Guam's best-kept secret could soon be most important factory for the US Navy

Colorado School of Mines is partnering in Guam with the Applied Science and Technology Research Organization of America (ASTRO) and the University of Guam to build a pipeline of locally trained mechanical engineers.
May 12, 2026

Contamination, climate change and political drama stall clean water for Colorado’s Arkansas Valley

This article is authored by Lucas Bessire, professor of anthropology and co-director of the Center for Ethnography at Mines.
May 11, 2026

Command of the interconnect: The hidden infrastructure war beneath artificial intelligence

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, warns that the United States' AI ambitions could be restrained by a shortage of a little-known semiconductor material, indium phosphide.
May 11, 2026

Building up the quantum workforce: an undergraduate route into industry

Mines' new undergraduate degree program in Quantum Systems Engineering will welcome its first cohort of students this fall.
May 11, 2026

Is the South Platte River full of microplastics? This Ph.D candidate is finding out

Ann Marie Mozrall, PhD candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is researching the presence of microplastics in the South Platte River.
May 8, 2026

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

Mines’ capstone work demonstrates inventions and experience

Mines' Capstone Design Showcase featured a multitude of innovative student projects, including one from a team that partnered with Bennett’s Longhopes Donkey Shelter to build an autonomous poop-scooping robot.
May 4, 2026

Global copper demand outstrips supply, threatening electrification and industrial growth

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, co-authors this piece about how demand for copper is surging while copper suppliers are struggling to keep up and are likely to fall even further behind in the coming years.
May 3, 2026

Company behind proposed mine near the Boundary Waters has history of conflict with locals in Chile

Corby Anderson, professor of mining engineering and director of the Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy, says copper miners across the globe are dealing with lower grade ore and trying to find out how to produce more of the metal.
May 3, 2026

Climate change is altering when water is available, study finds

A study by Adrienne Marshall, assistant professor of geology and geological engineering, and Steven Smith, associate professor of economics and business, finds that water rights holders are being impacted by the climate change-driven earlier and ....
May 1, 2026