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ProtoFund-Powered: Students redesign RC car parts for speed, strength and savings

A team of Capstone Design students is using the InnoHub ProtoFund to innovate RC car parts and gain real-world prototyping experience.

ProtoFund-Powered: Students redesign RC car parts for speed, strength and savings

Copan testifies before U.S. House committee on mineral and mining innovation

Lessons from a Mines alum’s path to leadership in a dynamic energy landscape

Media tip sheet: Harnessing the power of geothermal energy

Mines to open satellite campus in Guam focused on additive manufacturing

U.S. policymakers turn to Mines for trusted expertise on critical minerals

Mines alum uses her aerospace career to give back and help inspire others

News Headlines

Walt Copan sits at witness stand with people taking notes behind him

December 3, 2025

Copan testifies before U.S. House committee on mineral and mining innovation

December 2, 2025

Media tip sheet: Harnessing the power of geothermal energy

officials from University of Guam and Colorado School of Mines on UoG campus

December 2, 2025

Mines to open satellite campus in Guam focused on additive manufacturing

Mines Magazine

December 3, 2025

Lessons from a Mines alum’s path to leadership in a dynamic energy landscape

Elizabeth Holley testifies before select committee

December 1, 2025

U.S. policymakers turn to Mines for trusted expertise on critical minerals

November 26, 2025

Mines alum uses her aerospace career to give back and help inspire others

Videos

Chris Higgins stands in a field at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, leaning on a large white tank with two wooden planks on top. In the background are large machines and testing equipment, related to PFAS research.

PFAS research at Mines targets water contamination

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

Research

Copan testifies before U.S. House committee on mineral and mining innovation

Emptying aquifers creating sinkholes, economic issues worldwide

Mines researcher receives Schmidt Family Foundation funding to explore mine water treatment

In The News

Student-run snow removal business looking forward to change in weather

Nathan Spalding, a Mines senior, discuss how his snow removal business is finally looking up due to a forecast calling for the Denver metro area's first significant storm of the season.

December 2, 2025

Winter storms blanket the East, while the U.S. West is wondering: Where’s the snow?

Adrienne Marshall, assistant professor of geology and geological engineering, explains what forecasters are watching and how rising temperatures are affecting the future of snow in the western United States.

December 1, 2025

Great Lakes ice is thought to block evaporation. A new study says weather plays a bigger role.

Eric Anderson, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, explains that his study found evaporation is more tied to overlying weather conditions or atmospheric conditions above the Great Lakes than it is connected to ice on the lakes' surface.

December 1, 2025

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