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A Colorado School of Mines outreach program to engage girls in STEM has been awarded the Mayor’s 2017 Gold Mine Award for Excellence. DECTech was one of five award recipients at the City of Golden
Every year, 26,500 pounds of human waste are generated in the Everest Base Camp region of Nepal. Public sanitation in the Khumbu Valley is lacking, however, and without proper receptacles, much of the
It may be tiny, but a 220-square-foot house under construction on the Colorado School of Mines campus is about to find itself in front of a big audience. The solar-powered, net-zero Mines Tiny House
Three Mines students in the Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center (ASPPRC) have been named student representatives to the boards of ASM International societies. Mary O’Brien, Jonah
Team DiggerLoop’s drag racer-inspired Hyperloop pod may not have hit the test track but it still garnered plenty of attention at the SpaceX student competition last month. After a rigorous safety
The Colorado School of Mines Material Advantage Chapter has been named the organization’s Most Outstanding Chapter for 2016-2017 and will be recognized this October at Materials Science and Technology
The start of your first year of college can be daunting—it’s a new environment full of new experiences, new expectations, new people and, for most freshmen, even a new bed. But this year at Colorado
Incoming students at Colorado School of Mines will make their traditional trek up Mt. Zion on Friday, Aug. 18, kicking off the 2017-2018 school year and their journey as Orediggers. Students will
Summer jobs and camps are coming to an end and the Colorado School of Mines campus is waiting in anticipation for the start of the fall semester. In addition to moving into their new dorms and housing
Colorado School of Mines took second place in a NASA competition to design and build a system for extracting water from Mars’ subsurface, and learned plenty of lessons along the way. The Mars Ice