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“Long hours of training both on campus and in the Edgar Experimental Mine paid off for our Mines team," mechanical engineering freshman CJ Kaufman said.

The Society of Petroleum Engineers student competition is "like ‘Jeopardy!’ but for petroleum engineers," says team co-captain Niels Snow.

Recruiters from more than 230 companies and organizations braved the weather Feb. 4 to share their job and internship opportunities with current Mines students and recent grads.

For the second year in a row, Climax Molybdenum engaged Colorado School of Mines students to think outside the box about the company's Colorado assets.

Parker Bolstad, an environmental engineering major, is the first Mines student to win the prestigious graduate fellowship to study at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

The National Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl will be held in February during the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics annual conference in Atlanta.

Connor Smith and Sarena Nguyen were among the 360 students from 90 universities in 13 countries who were named University Innovation Fellows this fall. Run by Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, UIF aims to empower students to become agents of change at their schools.

Winners of the Henderson Sustainable Development and Entrepreneurship Challenge will be named Dec. 5 following the final pitches for repurposing the Henderson Mill property.

Fighting Hunger at Mines, a student organization dedicated to addressing food insecurity at Colorado School of Mines, received the Mayor’s Gold Mine Award at the 2019 Golden Community Celebration on

The event was the first Solar Decathlon ever held in Africa and featured 18 teams from around the world, each of which were challenged to design and build on site an affordable, solar-powered net-zero-energy model house uniquely adapted to the North African climate and location.