Colorado School of Mines encourages STEM educators to look beyond course design and pedagogy to embrace a character of love and teach with heart.
May 1, 2023
Colorado leaders are rallying against a railway project that would carry crude oil along the Colorado River
Luis Zerpa, associate professor at the Colorado School of Mines Petroleum Engineering Department, says those waxy properties have historically been seen as a barrier to shipping that type of oil. “So that’s the problem with the waxy oils is they have ....
April 27, 2023
Chile Is Nationalizing Lithium. It May Not Go How Nervous Investors Expect.
Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, co-authored this opinion piece about the potential impact of Chilean President Gabriel Boric's recent announcement to nationalize the country’s lithium industry.
April 26, 2023
Mars on Earth: What months of simulated astronaut missions taught this scientist
Meet Anastasia Stepanova, a PhD student in space resources at the Colorado School of Mines here in Golden, and a veteran of multiple missions here on Earth that simulate the conditions human crews would experience during spaceflight or long-duration ....
April 21, 2023
A massive cavern beneath a West Antarctic glacier is teeming with life
Scientists would love to know whether that flood actually passed through this cavern. “Connecting this upstream to the lake system would be extremely cool,” says Matthew Siegfried, a glaciologist at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, who ....
April 21, 2023
Starship Launch Ushers In a New Space Economy
“There’s just really not a business case to bring precious metals back to Earth,” George Sowers, a professor in the Space Resources program at the Colorado School of Mines, told me in a recent conversation. Instead, Sowers, and a growing number of ....
April 20, 2023
Our National Security Depends on Intellectual Property
Walter G. Copan, vice president for research and technology transfer at Colorado School of Mines, wrote this opinion piece about the importance of intellectual property rights under the Bayh-Dole Act.
April 19, 2023
Biden’s EV bet is a gamble on critical minerals
“No one … has any idea whether that’s correct or not,” said Morgan Bazilian, public policy professor at the Colorado School of Mines.
April 18, 2023
Cleantech startup to commercialize PFAS-destroying method invented at Colorado School of Mines
The researchers found a way to treat PFAS "so they're not 'forever' anymore," said Timothy Strathmann, the lead inventor of the technology and a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Mines.
April 17, 2023
Mines students test skills, knowledge in annual cardboard boat races
For months, Colorado School of Mines students have been collecting cardboard — everything from moving boxes and TV boxes to 24-packs of beer and pizza boxes — in preparation for this day.