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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Colorado high school teachers demonstrate their newly-learned robotics skills after completing a 6 week course at Mines on robotics and AI.

Corby Anderson, professor of mining engineering, said in terms of deep sea mining for critical minerals the U.S. is decades behind China, and it’s going to be very hard to catch up.

Rod Eggert, research professor of economics and business, explains that China's attempt to clean up the mining and processing of rare earths ironically resulted in a black market for less expensive rare earths that were smuggled out of the country. These smuggled rare earths were obtained and processed with little regard for the environment.

Mines doctoral student Connor Denney and recent Mines graduate Logan Pauli are among the founders of a new firm focused on making quantum amplifiers. The company will soon move to Quantum Commons, a 70-acre business park in Arvada managed by the consortium Elevate Quantum.