Student awards

A team of Colorado School of Mines students won the women’s division of the 2024 International Mining Games hosted at Montana Technological University.

KFF Fellows each receive $12,000 in unrestricted funding to support their pursuit of careers in research.

The Ice Diggers will be one of six teams facing off head-to-head this spring at a NASA-designed test facility to see which prototype lunar excavation rover performs best.

Front Range Team, which includes Mines students Kenneth Liang and Chris Tolton, was one of eight groups named winners in the second and final round of the NASA Entrepreneurs Challenge 2023.

What do you do with produced water in the Permian Basin? What can be done to make heater treaters more efficient? Colorado School of Mines student teams took on these questions as part of the 2023 Global Energy Future Initiative (GEFI) Innov8x Challenge.

The Mines quarterback is the first Oredigger to win the national award. Matocha, the 2022 Harlon Hill winner, received his bachelor's degree in computer science in May with a 3.64 GPA and will work on a master's degree this year in his final season of NCAA eligibility.

Emmelia Ashton, a junior majoring in metallurgical and materials engineering, was awarded the scholarship as part of the 2022-2024 Hollings class. She was the only student to win from the state of Colorado this year.

The Mines Robotics Club won best robot in the under one-and-a-half-kilogram weight class at the Colorado Space Grant Consortium competition, held at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in southern Colorado.

Two of the three winning papers in the Rewilding the Colorado River Contest came from Mines sophomores.

Daniel Scarbrough, a PhD candidate in applied physics at Colorado School of Mines, was named runner up in the JenLab Young Investigator Award at SPIE Photonics West. Photonics West is the largest