Lunar prospectors: the businesses looking to mine the moon

Angel Abbud-Madrid, professor of practice in mechanical engineeering and director of the Center for Space Resources, says we need to consider the environmental impacts associated with plans to mine the moon.
April 1, 2026

US datacenters face slew of problems amid grassroots protests against AI

Quihua Huang, associate professor in electrical engineer and leader of the Power, Intelligence and Computing Lab, says demand for grid equipment, like transformers, has spiked, but only one plant in the US produces the type of steel needed for many ....
February 24, 2026

US oil firms pumping secret chemicals into ground and not fully reporting it

John Spear, professor of civil and environmental engineering, warns that the subsurface may not be equipped to handle the chemicals from fracking and could spread them unpredictably.
May 20, 2025

“Those are the questions we’re grappling with.” Mines professor appears in The Guardian

The Thursday, May 23 issue of The Guardian, a large British news organization, includes a story on contamination by poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on and around some US military bases. Titled “A Trail of Toxicity,” the piece features ....
May 23, 2019

Mines professor highlighted in Guardian article on turning food waste into glass

February 16, 2015