Opinion: Removing patent rights to lower drug costs is dangerous precedent

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.
April 6, 2022

Coloradans seeing their heating bills go up and up, keeping agencies busy

“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.
February 28, 2022

Ukrainians in Colorado rally in solidarity with their homeland as Polis says state will ensure it’s not supporting Russia

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 ....
February 24, 2022

Hands-free on a whole new level: Driverless shuttles debut on Colorado School of Mines campus

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.
August 11, 2021

Glenwood Canyon mudslides could continue beyond this year as CDOT is “left to the whims of nature”

“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.
July 2, 2021

Colorado oil and gas company aims to produce “cleanest molecules” anywhere

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.
May 13, 2021

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