Forever Chemicals Are Widespread in U.S. Drinking Water
These chemicals can linger on geologic time scales, explains Chris Higgins, a civil and environmental engineer at the Colorado School of Mines.
January 22, 2021
Despite Energy Industry Concerns, Colorado Experts Project State Economy Will Fare Better Under Biden Administration
“Historically the jobs in the oil and gas industry were higher paying on average. But of course that’s changing,” said Professor Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy at Colorado School of Mines.
January 22, 2021
Colorado legislation looks to make standardized tests optional for college admissions
Dale Gaubatz, who heads Mines’ admissions office, said colleges and universities have had test requirements for decades, but the number of underrepresented students hasn’t changed much.
January 21, 2021
Enormous wind turbines may be coming to a coast near you
“The sheer scale of these things is sort of amazing. It's almost impossible to imagine,” said Sara Hastings-Simon, an energy expert at the Payne Institute of Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines.
January 14, 2021
School of Mines starting spring classes
About 70 percent of classes will have an in-person component.
January 12, 2021
‘Pay Attention’: Colorado Political Experts Reflect On Storming The Capitol Building
“I see the events as a dramatic and dark day in the history of our democracy,” political specialist Ken Osgood said. Osgood is also a history professor at Colorado School of Mines.
January 6, 2021
Will increasing traffic to the Moon contaminate its precious ice?
And Kevin Cannon, a planetary scientist at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, thinks that the small amounts of contamination introduced by exploring the Moon’s ice are far outweighed by the scientific advances of figuring out where and how all ....
January 5, 2021
Geothermal energy, the forgotten renewable, has finally arrived
"If you can figure out a way to tap that, you can get a phenomenal amount of energy,” says Will Fleckenstein, an engineering professor studying unconventional drilling at the Colorado School of Mines.
December 20, 2020
School Of Mines Professor Develops Face Shield With Environment In Mind
Jeff Ackerman, a professor at the Colorado School of Mines, is trying to help Coloradans be environmentally friendly during the coronavirus pandemic.
December 6, 2020
Agricultural water contaminated with “forever chemicals” could taint produce, Colorado study finds
The study, published last week in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, shows that “we really need to not ignore this potential exposure,” said Juliane Brown, lead author and an environmental engineering Ph.D. candidate at the School of ....
November 23, 2020
Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than We Are?
Last summer, distressed by police officers’ treatment of protesters in Denver, two Colorado roboticists — Tom Williams, of the Colorado School of Mines and Kerstin Haring, of the University of Denver — started drafting “No Justice, No Robots.”
November 22, 2020
Girls Scouts across Colorado explored STEM from home
As many as 200 Girl Scouts from across Colorado participated in Girl Scout Engineering Day with the Society of Women Engineers at Colorado School of Mines this November.