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Building on an idea: Battery Workforce Challenge team creates electric vehicle for multi-year competition

While many college students are filling their summer breaks with internships and travel opportunities, a group of Mines students is spending theirs in the basement of Brown Hall, working on electrifying a 2024 Ram ProMaster EV van.

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

Building on an idea: Battery Workforce Challenge team creates electric vehicle for multi-year competition

Mines surveying team takes third in ASCE national competition

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

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

Alumni-owned company operates where mud meets methane

Matt Morgan honored with national award for service to geosciences

News Headlines

July 3, 2025

Mines surveying team takes third in ASCE national competition

Mines Rocket Club members pose with rocket in desert

June 13, 2025

Mines student club sends 2-stage rocket into record books

June 11, 2025

Two Mines faculty members win NASA Early Career Faculty Award

Mines Magazine

July 9, 2025

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

June 25, 2025

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

June 24, 2025

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

Videos

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

Collage of three scenes: a student tightening a pipe structure, a group solving clues in an escape room, and Jalen Thomas speaking inside a modern building. Banner text reads “Colorado School of Mines – How an Escape Room Idea Became a Startup.”

VIDEO: Mines alum brings escape room startup to life with support from campus innovation ecosystem

Four Colorado School of Mines undergraduate students sit for interviews in a library setting, each wearing Mines apparel. A banner below them reads “Colorado School of Mines Undergraduate Reflections.”

VIDEO: Class of 2025 graduates reflect on their undergraduate experience at Mines

Research

Two Mines faculty members win NASA Early Career Faculty Award

group photo of scientists in red aboard boat

Mines professor co-leading research project to investigate freshened water under the ocean floor

Native American Mining and Energy Sovereignty Initiative receives support from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

In The News

Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs hosts a proving ground for cleaning up longtime PFAS contamination

Chris Higgins, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and a host of other Mines PFAS experts, hosted a PFAS media event at the Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs. The Mines officials explained the work being done at the base to discover the best way to capture and destroy the "forever chemicals."

July 10, 2025

Trump floats a 50% tariff on copper, risking price increases for wide range of goods

Ian Lange, associate professor of economics and business, notes that because copper is used in such a wide variety of products, increases in the price of the metal can cause a general inflation in prices.

July 9, 2025

Summer research aims to mitigate PFAS contamination in southern colorado

Mines researchers are comparing the performance of a variety of PFAS technologies that are aimed at recovering and destroying the "forever chemicals." A demonstration day at Peterson Space Force Base allowed the news media a chance to learn about the work.

July 9, 2025

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