Pei receives 2016 USFS Wood Innovation Award
Assistant Professor Shiling Pei received the 2016 Wood Innovation Award from the USDA Forest Service for his project, "Expanding Cross Laminated Timber Market through Building Moisture Monitoring and Improved Modeling." The three-year project will receive a grant of $249,996 from the Forest Service to collect data on cross laminated timber (CLT) building mositure performance and modeling. Pei is the grant's Principal Investigator (PI), and Assistant Professor Paulo Cesar Tabares-Velasco (ME) is the co-PI.
Mines researchers co-edit, contibute to volume of Society of Economic Geologists
Scientists studying rare earth and critical elements now have a solid foundation for future research, as detailed in a special volume of the Society of Economic Geologists. This review volume, featuring several papers authored and co-authored by scientists at the Colorado School of Mines, provides a comprehensive review of the current state of knowledge for rare earth and critical elements in ore deposits.”
University Emeritus Professor of Physics to present at International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
Ed Cecil, University Emeritus Professor of Physics, will be presenting an invited talk of his work at a conference of lost alpha particle diagnostics from high temperature fusion plasmas at the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in Provence, France on June 27.
Ganesh receives $116K research award from NREL
Applied Mathematics and Statistics Professor Mahadevan Ganesh has received a nearly $117K research award from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to support his research 
program. This award titled "High Performance Computing and Power-aware Application Performance." Ganesh has also been appointed as a Visiting Professorial Fellow (lasting from 2016-2019) from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
Richards receives 2016 Colorado Section Research Award from American Chemical Society
Chemistry Professor Ryan Richards has been chosen to receive the 2016 Colorado Section Research Award of the American Chemical Society.
The award, started in 1967, is given annually to a Colorado chemist with an extensive and impactful career in chemistry. It is the highest honor the Colorado Section of the ACS can bestow.
Richards will receive a medallion engraved with his name, and will present an award lecture at Mines early next year.