Andrew Herring, professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been named a fellow of the American Chemical Society, part of the Class of 2016.
The ACS Fellows Program, created in 2008, recognizes members for outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession, and the society.
Mines was well represented at the annual American Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE) meeting in New Orleans. More than 20 faulty were in attendance presenting papers and posters, serving on panels, and serving on association committees. Some of the papers presented included:
Scientists studying rare earth and critical elements now have a solid foundation for future research, as detailed in a special volume of the Society of Economic Geologists. This review volume, featuring several papers authored and co-authored by scientists at the Colorado School of Mines, provides a comprehensive review of the current state of knowledge for rare earth and critical elements in ore deposits.”
Ed Cecil, University Emeritus Professor of Physics, will be presenting an invited talk of his work at a conference of lost alpha particle diagnostics from high temperature fusion plasmas at the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in Provence, France on June 27.
Applied Mathematics and Statistics Professor Mahadevan Ganesh has received a nearly $117K research award from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to support his research 
program. This award titled "High Performance Computing and Power-aware Application Performance." Ganesh has also been appointed as a Visiting Professorial Fellow (lasting from 2016-2019) from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
