Colorado School of Mines basketball on verge of program history in NCAA Division II tournament

Mines, a program built off of continuity, takes on Lincoln Memorial in Evansville, Ind., where a win would secure the school’s first Final Four berth.
March 23, 2021

Don’t sweat the SATs? Colorado colleges support push to deemphasize test results in admissions

The executive director of admissions at the Colorado School of Mines, Dale Gaubatz, conducted an analysis sorting the SAT scores of students graduating between 2021 and 2024 by Colorado zip code using 2019 socioeconomic data.
March 22, 2021

Power cuts in Texas and elsewhere could cost Colorado energy consumers

“Colorado has gone through the exercise of weatherizing the system. Overall it seems that Colorado has been preparing very well,” said Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden.
February 20, 2021

Oil prices and demand may be up, but the industry has a host of issues to sort out in 2021

But Brad Handler, a senior fellow at the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines, said the markets want companies to stay focused on delivering financial returns instead of the debt-fueled growth of recent years.
February 10, 2021

In Colorado, President Biden’s energy leasing moratorium on public lands brings praise, lawsuit

Brad Handler, senior fellow for public policy at the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines, said he believes the near-term impact of the leasing moratorium will be much less than the industry says.
January 27, 2021

Colorado testing fish in new push to prevent health harm from toxic “forever chemicals”

For fish, state health researchers are teaming with environmental engineers at the Colorado School of Mines.
September 20, 2020

A new Wheat Ridge plant will process rare earths, which aren’t so rare but are critical for iPhones and electric cars

“The rare earths are like the vitamins of the manufacturing industry,” said Corby Anderson, the Harrison Western Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, which is not directly involved in the ....
January 12, 2020

School of Mines built a real-life Iron Man suit for new Discovery Channel series

“Iron Man’s suit is designed to be rendered on a movie screen, not fabricated,” said Craig Brice, director of the advanced manufacturing program at Colorado School of Mines.
June 9, 2019