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Apr
23
2013
Mines' Engineers Without Borders group builds footbridge in Nicaragua
By Taylor PolodnaThe Oredigger A group of Mines students, representing Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA), travelled down to Nicaragua to the small community of Los Gomez to complete a pedestrian footbridge over the frequently flooded Rio NewsMar
13
2013
Game changer: Hybrid energy for mines
In an effort to develop energy self-reliance for mining operations, Colorado School of Mines Mining Engineering Professor Masami Nakagawa is leading a feasibility study for solar-wind hybrid power generation for the fourth largest silver mine in the NewsMar
07
2013
Braking I-70's slow slide
A slow, persistent landslide is undermining a short section of I-70, about a mile from the highest point on the nation’s Interstate Highway System. Finding a solution is a conundrum that one Mines professor is helping to unravel. Two summers ago on NewsOct
29
2012
Mines engineering students to build rural bridge in Nicaragua
The Colorado School of Mines student chapter of Engineers Without Borders-USA has raised more than $15,000 to fund the construction of a bridge in Nicaragua. The bridge project, located in the Carazo region, connects a rural community with access to NewsJul
10
2012
Mines students conduct Pagosa Springs geothermal study
The town of Pagosa Springs, Colo., depends on geothermal resources for tourism as well as a source of renewable energy -- a recent study by Colorado School of Mines’ geophysics students will aid officials there in further developing the region’s NewsJun
29
2012
From lab to solar leader: The story of Mines, NREL and PrimeStar
October 2011 was an exciting month, not only for Mines, the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) and the state of Colorado, but for solar energy in general. Coming off the purchase of Colorado-based PrimeStar Solar, Inc., General Electric (GE) NewsJun
25
2012
Water: mastering the monumental challenge
Take raw sewage flowing from a major apartment complex. Send it through a 2 millimeter screen. Let a flora of microorganisms feast on it for a while. Filter it – this time through pores just 50 billionths of a meter across. Don’t touch it with a NewsJun
19
2012
Key to Super Collaborations? Supercomputing
This is a story of humans and hardware. What happened when professors, tops in their different fields of energy research, gained campus access to a world-class supercomputer? The story began four years ago with the institutional vision to bring a NewsApr
27
2012