Research & Innovation

Associate Professor Paulo Tabares Velasco speaks with a resident of Lake County, Colorado to discuss energy efficiency upgrades being made to her neighborhood.

November 7, 2023

Tabares-Velasco awarded two DOE grants for work toward energy efficiency at any income level

Heavy equipment works on clearing rubble from a collapsed building in Antakya, Turkiye after the 2023 earthquake.

November 2, 2023

Rebuilding after disaster: Mines professor working on low-emissions plan for earthquake-damaged area

Chris Higgins, University Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Mines wears a white lab coat and holds a PFAS sample.

November 1, 2023

9 PFAS treatment, destruction technologies to be tested side by side at Colorado military base

October 10, 2023

Matthew Crane wins AIChE 35 Under 35 award

Planet Earth rises above the Moon's horizon, a photo taken from space on the Apollo 8 mission in 1968.

October 2, 2023

Mines researchers get $2M from NASA to advance technology for extracting aluminum from lunar soil

A Mines undergraduate student presents his research, referring to a poster board on an easel, to an onlooker.

September 27, 2023

Student researchers share their findings at Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium

Mechanical Engineering graduate student Brendan Kearney operates the impact hammer on the Outpost Digging System on the third day of durability testing at the Colorado Air and Space Port.

September 11, 2023

Mines, Lunar Outpost test lunar excavation rover in 15-day durability demonstration

Mines students sit around a table with laptops discussing the Hearts and Gears Innovating Mobility Challenge.

September 5, 2023

First-year students put innovation skills to the test – before classes begin

The Orbital Mining team includes (back row, left to right) Dewey Gazvoda, Daniel Abel, Chris Tolton, Ken Liang, Carsten Nesgaard, (front row, left to right) Zach Thelen and Ashle Jantzen.

August 31, 2023

Mines team advances to finals in NASA Watts on the Moon Challenge

Mines alum Jacob Grasmick wears a hard hat and safety vest at a construction site where he is applying his graduate research.

August 22, 2023

Bringing academic research into the real world: Mines student research on underground construction becoming part of industry work

Frozen landscape of snow and ice with tire tracks from research vehicles in Antarctica.

August 22, 2023

Thinning ice sheets may drive sharp rise in subglacial waters

Two men examine and operate a large industrial machine in a lab filled with equipment and monitors.

July 25, 2023

Electrical engineering researchers work to find the energy balance