Thanks, Orediggers!

Thanks, Orediggers!

Roel Snieder

Thanks to the Mines community for dealing so well with the pandemic this semester. Thanks to our leadership team for running our school in this challenging time while setting up procedures to keep us safe and maintaining a balanced budget. Thanks to students, staff, and faculty for being careful and responsible. Thanks to all essential personnel for showing up day after day to make sure Mines can be operational, safe, and clean. Thanks to ITS for helping Mines switch to remote operations and deal with a massive flow of Zoom traffic. Thanks to the Trefny Center for supporting and encouraging teachers in adopting new ways of teaching. We are getting close to Thanksgiving, so we almost made it through the fall semester! Thank you all for making that happen.

Veronica Eliasson

I have no idea how she does it — but she stays on top of the process and several steps ahead — so we as faculty are incredibly lucky to have ORA Staff like Lauren Kitchen. She manages to submit fantastic proposals and white papers during the hairiest deadlines I can imagine. I could not do this without you! Many thanks!!!

Amelia Read

I am posting this as a Ph.D. student at Mines (though I am also teaching faculty). This semester I took CSCI 406, Algorithms, as a remote student. Dr. Dinesh Mehta, the instructor, did a phenomenal job to provide us not only with great videos with slides superimposed in post-processing to great effect, but also interacting with us via Zoom to provide us with direction and assistance on the worksheets that made it an active classroom. His flipping of exams to handle the open-book nature was...

Karen Dixon

My daughter, Maggie, was ill the week before Thanksgiving and Julie Engerman was instrumental in helping Maggie receive a proper diagnosis and treatment. Julie kept in touch with Maggie all week, advocated for her to receive additional testing and care throughout the week, and help Maggie coordinate between Urgent Care and Mines Student Health. We are so grateful for and impressed with the dedication and care that Ms. Engerman showed Maggie, especially at time when I am sure health services...