Research


“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.
Researchers within the Center for Advanced Subsurface Earth Resource Models at Colorado School of Mines have teamed up with Western Colorado Community College to train the next generation of pilots of unmanned aircraft systems for the minerals industry.
Walt Copan, vice president for research and technology transfer at Colorado School of Mines, is the 2022 recipient of the Baldrige Foundation Award for Leadership Excellence in the government sector.
Chemical engineering PhD student Yinan Liu was the lead author on the paper, published in the journal Applied Physics Reviews in November.
Connor Bray, a PhD student in physics, is one of four graduate students who will be hosted by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he will have access to world-class supercomputing resources and training.
PFAS, tiny chemicals that are in everything from cookware to clothing, are the focus of a recent anti-pollution plan from the federal government.
An experiment investigating the dynamics of colloidal chain systems, from a team at Colorado School of Mines, blasted off this summer to spend some time at the International Space Station. Launched in
A new $15 million interdisciplinary research institute led by Colorado School of Mines aims to create new theoretically grounded and experimentally validated approaches and tools to design and discover dynamical materials and structures while solving long-standing scientific challenges in the dynamical response of materials.
“For Mines to win the medal count really cements our position in this industry,” Professor George Sowers said. “The team that won the overall prize was a pretty large aerospace corporation – we had graduate students that went toe to toe with a professional company.”