At its centennial annual conference September 23-25 in New Orleans, the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) named Jennifer L. Miskimins, PhD, PE incoming president for 2026.

Mines graduate students Kenneth Liang and Chris Tolton are helping NASA harvest, move and store energy sources on the moon.

Mines graduate student Jalen Thomas, a fullback for the Orediggers football team, is the founder and CEO of FUNtastic, a company focused on bringing interactive entertainment to Colorado. Thomas, a mechanical engineer who graduates in December after he completes a certificate in Space Resources, recruited fellow Colorado School of Mines students to develop the business. Their first product — a portable escape room.

At Colorado School of Mines, the beloved mascot is Blaster the Burro. His job is a big one to fill, and two different burros, Pepsi and Winkie, have mascot responsibilities.

Victoria O'Malley, Mines' chief marketing officer, is interviewed about the new Colorado School of Mines child care facility where she has her daughter enrolled. The Mines Early Childhood Center operated by Massachusetts-based Bright Horizons opened Sept. 16, 2024 to full-time faculty, staff and students.

“In a purely commercial sense, it has been hard to justify an investment outside of China even though there is a lot of talk,” said Roderick G. Eggert, a minerals economist at the Colorado School of Mines.

The Colorado School of Mines is celebrating 20 years of women's soccer, and no Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) team has dominated more this season than the top ranked and undefeated Orediggers. Head Coach Kevin Fickes said he never imagined coaching women's soccer, but two decades and more than 200 wins later, he's still loving it.

The Society of Women Engineers held an event at Mines where middle school girls were able to learn about several STEM fields through hands-on experiments.

Chris Tolton, Master's of Science degree student in space resources, Angel Abbud-Madrid, professor of practice in mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Space Resources at Mines, and Zack Bennett, director of the Beck Venture Center at Mines, are quoted.

Column written by Roel Snieder, Mines' W.M. Keck Distinguished Professor of Professional Development Education. Snieder created the Teaching with Heart program which focuses on enriching higher education by growing a character of love in teachers in higher education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).

Bill Zisch, the J. Steven Whisler Head of the Mining Engineering Endowed Chair at Mines, co-authored this op-ed. The piece notes the U.S. government has intensified its support for the responsible mining of critical minerals while tightening its focus on growing the critical minerals workforce.

A community-scale retrofit project in Colorado offers a path toward lowering power bills for a population that faces high levels of energy insecurity. Paulo Cesar Tabares-Velasco, Mines associate professor of mechanical engineering, leads the project and is quoted in this article.