Colorado School of Mines residence life staff took home multiple major awards from the Intermountain Affiliate of College and University Residence Halls Regional Leadership Conference, held Nov. 3-6 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Mines received the Program of the Year award for bringing members of the U.S Paralympic goalball team to campus to teach students how to play the game and then organizing a campus tournament. Goalball, designed for athletes with impaired vision, has teams competing to throw a ball with bells inside into their opponents’ goal.
Chase Schumacher, an engineering physics major and a second-year resident assistant in Weaver Towers, was named Student Staff Member of the Year.
Mary F. Elliott, Mines’ director of housing and residence life, was named Advisor of the Year.
Mines students were also honored for presenting two of the top 12 programs at the conference. Brandon Bakka, a chemical engineering student, was recognized for “How LGBTQ+ People Navigate the Jungle of College Campuses.” Schumacher and Keenan Urmann, a mechanical engineering student, were recognized for “Miracle Gro Fer(Tea)lizer, a weekly Tuesday Tea program in the residence halls.
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