Students

Colorado School of Mines awarded a total of 286 bachelor's degrees during the morning ceremony on Dec. 13.

Winning the competition – and the $1,000 grand prize – was a solution for the thousands of obsolete airplanes currently warehoused in what are essentially plane graveyards.

The undergraduate ceremony will start at 9 a.m. in Lockridge Arena, with the graduate ceremony to follow at 2 p.m.

A prosthetic device designed to give transgender men the functionality and look of a natal male penis is the winner of the Fall 2019 Capstone Design Showcase.

Mitch Cutts, lead singer, pianist and guitarist of Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners, is majoring in computer science and working to tour with his band in 2020.

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.

Michael Knight, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and president of the Mines Veterans Alliance, shares some of the resources now available for former service members at Mines.

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