Foundation

Mines launched the MINES@150 Strategic Plan and the Campaign for MINES@150 in 2016 with big aspirations that would require strengthening affinity for Mines among our students, faculty and staff, alumni and external partners.

Colorado School of Mines alum Lowell Shonk MS ’79 and his wife, Cheryl, made a transformative $5 million gift to establish the Lowell and Cheryl Shonk Endowed Chair for the Head of the Economics and

Aramco, one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies, has made a financial gift to Colorado School of Mines’ burgeoning Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem.

Stewart and Johanna Collester Endowed Scholarship is open to Mines undergraduate students of all majors

Mines graduates are working as design and product engineers at top golf companies like PING, Callaway and Edel Golf, enhancing golf clubs, balls and other types of gear—including mobile apps—to help golfers at every level improve their game.

Read more about the Beck Venture Center grand opening on Mines Newsroom >>

Located at 17th Street and Washington Avenue in Golden, the facility offers 31,000 square feet of coworking, networking, event and classroom space for Mines-connected entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, companies and students to learn, collaborate and launch.

The CoorsTek Research Fellowship has brought 19 extraordinary PhD candidates to Colorado School of Mines since CoorsTek and the Coors family established it in 2014.

The Mining Engineering Department has some big goals for the next five to 10 years to continue 150 years of university-industry synergy.

Edgar Mine is one of only five university-owned mines in U.S. — and the only one with a Wi-Fi-enabled underground classroom.