Colorado Mudslide Closes Major Interstate Highway

Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with Lesli Wood, professor of geology at the Colorado School of Mines.
August 5, 2021

Drinking wastewater? It's an option whose time has come, says Colorado Springs Utilities

Christopher Bellona, associate professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Colorado School of Mines, says he's been working on direct potable water use since he was a graduate student in 2001.
August 4, 2021

Academics plus application building the future of Colorado Springs water

“Drought, climate change, wildfires and things like that, we're starting to target additional water resources that maybe we didn't really target before,” said Colorado School of Mines Associate Professor, Christopher Bellona.
August 4, 2021

New partnership looks to transfer more community college students into the Colorado School of Mines

A new partnership at the state’s community colleges aims to make it easier for students to transfer to the Colorado School of Mines, the state’s most selective public four-year university, by aligning academic requirements and classwork.
August 4, 2021

Is Petroleum Engineering Training Keeping Up with the Times?

For Jennifer Miskimins, department head and professor of petroleum engineering at Colorado School of Mines, it’s about taking care of the data’s lifecycle and embedding it in courses.
July 28, 2021

Energy Independence Doesn’t Mean What It Used To

This opinion piece was written by Mines alumnus Parker Bolstad, an active duty military intelligence officer in the U.S. Army, and Jordy Lee, the program manager for the Supply Chain Transparency Initiative at the Payne Institute for Public Policy.
July 26, 2021

Why Toxic "Forever Chemicals" are in the Blood of Most Americans

Chris Higgins, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Colorado School of Mines, was among the experts interviewed for this piece about what makes PFAS chemicals extremely useful—and extremely hard to get rid of.
July 22, 2021

Finding the F-U-N in STEM

At most summer camps, there is no need for attendees to put on safety googles and a protective jacket for any of the activities. But the Full STEM Ahead camp held at Colorado School of Mines earlier this month isn’t like most other camps.
July 21, 2021

Why Elon Musk’s Boring Company is finding that traffic is tough to fix

"They're using tunnel boring machine technology which is very similar to what i see used throughout the industry," said Mike Mooney, Grewcock Chair Professor of Underground Construction & Tunneling at Colorado School of Mines. "The unique thing about ....
July 20, 2021

Space has better internet than Antarctica. That might change

The idea is especially dear to ice experts, said Matthew Siegfried, a glaciologist at the Colorado School of Mines, at the workshop. To really understand what’s happening to the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists need to collect data from sites all ....
July 19, 2021