Mines students build new type of cattle guard for City of Boulder

Mines seniors Ava Watson, mechanical engineering, and Ashley Doehner, design engineering, discuss an accessible cattle guard their team designed for its Senior Capstone Project completed for its client, City of Boulder Open Space and Parks.
May 5, 2026

Mines club rugby hits the capitol

Colorado Lieutenant Governor Dianne Primavera congratulates Mines' women's rugby team for winning the national championship.
February 12, 2026

School of Mines launches nation's first quantum systems engineering bachelor's degree

Fred Sarazin, department head/professor of physics and Mines director of quantum, joined Fox31 morning news hosts to discuss why Mines decided to launch a bachelor's degree program in quantum systems engineering.
January 21, 2026

Why aren’t more power lines buried in Colorado?

Quihua Huang, associate professor of electrical engineering, says that burying power lines is a very expensive proposition as compared to using overhead lines.
December 19, 2025

Colorado School of Mines student apprentices to build new dorms

Colorado Governor Jared Polis visits the Mines campus to discuss a new program where new dorms are being built with the help of student apprentices. It's part of a state program that connects students with hands-on training.
June 26, 2025

Colorado School of Mines hosts cardboard boat races

FOX31 reported on Mines' Cardboard Boat Race, a big part of the annual E-Days celebration. E-Days stands for Engineering Days. The 2025 celebration marked the 91st edition of Engineering Days at Mines.
April 12, 2025

Girls on the Rise event aims to spark interest in STEM for young girls

The Society of Women Engineers held an event at Mines where middle school girls were able to learn about several STEM fields through hands-on experiments.
November 5, 2024

From Mines to the mountaintops: M Climb welcomes new students to campus

Colorado School of Mines welcomed 1,774 first-year and transfer students in traditional Mines fashion on Friday morning. Eager to attend the school and elevate their academic careers, the students had to first make their way up a physical elevation ....
August 16, 2024

Denver area youth experience hands-on engineering at Girls are SMART conference

“By introducing it at a young age, it gets them interested a lot earlier, and shows them more options that they can go into,” said Mary Nimey, a member of the Society of Women Engineers.
March 9, 2024

Could Colorado see a major earthquake like Turkey and Syria?

“We do have faults in Colorado with maximum credible earthquakes above magnitude 7,” said Kyren Bogolub, a seismologist with the Colorado Geological Survey. “The largest maximum credible earthquake for a fault in Colorado is 7.5, and that’s on the ....
February 6, 2023