October 2011 was an exciting month, not only for Mines, the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) and the state of Colorado, but for solar energy in general. Coming off the purchase of Colorado-based

He may have co-authored a textbook titled "The Art of Being a Scientist," but for Mines Geophysics Professor Roel Snieder, there is art in community service as well. Snieder, who is the W.M. Keck

GOLDEN, Colo., June 27, 2012 – As numerous wildfires burn across Colorado, a new study conducted by Mines Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate students last semester details how these fires

Take raw sewage flowing from a major apartment complex. Send it through a 2 millimeter screen. Let a flora of microorganisms feast on it for a while. Filter it – this time through pores just 50

Check out this video of a robotics project created by a Mines graduate student last semester in the Mechanical Engineering Department: “The project assignment was open-ended and the main requirement

In the basement of Alderson Hall, in a lab painted butter yellow and crimson with soaring, utilitarian square concrete pillars, amongst a hodgepodge of machine room detritus and laboratory equipment

GOLDEN, Colo., June 20, 2012 – Colorado School of Mines has launched a mobile website and free downloadable apps for the iPhone and Android phones. The mobile site can be accessed via smartphones at m

This is a story of humans and hardware. What happened when professors, tops in their different fields of energy research, gained campus access to a world-class supercomputer? The story began four

GOLDEN, Colo., June 19, 2012 – Dr. Fernando Guzman has joined the Colorado School of Mines community as executive director of the school’s Multicultural Engineering Program (MEP). Guzman has a

Colorado School of Mines is leading the way in engineering education and research. This video, featured on ASEE TV during the American Society for Engineering Education’s annual conference in June