, rain or snow,” says Paul Morgan, a longtime geothermal specialist with Colorado Geological Survey.
May 29, 2024

The neutrino’s quantum fuzziness is beginning to come into focus

“The ‘quantum properties of the neutrino’ stuff is a little bit of the Wild West at the moment,” says nuclear physicist Kyle Leach of Colorado School of Mines in Golden. “We’re still trying to figure it out.”
May 21, 2024

China Is Winning the Minerals War

“China is not just standing still waiting for us to catch up,” said Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines. “They are making investments on top of their already massive investments in all aspects of the ....
May 21, 2024

Colorado’s leadership on methane emissions survives another challenge

Morgan Bazilian, Greg Clough and Simon Lomax of the Payne Institute for Public Policy wrote this opinion piece on the emissions compromise forged during the most recent Colorado state legislative session.
May 17, 2024