Student awards


Parker Bolstad, an environmental engineering major, is the first Mines student to win the prestigious graduate fellowship to study at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Fighting Hunger at Mines, a student organization dedicated to addressing food insecurity at Colorado School of Mines, received the Mayor’s Gold Mine Award at the 2019 Golden Community Celebration on
Garrett Gissler is exploring the geological events and processes that formed the Arista deposit in Mexico.
Brianne Treffner, a senior majoring in engineering physics, and Gabriel Adriano, a senior majoring in chemical engineering, will each receive a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation.
The Society for Women in Mathematics at Mines – better known as SWiM – has been honored for its professional development work by the Association of Women in Mathematics. SWiM, the Mines student
A “wearable” sensor array that could detect oil pipeline failures before they happen was the winner of The Wright Outdoor Innovation Competition. The Mines students behind Cipher Skin Orange received
Colorado School of Mines celebrated its Spring 2019 Undergraduate Commencement on May 10, conferring a total of 932 bachelor’s degrees during three ceremonies at Lockridge Arena. Kiewit CEO Bruce
A user-friendly organizable container for prescription medication won top honors at the Spring 2019 Cornerstone Design Final Competition on May 1. Cubic Solutions won first place and $1,000 for "C3: a
Sponsoring this year's symposium was CoorsTek, also the namesake of the CoorsTek Center for Applied Science and Engineering, where the year-end event was held. Here is a snapshot of some of the
A self-sustaining eco-village that would help generate sustainable income for the Maya-Itzá community in Guatemala was named the winner of the Spring 2019 Capstone Design Showcase.