Phasing out coal plants worldwide won’t be easy. These four approaches could help.

Brad Handler and Morgan Bazilian of the Payne Institute for Public Policy at Colorado School of Mines wrote this opinion piece with Katie Auth of the Energy for Growth Hub.
December 2, 2021

Robot vacuums are learning to avoid dog poop. But that’s not all they can see.

“People are used to thinking about whether Alexa is listening in on their house, or what the Ring doorbell is capturing outside, but they might not realize that the existence of a camera on their vacuum could present those same types of concerns,” ....
September 14, 2021

Colorado leads the way in closing the door on legacy admission at public universities

Today, Mines is highly ranked in engineering, science, energy and environmental studies, and math, and it’s the toughest state university in Colorado to get into, with fewer than half of its applicants accepted.
July 15, 2021

Opinion: GPS is endangered by a misguided FCC decision made during the Trump administration

Matthew Siegfried, a Colorado School of Mines professor, spent nine Antarctica summers setting up GPS field stations to take satellite measures to study Antarctic snowfall.
April 14, 2021

Opinion: For cancer patients, trying to get a coronavirus vaccine is a dark comedy

Kenneth Osgood is a professor of history at Colorado School of Mines.
March 10, 2021

Biden called climate change an ‘existential threat.’ Can the U.N. Security Council help?

Morgan Bazilian ( @MBazilian ) is director of the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines.
March 2, 2021

Mooney interviewed by The Washington Post

Mike Mooney, director of the Center for Underground Construction and Tunneling and Grewcock University Endowed Chair and Professor, was recently interviewed by The Washington Post about billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's plans to build a high-speed ....
October 23, 2017
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