Research

The prestigious program — the oldest continuous graduate fellowship of its kind — provides three years of support for the graduate education of individuals who have demonstrated potential for significant achievements in the STEM disciplines.

Students in the Design for a Globalized World class worked on a seemingly small problem with a big impact on the environment.

The $360 million Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology aims to develop and deliver national hydrological analyses, forecast information, data and guidance to inform emergency management and water supply decisions.

"With access to Frontera, publicly available data from all around the world, and the power of our modeling tools, we've started approaching the continental-scale resolution in our global full wave inversion models," said Ebru Bozdag, assistant professor of geophysics at Mines.

More specifics – and more participation in the burgeoning field of CCUS – are still needed to meet the challenge of climate change, said the director of Colorado School of Mines’ first-of-its-kind online graduate certificate in CCUS.

Colorado School of Mines is pleased to announce a partnership agreement with Hitachi High-Tech Canada, Inc. (HTC) that creates a new world-class electron beam analytical facility on the university’s Golden, Colorado campus

Mike McGuirk, assistant professor of chemistry, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for research that could contribute to the discovery of new materials for solar energy production, low density conductors and more.

Lesli J. Wood, Weimer Distinguished Chair and Professor of Geology and Geological Engineering at Colorado School of Mines, was recently recognized with two major awards in her field.

“The national data has caught up with the reality that Mines is a highly active research institution,” said Walter G. Copan, vice president for research and technology transfer at Colorado School of Mines.

Applied mathematics and statistics researchers at Colorado School of Mines contributed to a new study that showed even slight exposure to light can prompt the critical sleep-promoting hormone melatonin to plummet in preschoolers in the hour before bedtime.