“It’s not at all clear how you go about changing dramatically a global supply chain in practice,” said Morgan Bazilian, the director of the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines and a former lead energy specialist at the World Bank.

"Ultimately that would kind of close the cycle and actually remove PFAS from the environment, and not just transfer it somewhere where it has a chance to escape again in the future," said Timothy Strathmann, a civil and environmental engineering ....

Thomas Laing was part of a team of Mines students that helped design a rollerblade prosthetic for a military veteran through Mines' Human-Centered Design Studio.

Aquagga Inc., an emerging clean-tech company based in Tacoma, has entered an exclusive licensing agreement with the Colorado School of Mines to take technology the school developed to destroy “forever chemicals” and employ it on a commercial scale ....

Christopher Bellona, a civil and environmental engineering professor at the Colorado School of Mines, said the new EPA regulation marks a “generational shift” in water treatment in the United States.

According to principal investigator Shiling Pei, the goal of the aptly-named TallWood project is to prove that wooden buildings can withstand strong shaking without losing their structural integrity.

John Jechura, a professor of practice at the Colorado School of Mines who worked in refineries, reviewed the document. While he’s glad the company made the decision to shut down the refinery, he said Suncor Energy should still explain events like a set of fires in a “sour water stripper” area on Dec. 27.

“It is so uncertain where things are going,” said Ian Lange, director of the mineral and energy economics program at Colorado School of Mines. “There are a lot of changes that can still happen. It is hard to call anything in a battery right now ....

In 2021, female-only founders raised $91 million, about 1.2 percent of the state’s haul. These numbers are not shocking to Melissa Krebs. In 2020, the associate professor of chemical and biological engineering launched GelSana Therapeutics, based on ....

“If we want a clean energy transition, we’re going to need a lot of lithium, and mining is going to have to happen somewhere,” said Ian Lange, director of the mineral and energy economics program at the Colorado School of Mines, who has been ....

But Ian Lange, director of the mineral and energy economics program at the Colorado School of Mines, said it could take up to a decade to permit and build processing plants that can be controversial and threaten nearby communities with pollution.

Mines' multimillion-dollar investment in solar power, which included new arrays on the Korell Athletic Center, Steinhauer Fieldhouse and more, was the subject of a feature story in the March 2023 issue of Athletics Administration Magazine.