Student Life


Built in 1908 and permanently lit since 1932, the Mount Zion emblem is visible well beyond the Mines campus and the city of Golden. It will be red – in the shape of a heart – every night through the end of the semester.
Recruiters from more than 230 companies and organizations braved the weather Feb. 4 to share their job and internship opportunities with current Mines students and recent grads.
Highlights of the Spring 2020 events calendar include Spring Career Day on Feb. 4 and E-Days on April 17-19.
Mitch Cutts, lead singer, pianist and guitarist of Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners, is majoring in computer science and working to tour with his band in 2020.
Michael Knight, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and president of the Mines Veterans Alliance, shares some of the resources now available for former service members at Mines.