Delivering possibilities through record-breaking private investment: 2025 Impact Report

On April 10, 2025, Mines marked an incredible milestone: $550 million in community support through the Campaign for MINES@150, aimed at helping to deliver present and future possibilities for students. 

We are celebrating the individuals, foundations and companies who have invested in Mines’ excellence by sharing stories about the impact of their gifts. The Spring 2025 Campaign Impact Report, You Make Mines, features inspiring donors, students, faculty members and staff:

• Cultivating the next generation of leaders through the Grewcock Presidential Scholars Program, featuring three current and past Grewcock Scholars
• The Ben Fryrear Chairs for Innovation and Excellence, which give faculty financial support to build programs that advance Mines, including the Office of Undergraduate Research
• A world-renowned cancer research pioneer and Mines physics graduate who made a $5 million investment in faculty to seek out innovative approaches for solving existential issues—and to honor his late wife
• Three softball alumni who raised $170,000 to help replace the grass softball field with turf, building community along the way
• Mines assistant professor Lori Tunstall, an unexpected entrepreneur, who launched her company ZeroTwelve using the startup incubator and other resources at the Beck Venture Center
• A scholarship for Mines football players and petroleum engineering majors, established by alumni to honor their parents’ dedication to ensuring they both could attend Mines
• A Mines alum— now CEO of an iconic T-shirt company—who gives back time, talent and treasure to the Mines Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem
• An alumni-established scholarship in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering designed to entice undergrads to pursue Mines’ new ceramic engineering degree
• A prominent corporate gift to the Edgar Experimental Mine, which is helping to modernize the facility for the thousands of students, faculty, external researchers and visitors who come through the mine every year
• The Executive Seminar Series in Mines’ Engineering and Technology Management master’s degree, started by an alum who fast-tracked his own career using his Mines degree
• The Challenge Program, funded by industry to ensure that students who may not have had access to advanced math and science classes in high school can excel at Mines
• Mines Foundation Dignitaries, students who are learning to be leaders on campus and spread philanthropy among their peers through an innovative program
• The impact of #idigmines Giving Day in supporting campus causes and uniting Orediggers around the world

Flip through the Spring 2025 Impact Report publication and read all the stories here: https://campaign.mines.edu/impact-report