Applied Mathematics and Statistics Professor Mahadevan Ganesh has received a nearly $117K research award from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to support his research program. This award titled "High Performance Computing and Power-aware Application Performance." Ganesh has also been appointed as a Visiting Professorial Fellow (lasting from 2016-2019) from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Chemistry Professor Ryan Richards has been chosen to receive the 2016 Colorado Section Research Award of the American Chemical Society.

The award, started in 1967, is given annually to a Colorado chemist with an extensive and impactful career in chemistry. It is the highest honor the Colorado Section of the ACS can bestow.

Richards will receive a medallion engraved with his name, and will present an award lecture at Mines early next year.