As part of the immersive, hands-on learning experience, QBE students traveled up to the Edgar Experimental Mine in Idaho Springs to take samples of the microbes living on the underground rock walls.
Dr. Walter Copan, vice president for research and technology transfer at Colorado School of Mines, testified before the U.S. House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy & Mineral Resources on June
Emmelia Ashton, a junior majoring in metallurgical and materials engineering, was awarded the scholarship as part of the 2022-2024 Hollings class. She was the only student to win from the state of Colorado this year.
The GEFI framework and collaborative mindset are having big impacts at Mines, leading to major grants, collaborative research, student innovation and industry support.
By Jenn Fields, Special to Mines Magazine The Mines Police Department is always ready to protect and serve the Oredigger community, but when an alum called on them to test his new augmented reality
For the challenge, teams had to demonstrate the prototype systems they designed and built to move lunar regolith – or moon dust – from one area to another while also sorting out larger rocks from the finer particles
Led by Mechanical Engineering's Veronica Eliasson, Mines researchers have found a way to make Direct Ink Writing, an expensive 3D-printing process for specialty materials, more accessible.
The Mines Robotics Club won best robot in the under one-and-a-half-kilogram weight class at the Colorado Space Grant Consortium competition, held at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in southern Colorado.