Foundation

Celebrating the 2025 Alumni Awards: Honoring Orediggers whose leadership, service and innovation uplift the Mines community

The $4.3 million gift from Kiewit Corporation and Bruce Grewcock ’76 will grow Mines’ Construction Engineering program and industry impact.

Lockheed Martin employees honor Mines with NASA-flown Orion artifacts, celebrating alumni impact on space exploration.

“The impact of this campaign will be long-lasting," said Mines President Paul C. Johnson. "We now have facilities, programs, faculty expertise, professional development opportunities – and most importantly – students and graduates that the world can’t find elsewhere."

Mines marked an incredible milestone: $550 million in community support through the Campaign for MINES@150

What better way is there to show your OreGiver love than supporting the Mines causes you care about most to help them win part of the more than $100,000 in bonus funds?

The inaugural fund, Mines Venture Fund 1, provides startup capital to entrepreneurs and innovators with ties to Colorado School of Mines.

Mines launched the MINES@150 Strategic Plan and the Campaign for MINES@150 in 2016 with big aspirations that would require strengthening affinity for Mines among our students, faculty and staff, alumni and external partners.

Colorado School of Mines alum Lowell Shonk MS ’79 and his wife, Cheryl, made a transformative $5 million gift to establish the Lowell and Cheryl Shonk Endowed Chair for the Head of the Economics and

Aramco, one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies, has made a financial gift to Colorado School of Mines’ burgeoning Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem.