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.

 

Trump reshaped a climate program to extract more oil. This company stands to profit.

Anna Littlefield, program manager for low carbon energy technologies with the Payne Institute for Public Policy, says that valuing enhanced oil recovery equally with carbon storage could divert more investment into those companies doing enhanced oil recovery and less from the companies doing pure storage.
August 4, 2025

Raw power: how the global south can leverage the critical minerals race

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Center for Public Policy, co-authors this article about how the rise of economic nationalism and the return of territorial conquest as a normalized tool of statecraft is impacting the international critical minerals market.
August 2, 2025

Shifting centers of power: toward a post-westphalian world order

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Center for Public Policy, co-authors this opinion piece about the Russian-Ukraine war and the conflict in Gaza.
August 2, 2025

‘Excited’ Orediggers move into new Mines Park apartment buildings

Mary Elliott, executive director of residence life and auxiliary services, talked to the Golden Transcript about the opening day for students to move into the new Village at Mines Park. The community for upperclassman and graduate students includes five large new apartment buildings as well as 19 newly-renovated smaller apartment buildings
August 1, 2025

A River Runs Under It: Scientists drill beneath the seafloor for signs of fresh water.

Brandon Dugan, professor of geophysics, discusses the drilling expedition he's leading this summer off the coast of New England to study the freshwater system that lies deep beneath the ocean floor.
July 31, 2025

These are the best Colorado colleges, according to Money magazine

Colorado School of Mines was the only Colorado university to receive 4.5 stars or make any of Money magazine’s “best of” lists. in Money's latest ranking, Mines was recognized as one of the best colleges in the west as well as one of the best public colleges in the U.S.
July 31, 2025

CSU records largest-ever waveform resulting from earthquake near Russia

Enrique Chon, a geologist with the Colorado Geological Survey located at Colorado School of Mines, explains why it's so difficult to predict the size of a tsunami. The wave generated by the recent Russian earthquake wasn't nearly as big as feared.
July 30, 2025

Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity

Elizabeth Reddy, assistant professor in the Department of Engineering, Design and Society, is quoted expressing her disappointment that Google's earthquake early warning system failed to accurately alert people during Turkey's deadly quake of 2023.
July 28, 2025

Washington is jumping into rare earths. Investors have run the other way.

Rod Eggert, research professor of Economics and Business, says that the likelihood of any of the new U.S. rare earth projects reaching the production stage is low because of the challenges inherent in the arena.
July 26, 2025
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