How Much Do Students Pay to Attend Your Class?

Justin Shaffer, teaching professor of chemical and biological engineering, wrote this opinion piece about how calculating the specific cost per minute of instructional time can make instructors —and students—reconsider how they approach class time.
June 7, 2023

How a 10-Story Wood Building Survived More Than 100 Earthquakes

After a half hour, inspectors deem the building safe to enter. On the third floor, Shiling Pei, the TallWood Project’s principal investigator, examines the walls and floor. “This is exactly the results that we’re looking for, which is no structural ....
June 5, 2023

TREASURE HUNT: The first U.S. nationwide geological survey in a generation could reveal badly needed supplies of critical minerals

Yaoguo Li, a geophysicist at the Colorado School of Mines, is developing a Department of Energy (DOE) grant proposal to prospect for hydrogen source rocks with the USGS data. “We have not done anything yet,” he says. “But I can see there’s so much we ....
June 1, 2023

At long last, the glorious future we were promised in space is on the way

"We knew these were the right ideas decades ago," said George Sowers, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. "It is gratifying to see folks coming around."
May 25, 2023

EV manufacturers look ahead amid high lithium demand

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, discusses how EV manufacturers are dealing with increased competition to secure lithium used to produce batteries.
May 23, 2023

Chevron’s $7.6B purchase of PDC Energy creates the biggest oil and gas company in Colorado

“This seems like a testament to the idea that the DJ can be a core U.S. position even for a company as large as CVX,” Brad Handler, a researcher at the Colorado School of Mines’ Payne Institute for Public Policy, said in an email, referring to ....
May 23, 2023

Feds allot $33 million to study carbon capture and storage in Pueblo region

Pueblo is an ideal location for carbon capture and storage because of the area's industrial activity and subterranean rock formations, Manika Prasad, a professor of geophysics at Colorado School of Mines, told the Chieftain.
May 22, 2023

Gold mine misidentified as lithium mine, erroneously compared to oil well | Fact check

However, lithium has been found in other hard rock mines in the region, said Steve Enders, the mining engineering department head at the Colorado School of Mines.
May 19, 2023

When it comes to Colorado in the summer, 'geology is life'

Of all places in Colorado, those unexpected marvels are a few favorites of Matt Morgan, the state geologist with Colorado Geological Survey. Take it as a tip: Don’t let your gaze get stuck on the high peaks and deep canyons to the west, however ....
May 19, 2023

Colorado gets $32 million to create carbon-stuffing hub underground at Pueblo

The hub will be located in the Pueblo area, where massive carbon emissions from two power plants and cement kiln, among other major carbon producers, may need to be stuffed underground to meet state and U.S. climate change targets.
May 18, 2023