Mines shifts academic structure to college system

UPDATE: Oct. 17, 2012 – Names of the second and third colleges have been announced. The College of Applied Science and Engineering (CASE) encompasses Chemistry and Geochemistry, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, and Physics. The College of Earth Resource Sciences and Engineering (CERSE) will encompass Economics and Business, Geology and Geological Engineering, Geophysics, Liberal Arts and International Studies, Mining Engineering, and Petroleum Engineering.

 

Colorado School of Mines professor and students work on creating a new type of concrete

Lori Tunstall, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, discusses the environmental benefits of a new type of concrete that she's developed.
December 10, 2025

Exclusive: Chilean regulator, workers flagged risk at Teck's Quebrada Blanca dam

Rennie Kaunda, associate professor of mining engineering, said cracks and leaks can be red flags for dam stability, requiring consistent monitoring and identification of the root cause.
December 9, 2025

How the oil industry's climate-change solution is surviving Trump's attack on green energy

Anna Littlefield, carbon-capture program manager at the Payne Institute for Public Policy, said the oil and gas infrastructure is similar to the infrastructure required for carbon capture operations.
December 6, 2025

Google just backed carbon capture tech for data center energy providers. Will other tech giants follow?

Anna Littlefield, low carbon energy program manager with the Payne Institute for Public Policy, and Morgan Bazilian, director of Payne, authored this opinion piece looking at Google's new investment into carbon capture.
December 4, 2025

Student-run snow removal business looking forward to change in weather

Nathan Spalding, a Mines senior, discuss how his snow removal business is finally looking up due to a forecast calling for the Denver metro area's first significant storm of the season.
December 2, 2025

Winter storms blanket the East, while the U.S. West is wondering: Where’s the snow?

Adrienne Marshall, assistant professor of geology and geological engineering, explains what forecasters are watching and how rising temperatures are affecting the future of snow in the western United States.
December 1, 2025

Great Lakes ice is thought to block evaporation. A new study says weather plays a bigger role.

Eric Anderson, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, explains that his study found evaporation is more tied to overlying weather conditions or atmospheric conditions above the Great Lakes than it is connected to ice on the lakes' surface.
December 1, 2025

In burned forests, the West’s snowpack is melting earlier

Arielle Koshkin, doctoral candidate in hydrological science and engineering, explains that an increase in sunlight and decrease in the reflectivity of the snow after a wildfire are both leading to an earlier snow disappearance date.
November 30, 2025

Trump's push to revive US coal faces weak market demand after failed lease sales

Ian Lange, professor of economics and business, explains that coal's trajectory depends less on political shifts and more on electricity demand growth, which remains uncertain.
November 26, 2025
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