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The CoorsTek Research Fellowship has brought 19 extraordinary PhD candidates to Colorado School of Mines since CoorsTek and the Coors family established it in 2014.
The Mining Engineering Department has some big goals for the next five to 10 years to continue 150 years of university-industry synergy.
Edgar Mine is one of only five university-owned mines in U.S. — and the only one with a Wi-Fi-enabled underground classroom.
On the 150th anniversary of the Territorial Assembly establishing Colorado School of Mines as a publicly supported institute of higher education, the campus community came together to celebrate Mines' newest building, the 37,000-square-foot Labriola Innovation Hub.
Let’s make the sesquicentennial edition of #idigmines Giving Day the most successful ever! 
The District is home to one of the largest collections of innovation and maker spaces on any university campus in the U.S.
Denver entrepreneur Joe Cornell has made an estate gift to Mines that should, at its peak and in perpetuity, fund half of 50 rural students’ tuition and half of their board while they live on campus
Lafrancois is creating a framework for non-business majors and minors to develop a set of credentials under the umbrella of "building business acumen"—a central part of the MINES@150 strategic plan.
President Melanie Westergaard ’87, Vice-President Santana Sanchez ’17, Treasurer Nahjee Maybin ’18, and Secretary Mitch Kruse ’85 form the new executive committee for the Mines Alumni Board.
Kerry Siggins ’01, Kari Gonzales ’02 and Kim Alanis ’04 MS ’05 say that playing Oredigger softball created a support system that kept them at Mines through tough personal struggles while teaching them