Challenge to Colorado School of Mines students brings answers to big problems with wildfire mitigation

Lia Franklin, acting director of the McNeil Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, discusses the Innov8x Biomass Challenge where teams competed to learn who had the best plan for dealing with the bushes and trees removed to reduce wildfire risk.
April 8, 2026

Colorado School of Mines graduate, pro racecar driver returns to campus to give back to students

Sabre Cook, 2017 mechanical engineering graduate, returns to Mines to talk to students about her car racing career. Cook says what she learned as a mechanical engineering student helps her better understand, and discuss with her race team, the mechanics of how her car is performing in competitions.
September 4, 2025

Denver to look at nuclear option for power at Denver International Airport

Thomas Albrecht, professor of chemistry and Grandey Chair in Nuclear Science and Engineering, discusses Denver International Airport's feasibility study focused on using a small modular nuclear reactor to power the airport.
August 6, 2025

After 6 week course at Mines, high school teachers show off their robots

Colorado high school teachers demonstrate their newly-learned robotics skills after completing a 6 week course at Mines on robotics and AI.
July 25, 2025

Students at Colorado School of Mines develop new application to help visually impaired

Hapware, an application developed by Mines students and alums, is designed to allow persons who are visually impaired or neuro-diverse to be able to interpret facial expressions. Hapware utilizes a camera installed in glasses and a vibrating wristband.
July 7, 2025

Students face off in cardboard boat races in Colorado School of Mines 91st Engineering Days

CBS4 spotlighted the annual Mines' Cardboard Boat Race. This year the race benefitted from great weather, bringing out an especially big crowd for the engineering competition.
April 12, 2025

Tensions grown between U.S. and Canada over tariffs

John Jechura, professor of Practice, Chemical and Biological Engineering, is quoted in this story examining the implications of new tariff's being placed on petroleum products from Canada. Jechura said that the tariffs make it possible Coloradans ....
March 9, 2025

Colorado School of Mines students host annual blood stem cell donor registration drive

The blood drive is conducted to honor Jennifer Rotramel-Ronhovde, a member of the Sigma Kappa Zeta Pi chapter who died from leukemia. The drive, now in its 12th year, is done to raise awareness about leukemia and help those like Rotramel-Ronhovde find donors.
March 1, 2025

One of the coldest places in the universe is inside a quantum fridge at Colorado School of Mines

The first of its kind Big Fridge being built by Maybell Quantum in Mines' Labriola Innovation Hub is designed to house a quantum computer and provide the machine with the extremely cold environment it needs to operate.
January 22, 2025

New facility to support quantum research coming to Colorado

Mines PhD student Sam Saiter talks about why he got into quantum engineering in this segment, filmed in the quantum clean room on the Mines campus.
January 17, 2025