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Colorado School of Mines launches $7M research center to evaluate PFAS destruction technologies

Mines is leading a new center to advance PFAS destruction technologies, helping industry validate, scale and deploy effective, data-driven remediation solutions.

Colorado School of Mines to support establishment of center of excellence in Uzbekistan focused on critical minerals and mining

Mines advances purpose-driven, entrepreneurial engineering education through campuswide initiative

Colorado School of Mines launches $7M research center to evaluate PFAS destruction technologies

VIDEO: Tour one of world's only university-owned mines

Colorado School of Mines announces critical minerals collaboration with National Laboratory of the Rockies

Stan Hickory to join Colorado School of Mines as McNeil Center director

NSF program to sponsor undergraduate scholarships in ceramic engineering at Mines

News Headlines

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May 7, 2026

Mines advances purpose-driven, entrepreneurial engineering education through campuswide initiative

May 5, 2026

Colorado School of Mines announces critical minerals collaboration with National Laboratory of the Rockies

May 1, 2026

Stan Hickory to join Colorado School of Mines as McNeil Center director

Mines Magazine

April 14, 2026

Mines alum helps global sportswear company set the pace with better data

April 7, 2026

Alumni-founded company is finding opportunity in mining waste

March 31, 2026

Mines alum turns opportunity into impact for next generation of physicists

Videos

Students wearing hard hats sit in an underground classroom during a tour of the Edgar Experimental Mine, with text reading “Drilled by students” and arrows pointing to mine features.

VIDEO: Tour one of world's only university-owned mines

Bailey Burns with a background depicting a Blue Origin lunar lander and text reading "From Mines to the Moon."

From Mines to the Moon: Mines alum engineers NASA Artemis V lander for Blue Origin

Four smiling graduate students shown in split screens with the text Colorado School of Mines Graduate Reflections.

VIDEO: Master's and PhD graduates on their Mines experience

Research

Colorado School of Mines launches $7M research center to evaluate PFAS destruction technologies

Colorado School of Mines announces critical minerals collaboration with National Laboratory of the Rockies

Nature Water study reveals how climate change is reshaping who gets water and when

In The News

Military’s selection of Buckley base as possible site for nuclear microreactor spurs questions in Aurora

Thomas Albrecht, professor of chemistry and the director of the Nuclear Science and Engineering Center, explains that microreactors use nowhere near the amount of water that traditional and much bigger nuclear power plants require.

May 7, 2026

Colorado School of Mines launches research center on PFAS destruction technologies

Mines' new PFAS Remedial Technology Engineering Center will bring together academic researchers, industry leaders and engineering practitioners to serve as a national hub for the evaluation, validation and advancement of PFAS treatment technologies.

May 6, 2026

Mines students build new type of cattle guard for City of Boulder

Mines seniors Ava Watson, mechanical engineering, and Ashley Doehner, design engineering, discuss an accessible cattle guard their team designed for its Senior Capstone Project completed for its client, City of Boulder Open Space and Parks.

May 5, 2026

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