Student awards

Colorado School of Mines is once again sending a student team to the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl National Championship, being held March 7 and 8, in St. Louis. Mines will be one of 36 collegiate teams

Learn more about the three Mines students and recent grads who were selected for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program for academic year 2025-26.

Award-winning research advances next-generation computer chips with atomic-scale plasma etching innovations.

Mines PhD students win NASA grants to study ocean waves and Antarctic tides, uncovering new insights into Earth’s dynamic systems.

Mines students competed at the ASCE national finals in June after being named Overall Symposium Champions at the Region 7 Rocky Mountain Symposium in April.

This marks the first time Colorado School of Mines has had more than one student Fulbright recipient in the same year.

Award honors outstanding beginning teachers in the state

Max Kephart, a member of the Extreme Structures and Materials Laboratory led by Leslie Lamberson, is one of two Mines students to win the highly competitive fellowship this year.

Colorado School of Mines awarded 45 doctorates and 385 master’s degrees at the May 8 ceremony. Spring 2025 Commencement continues Friday, May 9 with three undergraduate ceremonies.

Four Colorado School of Mines students have been awarded the 2025 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The prestigious program, which began in 1952, is the oldest continuous