Rod Eggert, research professor of economics and business, explains how prevalent neodymium is in the permanent magnets that power motors of all kinds, from household tools to jet engines.

D. Vaughan Griffiths, professor and department head of civil and environmental engineering, talks about his path to academia and research, mentors along the way, and the class he wishes every graduate student in geotechnical engineering had to take.

Chris Higgins, AMAX Distinguished Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, reflects on progress, pitfalls and the path toward meaningful solutions to the PFAS problem.

Ian Lange, professor of economics and business, said the push by the U.S. and other countries to increase gallium production could create a glut of the metal causing the gallium market to crash.

Seth Tucker, teaching professor of humanities, arts and social sciences, discusses his new collection of poetry, The Cruelty Virtues.

Sara Balgooyen, research industry liaison officer for PFAS@Mines, said the news coming out of her study is great for people who are catching fish in the Great Lakes, or who care about the health of the Great Lakes.

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Affairs, co-authored this opinion piece that noted a prominent 2023 wargame found that in a defense of Taiwan, the U.S. would likely exhaust its inventory of critical long-range precision ....

Sarah Balgooyen, research industry liaison officer for PFAS@Mines, discusses her study that concluded PFAS levels peaked between 2007 and 2017 in all five of the Great Lakes.

This guest essay cites a Science article by Elizabeth Holley, associate professor of mining engineering, that concluded the U.S. could meet most of its critical minerals and rare earths needs by reprocessing mine waste streams.

Ian Lange, professor of economics and business, explained that mining companies outside of China are facing Chinese firms that are subsidized by their government and thus have zero cost of capital.

Brandon Dugan, associate department head and professor in geophysics and Baker Hughes Chair in Petrophysics and Borehole Geophysics, explained that the freshened water found in vastly different materials will help his team understand the conditions ....

Ian Lange, professor of economics and business, said it will be important the critical minerals trading bloc to have ways to keep countries from buying cheap Chinese materials on the side.