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5 Questions with George Saunders: What STEM students asked the acclaimed author and Mines alum

George Saunders ’81 returns to Mines to explore how art and science shape each other in a candid Q&A – with questions submitted by current Mines students and recent graduates.
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5 Questions with George Saunders: What STEM students asked the acclaimed author and Mines alum

Business engineering teaches STEM-minded undergraduates to be industry leaders

Arthur Lakes Library honored as 2025 Library of the Year by U.S. Government Publishing Office

Mines honored with flown space memento from Lockheed Martin Orion leaders

Robert Johnston joins Payne Institute for Public Policy as senior research fellow

Potential Gas Committee reports 15 percent increase to future natural gas supplies in the United States, the highest reported level on record

USGS and Mines forge new ground in critical minerals research with state-of-the-art facility

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Business engineering undergrad program
September 29, 2025

Business engineering teaches STEM-minded undergraduates to be industry leaders

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September 25, 2025

Arthur Lakes Library honored as 2025 Library of the Year by U.S. Government Publishing Office

President Johnson, Paul Anderson and others pose with Orion artifacts on football field
September 25, 2025

Mines honored with flown space memento from Lockheed Martin Orion leaders

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Tisi Barlock
July 9, 2025

Economist turned energy leader: "Coming to Mines was the first step"

Andrea Giola on a bike
June 25, 2025

In a career path fueled by endurace, Mines alum starts athletic performance business

Lori Tunstall poses by concrete mixers
June 24, 2025

New fellowship program helping to turn Mines faculty research into startup reality

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Rendering of the future Mines–USGS Energy and Minerals Research Facility, showing a modern, multi-story building with large glass windows, elevated walkways, landscaped terraces, and people walking around the exterior plaza at sunset.

USGS and Mines forge new ground in critical minerals research with state-of-the-art facility

Two Colorado School of Mines students wearing safety vests, hard hats, and headlamps examine the rock ceiling inside the Edgar Experimental Mine using a mounted inspection camera. The underground setting is lit with work lights, revealing rough stone walls.

Colorado School of Mines is shaping the future of mining

A gloved hand holds a small metal scoop of processed mine tailings in a laboratory setting. Behind it, lab equipment and a mixing drum are visible. Overlaid text reads: “Rebuilding with Mining Waste – Inside the lab.”

VIDEO: Mines researchers turn mine tailings into high-performance construction materials

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Rendering of the future Mines–USGS Energy and Minerals Research Facility, showing a modern, multi-story building with large glass windows, elevated walkways, landscaped terraces, and people walking around the exterior plaza at sunset.

USGS and Mines forge new ground in critical minerals research with state-of-the-art facility

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Snow melts earlier in burned forests, new Science Advances study finds

Molybdenum mine in the mountains seen from above

Media tip sheet: Economics of critical minerals

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Colorado-based startup fills gap in quantum market thanks to vision from School of Mines graduates

Connor Denney, a PhD candidate in electrical engineering, and Logan Pauli, master's graduate in quantum engineering, created a quantum amplifier company, Bifrost, that has secured $4 million dollars in seed funding.
October 6, 2025
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The mystery of how quasicrystals form

Brennan Sprinkle, assistant professor of applied mathematics and statistics, recently induced microspheres called Dynabeads to assemble into a quasicrystal.
October 5, 2025
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U.S. Government Publishing Office honors Arthur Lakes Library at School Of Mines

Arthur Lakes Library is named the 2025 Federal Depository Library Of The Year by the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
October 3, 2025
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