“The urgency is the fact that Lake Powell is nearly out of water (threatening hydroelectric power in the West). Climate change is real and we are feeling the impacts,” said Colorado School of Mines nuclear engineer Jeff King.

“But as you have less vegetation cover and soil — as it gets drier — you expect to see greater amounts of erosion,” said Karen Berry, director of the Colorado Geological Survey. “And, we find that the types of rainfall we get have been changing due ....

A new report by the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines said companies have also cited problems with supplies of cement and workers.

Colorado School of Mines engineering students are hurling themselves into what they see as the ultimate, relevant senior project: creating an electric vehicle burly enough to endure the Baja 1000 off-road race through unforgiving Mexican desert.

Walter G. Copan, vice president for research and technology transfer at Colorado School of Mines, wrote this opinion piece about the importance of protecting the Bayh-Dole Act.

“As you’re nearing the end of the winter heating season, then you get some relief, generally, in shorter-term prices for natural gas,” said Brad Handler, a senior fellow with the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines.

Ken Osgood, a Colorado School of Mines history professor with expertise in U.S.-Russian relations, said when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and people celebrated the end of the Cold War, one concern was what to do with the large number of nuclear ....

A toaster on wheels. A character out of the Pixar film “Wall-E.” A souped-up popemobile.Turns out the white autonomous shuttles moseying around Colorado School of Mines on Tuesday morning were none of the above, as onlookers observed.

“This is a huge area to cover, and there are a lot of potential sources” of slides, said Paul Santi, a professor of geology and geological engineering at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden who has studied post-fire debris flows.

Project Canary provides the monitoring technology and works with the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines, which collects the data to provide an independent analysis of the information.