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Buckle up: Is Waymo ready for Denver’s winter roads and angry drivers?
Frankie Zhu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, discusses the challenges a driver-less Waymo taxi will have when it attempts to traverse ice and snow on Denver's streets.
October 14, 2025
Mines grad’s app helps solve access question for some of Colorado’s 704,000 acres of inaccessible public lands
Zack Bennett, director of The Beck Venture Center, discusses Infinite Outdoors, an app started by Sam Seeton, a petroleum engineering program graduate, that allows landowners to be compensated by members of the public who wish to cross their land so they can access nearby public land.
October 13, 2025
Is nuclear power becoming cool in Colorado? Discussion of a role for it is growing
Mark Jensen, professor of chemistry, says more private money is flowing into nuclear projects than he has seen over the past 35 years.
October 13, 2025