Earth and Society

Mines students competed at the ASCE national finals in June after being named Overall Symposium Champions at the Region 7 Rocky Mountain Symposium in April.

The Mines Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem is supporting Mines-grown research that is ready to launch from the lab through the new Faculty Startup Fellowship, which give Mines professors course relief and support from Beck Venture Center to commercialize their technologies.

Teams redesigned existing systems to improve functionality for user groups with resources at Labriola Innovation Hub

Astroscale U.S. sponsored student team for work toward sustainable space exploration

The Capstone Design team developed Modular Adaptive Support Technology, or MAST, for the national competition

Colorado School of Mines’ student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers dominated at the regional Rocky Mountain ASCE Student Symposium, held April 10-12 at Colorado State University.

An anthropologist who studies energy, engineering and public accountability, Smith is one of 26 scholars across the United States – and the first Mines professor ever – selected for the prestigious honor.

Despite being just one year old, the 31,000-square-foot facility on the Mines campus is incubating 57 startups and counts more than 250 business members and more than 30 investor members.

Many Orediggers are putting their Mines education to work by contributing to greentech research and development. They’re motivated by different reasons: Some like the challenge of solving technical problems or want to do their part to protect the environment. Others enjoy the fast-moving, all-hands-on-deck atmosphere of a startup.