Davis named Honorary Professor at GERENS, Peru

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Mines’ Division of Economics and Business welcomes Professor Graham Davis back from teaching in Peru at GERENS Graduate School where he was named as the school’s first Honorary Professor. GERENS is a private university in Lima established in 1998 by a group of academics and investors to provide quality graduate education in Peru. Davis accepted this honor from Professor Jesus Armando Gallegos Monteagudo, Director General of GERENS.

Pei receives 2016 USFS Wood Innovation Award

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Assistant Professor Shiling Pei received the 2016 Wood Innovation Award from the USDA Forest Service for his project, "Expanding Cross Laminated Timber Market through Building Moisture Monitoring and Improved Modeling." The three-year project will receive a grant of $249,996 from the Forest Service to collect data on cross laminated timber (CLT) building mositure performance and modeling. Pei is the grant's Principal Investigator (PI), and Assistant Professor Paulo Cesar Tabares-Velasco (ME) is the co-PI.

Mines researchers co-edit, contibute to volume of Society of Economic Geologists

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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.”
 

University Emeritus Professor of Physics to present at International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor

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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.