At Mines, undergraduate students don't have to wait years to get experience in the lab. The First-Year Innovation and Research Scholar Training Program introduces new college students to academic research with a focus on innovation over the course of their first academic year.
Over the last decade, Mines' federal, state and private research funding has grown nearly 70 percent, with awards topping $106 million in fiscal year 2024.
Dr. Tompkins, who most recently served as the 23rd director of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), brings a distinguished career in scientific research, public service and executive leadership to Mines.
What better way is there to show your OreGiver love than supporting the Mines causes you care about most to help them win part of the more than $100,000 in bonus funds?
A Mines alum, Mitchell is the State of Colorado’s Commissioner to the Upper Colorado River Commission and will serve a four-year term on the Mines board.
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.
Mines joins a consortium of 14 universities, and its imprints, the Utah State University Press, University of Wyoming Press and the University of Alaska Press
