Student awards


Colorado School of Mines awarded 45 doctorates and 385 master’s degrees at the May 8 ceremony. Spring 2025 Commencement continues Friday, May 9 with three undergraduate ceremonies.
Four Colorado School of Mines students have been awarded the 2025 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The prestigious program, which began in 1952, is the oldest continuous
Kaylyn Buchanan, a PhD student in mechanical engineering at Colorado School of Mines, has been awarded a 2025 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG). The three-year
Caitlyn Castellion and Marco Salgado among 441 students nationwide chosen for the competitive scholarship program
Colorado School of Mines’ student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers dominated at the regional Rocky Mountain ASCE Student Symposium, held April 10-12 at Colorado State University.
Mines awarded a total of 75 doctorates and 265 master’s degrees at Dec. 13 ceremony
Chris Tolton and Ken Liang, who also founded space startup Orbital Mining Corp., developed power storage and transmission solutions for lunar exploration.
Physics PhD student Drew Marino will be working with the world’s top expert in Superconducting Tunnel Junction detectors.
“We got to see (the building) go from a sketch on notebook paper to the real thing,” said Lindsey Nenne, one of the team’s construction leaders, who graduated in May with her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.
Colorado School of Mines teams had a great showing at the 2024 All in Steel competitions, taking the top prize in one challenge and runner-up in another.