Adrianne Kroepsch, associate professor of humanities, arts, and social sciences, has found that the first anniversaries of catastrophic wildfires were the most promising periods for tough policy conversations in local media outlets.

Article notes Interlune is working with the Mines on the design of an implement that could be used to dig trenches or excavate lunar soil.

Article notes Mines ranked as the top university in Colorado in U.S. News & World Report’s most recent ranking of colleges and universities in the U.S. In the magazine's global rankings, four other Colorado universities placed ahead of Mines.

Iris Bahar, department head and professor of computer science, talked with NPR's The Indicator podcast from Planet Money about Moore's Law.

Article references new study by Adrienne Marshall, a computational hydrologist and assistant professor of geology and geological engineering, that predicts how snowpack will be impacted by climate change.

Chris Dreyer, professor of practice in the space resources graduate program, explained the most likely source for helium-3 on the moon is from ilmenite, a titanium-iron oxide that absorbs the gas.

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, says that Silicon Valley can pour all the capital it wants into new-age mining: It won't change the fact that it's a tough industry plagued by a shrinking labor pool.

Brennan Sprinkle, assistant professor of applied mathematics and statistics, was a collaborator on a new study that disproved the age old "silly" sprinklers theory.

Metallic Minerals Corp.'s La Plata project has been selected as one of two initial test systems for a U.S. DOE-supported research initiative led by Mines to apply AI to critical minerals exploration.

Morgan Bazilian co-authors this piece which notes that for several strategic minerals—plus rare earths—the greatest supply risk lies in processing, not geological scarcity.

Adrienne Marshall's study found climate change made the drought in the Western U.S. 14 times more likely in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Marshall is a computational hydrologist and an assistant professor of geology/geological engineering.

NPR's Mountain West News Bureau interviewed Adrienne Marshall, a computational hydrologist, about her PNAS study looking at the recent drought across the west.