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.

 

Breaking the “forever” bond: Why investment in PFAS destruction technology Is starting to pick up

Timothy Strathmann, professor of civil and environmental engineering, said he and other researchers are working to ensure the next generation of PFAS destruction tools are not only effective, but also economical and energy efficient.
August 27, 2026

Study: Current snow drought likely due to human-caused climate change

Adrienne Marshall, assistant professor of Earth, Space and Planets, said first she defines a weather event and estimates how rare it was, then she looks to climate models that can simulate the event.
August 26, 2026

California’s water shortages partly due to climate pollution from big oil and gas, study finds

Adrienne Marshall, an assistant professor of geology and geological engineering, says research into the drivers of water shortages is important and becoming increasingly precise.
August 25, 2026

Execs say work needed to keep tech startups in Colorado

Stan Hickory, director of the McNeil Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, said that pre-COVID the startup ecosystem was wonderful but that COVID decimated it, and it’s taken a long time to recover.
August 23, 2026

Mines students carry rocks up Golden mountain in 118-year-old school tradition

More than 1,000 new students climbed Mount Zion, carrying hometown rocks as part of a century-old tradition.
August 21, 2026

New Colorado School of Mines students bring a piece of home for annual M Climb

In this yearly tradition that began in 1908, first-year students don hard hats and carry 10-pound rocks from their hometowns up to the "M" on the mountainside, which overlooks the Mines campus.
August 21, 2026

Colorado School of Mines welcomes new freshman class with ‘M’ climb tradition

Freshman Drew Dumbaugh told Fox31 he was jumping up and down with excitement to be able to participate in the annual "M" Climb up Mount Zion.
August 21, 2026

TERA puts an Indian tribe in charge of its energy

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, discusses the Interior Department's approval of the nation’s first Tribal Energy Resource Agreement.
August 21, 2026

‘Silt happens’: Mudslides may continue if El Niño muddies Colorado’s forecast

Paul Santi, professor of geology and geological engineering, said the larger the fire, the more watersheds that it’s covering, the more gullies, the more canyons that it has burned, the higher chance you'll have with these debris flows.
August 19, 2026
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