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With the encouragement of an alumni mentor, Catherine Smith ’14 made a career leap from mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering to the oil and gas industry.

“We got to see (the building) go from a sketch on notebook paper to the real thing,” said Lindsey Nenne, one of the team’s construction leaders, who graduated in May with her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.

Current Mines student Rowan Welch comes from a long line of Orediggers, spanning 124 years and counting: His father, his uncle, two of his great-grandfathers, his great-great uncle and his great-great-grandfather all earned degrees from Mines

Frick , who has served as department head of Mines Mechanical Engineering since 2021, will start in the new role July 15.

The new Miss Colorado will be crowned July 14, but you can see the sapphire peaks and 14K-gold plains in this stunning piece of Colorado history year-round at the Mines Museum of Earth Science.

Chris Valdez ’00 and Ty Harrison ’98 work together on the leadership team for PureWest Energy, an independent natural gas producer in Colorado.

As University Librarian, Maness will oversee Arthur Lakes Library and the Mines Museum of Earth Science, providing leadership and vision for advancing the library’s role in supporting research, teaching and learning across campus.

Colorado School of Mines is part of the regional consortium receiving federal funding — as well as $84 million in matching state support and $1 billion in private capital — to support efforts to strengthen the quantum workforce over the next decade.

The findings, recently published in the journal Science, address one of the key durability challenges of the advanced solar cells, known for their high potential for significant power conversion efficiencies.

Deb Carney, University Distinguished Teaching Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Mines, will serve as co-principal investigator on a new NSF project to create a new upper-division college elective that is specifically designed for prospective secondary mathematics teachers.