Victoria O'Malley, Mines' chief marketing officer, is interviewed about the new Colorado School of Mines child care facility where she has her daughter enrolled. The Mines Early Childhood Center operated by Massachusetts-based Bright Horizons opened Sept. 16, 2024 to full-time faculty, staff and students.

Colorado School of Mines purchased the industrial property a month ago for about $14 million, university President Paul Johnson told the Denver Business Journal.

It makes sense for Energy Fuels, owner of the country’s only operational uranium ore mill, to be a booster for uranium-fueled nuclear power, but there’s little reason for anyone else to expect a uranium economy renaissance, said Ian Lange, the ....

“We’re already starting to get that kind of synergy where the companies come in, the investors come in, companies bring more investors, investors bring more companies, and ... it becomes a place to be for those connections,” Zach Bennett, founding ....

Out of 16 projects funded as part of this program, two hail from Colorado. Colorado School of Mines in Golden is set to receive $1.5 million and Denver-based clean energy startup Koloma will get $900,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Colleges and universities in Colorado have been trying to broaden the population of students they welcome into their hallowed halls. Colorado School of Mines received an influx of funds to accomplish that goal for rural students, who enter higher ....

Richard C. Holz, the provost of Colorado School of Mines, agrees. “AI and digital literacies are fundamental skills that students will need in their respective fields and as public citizens and consumers for the rest of their lives,” he said in an ....

The researchers found a way to treat PFAS "so they're not 'forever' anymore," said Timothy Strathmann, the lead inventor of the technology and a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Mines.

[Mines'] average first-year retention rate came in at 92% while several universities on the list turned in first-year retention rates below 50%. “We've been consistently right around that retention rate, even during Covid, which was pretty amazing,” ....

The steel lining of oil wells can corrode as they age, leaving open the possibility that long-lasting chemicals used during fracking could migrate to aquifers over time, said John Spear, a Colorado School of Mines professor who studies subsurface ....