Dale Gaubatz, who heads Mines’ admissions office, said colleges and universities have had test requirements for decades, but the number of underrepresented students hasn’t changed much.

“The sheer scale of these things is sort of amazing. It's almost impossible to imagine,” said Sara Hastings-Simon, an energy expert at the Payne Institute of Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines.

About 70 percent of classes will have an in-person component.

“I see the events as a dramatic and dark day in the history of our democracy,” political specialist Ken Osgood said. Osgood is also a history professor at Colorado School of Mines.

And Kevin Cannon, a planetary scientist at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, thinks that the small amounts of contamination introduced by exploring the Moon’s ice are far outweighed by the scientific advances of figuring out where and how all ....

"If you can figure out a way to tap that, you can get a phenomenal amount of energy,” says Will Fleckenstein, an engineering professor studying unconventional drilling at the Colorado School of Mines.

Jeff Ackerman, a professor at the Colorado School of Mines, is trying to help Coloradans be environmentally friendly during the coronavirus pandemic.

The study, published last week in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, shows that “we really need to not ignore this potential exposure,” said Juliane Brown, lead author and an environmental engineering Ph.D. candidate at the School of ....