Earth and Society


Winning the semester-long design challenge – and the $1,000 grand prize – was a solution for making temporary housing for refugees more durable, sustainable and easily deployable.
The 37,000-square-foot building, located near 13th and Maple streets, will be the state-of-the-art centerpiece of the Mines Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem and the Labriola Innovation Complex.
Why did you choose to come to Mines? What have you enjoyed most about being here? I came to Mines for the environmental engineering program. I wanted to learn from great teachers and be inspired by my
When Brian Deurloo ’97 was a kid, he found out his neighbor was buying frogs—his favorite animal—at a quarter a pop. He showed up with a half-bucket of frogs. That was his first foray into entrepreneurship.
Construction on the new 33,000-square-foot facility – which will exponentially increase the scope of support for launching new businesses and ideas through Mines – could begin as soon as late 2021.
Debra Carney, teaching professor of applied mathematics and statistics at Colorado School of Mines, has been named by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) to its 2022 Class of AWM Fellows
The class, which focuses on sustainable development and earth resources, was selected by SDSN as a case study for integrating the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into resource engineering education.
In collaboration with colleagues in the United States, China and the Netherlands, Mines Assistant Professor Qin Zhu and Research Assistant Professor Rockwell Clancy are leading a project to study the
Concrete sewers and gutters are very efficient when it comes to moving water quickly. But Colorado School of Mines researchers are looking at integrating natural alternatives to the built environment to help purify and clean groundwater supplies.
Researchers at Colorado School of Mines are teaming up with Swedish company Minalyze AB to build an advanced geosciences research laboratory for non-destructive compositional analysis of drill core.