Lauren Shumaker

Director of Thorson First-Year Honors, Teaching Associate Professor

CONTACT

303-273-3013​
Honors and Scholars House
1704 Illinois Street
shumaker@mines.edu

Lauren has been at Mines since 2016 and joined the honors team in 2018, where she now directs Thorson First-Year Honors and teaches collaborative, interdisciplinary courses in Thorson and McBride. Lauren received her Ph.D. in sedimentary geology from Stanford University, where she studied the dispersal and deposition of sediments in deep-marine environments in New Zealand. 

Prior to graduate school, Lauren earned a combined Earth sciences/anthropology degree from University of California, Santa Cruz, where she gained a lifelong appreciation for hands-on learning, interdisciplinary education, and the role of the humanities in STEM fields. Outside of work, Lauren enjoys reading, rock climbing, visual arts of all kinds, and spending time with her husband, daughter, and dog.

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