Mike Mooney, director of the Center for Underground Tunneling and SmartGeo and Grewcock University Endowed Chair and Professor at Colorado School of Mines, was recently interviewed by USA Today regarding SpaceX founder Elon Musk's goal to build an ....

The Summer Multicultural Engineering Training program at Colorado School of Mines was recently featured in the Golden edition of YourHub. The program, which targets rising high school juniors and seniors from populations underrepresented in the STEM ....

The Colorado School of Mines students building a Hyperloop pod for an international competition at SpaceX in August have been featured in The Denver Post. From the story: With the deadline just over two weeks away, the Colorado School of Mines ....

Shiling Pei, assistant professor of civil engineering at Colorado School of Mines, was recently interviewed by the Weather Channel regarding an ongoing experiment to design tall wood buildings that can sustain minimal damage during strong earthquakes ....

A research team led by Colorado School of Mines Civil Engineering Assistant Professor Shiling Pei is in California this summer, conducting earthquake tests on a two-story wooden building on the world's largest outdoor shake-table. The researchers are ....

A Colorado School of Mines student team that took second place in a NASA competition to design and build a system to extract water from Mars' subsurface was featured on 9News. The team, one of only eight finalists in the NASA Mars Ice Challenge, had ....

Division of Economics and Business Assistant Professor Peter Maniloff contributed to 9News story, “Colorado joins other states in U.S. Climate Alliance.” Maniloff weighs in on whether Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper’s plan is possible and what it ....

Colorado School of Mines Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Chris Higgins was recently interviewed for an article in Chemical Engineering News on how polymers can help remove contaminants from drinking water. The article, " ....

An interdisciplinary team of Mines students is in Virginia this week competing in NASA’s Mars Ice Challenge, part of NASA’s Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) brand of competitions. The “Orbiting Orediggers” are one ....

A study of the effectivity of systems to filter contaminants from groundwater, led by Colorado School of Mines Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Christopher Higgins and published in the journal Environmental Science and ....

Ebru Bozdag, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geophysics, is working with an international team of researchers to develop better models of the Earth’s interior. These models will help scientists understand the layers of the earth and how the ....

A new joint report, "Microbes and Climate Change" from the American Society for Micobiology (ASM) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) explores how microorganisms have both changed and been changed by the climate throughout Earth's past. John ....