Wooden Skyscrapers are on the Rise

“We need to find a way to make these buildings earthquake-resistant, since it’s a new building type, and nobody’s ever done this before,” says Shiling Pei, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Colorado School of Mines and ....
April 11, 2022

Problems with presidential records are not just about Trump

Ken Osgood, professor of history at Colorado School of Mines, co-wrote this opinion piece with Jeremi Suri of the University of Texas at Austin.
April 8, 2022

Opinion: Removing patent rights to lower drug costs is dangerous precedent

Walter G. Copan, vice president for research and technology transfer at Colorado School of Mines, wrote this opinion piece about the importance of protecting the Bayh-Dole Act.
April 6, 2022

The Colorado Governor’s Citizenship Medal to be honored

Fabian Jimenez, a freshman studying civil engineering at Colorado School of Mines, is the winner of the 2021 Emerging Community Leader Medal.
April 6, 2022

Wednesday's Child: Meet Kaleb

Ryan Eto '21, coach of the Mines men's club basketball team, shoots some hoops with Kaleb in Lockridge Arena.
April 6, 2022

For Europe, quitting Russian coal will be easier than quitting Russian natural gas

Natural gas requires pipelines or special import terminals to move around the world. Coal, on the other hand, does not, noted Ian Lange, an associate professor at the Colorado School of Mines.
April 5, 2022

Precious Metal Values are Raising Battery Prices and Slowing EV Uptake

Metals markets are notoriously unstable year-over-year, according to Dr. Roderick Eggert, a mineral economics professor at Colorado School of Mines. Manufacturers, specifically carmakers who are relatively new to this market, have to adapt to that ....
April 4, 2022

Baltics cut off Russian gas, but Germany, EU face struggle

Morgan Bazilian, a public policy professor at the Colorado School of Mines, told The Hill that Lithuania eight years ago developed a floating storage and regasification unit at the country’s Klaipėda LNG terminal, which enables the country to take in ....
April 4, 2022

Biden eyes using wartime powers for minerals needed in clean energy push

“These are all things that the U.S. needs to help build up the U.S. mining industry into something that is capable of navigating the energy transition,” said Jordy Lee, a program manager at the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School ....
March 30, 2022

Russia’s role in world’s nuclear energy industry prompts calls to up U.S. uranium production

Morgan Bazilian teaches public policy at the Colorado School of Mines. “When you look around and you do a bid for who’s going to build your plant, up till two months ago, the Russian plants were a very attractive option,” Bazilian said.
March 30, 2022