Colorado School of Mines has been ranked fifth in the nation for return on tuition investment 20 years after graduation in the PayScale 2017 College ROI Report.

PayScale pegged the 20-year net return on investment for Mines graduates at $883,000 by calculating the difference between 20 years of median pay for a bachelor's degree holder and 24 years of media pay for a high school graduate, minus four years of in-state tuition totaling $123,000.

Colorado School of Mines engineering physics student Katherine Schneider has been awarded a $3,000 scholarship by the American Council of Engineering Companies of Colorado.

Schneider received the Sandy Donnel Memorial Scholarship, which recognizes an engineering student for outstanding community service. Schneider has been involved in the Boy Scouts of America Western Region and tutors and mentors K-12 students. The scholarship was established in 2015 to honor ACEC Colorado’s executive director of 25 year

Chemical and Biological Engineering Professor Carolyn Koh, who holds the William K. Coors Distinguished Chair, has been recognized for her service on the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board's Task Force on Methane Hydrates.

Thomas Boundy, a PhD candidate in metallurgical and materials engineering, has been awarded the Recycling Research Foundation's 2016 National Scholarship.

Dr. Ian Lange, assistant professor with the Division of Economics and Business and director of the Mineral and Energy Economics program, was awarded funding from the Department of Energy in conjunction with Resources for the Future to study the impact of federal coal leasing policy on (non-federal) Eastern coal mine operations.

John Mangum, a PhD candidate in materials science, has been awarded the Goldstein Scholar Award, which will help fund his travel to North Carolina State University to study Ti valence states at atomic scale using electron energy-loss spectroscopy.

The award, sponsored by the Meteoritical Society and Springer, seeks to promote career advancement for early career members of the Microanalysis Society, increase interactions of junior and established microanalysts, and advance microanalysis measurements.

Interim Department Head in Geology and Geological Engineering M. Stephen Enders has been selected as the 2016 recipient of the Ralph W. Marsden Award by the Society of Economic Geologists. This award recognizes significant volunteer contributions to the Society, of which Enders has been a member for 35 years. 

Hugh Miller, an associate prrofessor in the Department of Mining Engineering, has been selected as the 2017 recipient of the AIME-SME Mineral Industry Education Award by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration.

Interim Department Head for the Department of Geophysics Roel Snieder has been named 2016 Outstanding Educator by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.