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Colorado School of Mines is expected to receive $32.7 million to establish a critical minerals technology development hub.

Mines is one of 14 mining-focused universities nationally that expects to receive a portion of the $100 million targeted for mining education.

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, said energy infrastructure has become a much more common target, particularly as conflicts drag on in regions temptingly full of power plants and pipelines.

Stephen Enders, professor emeritus of practice in mining engineering, said "the cool kids study mining now." He noted that students majoring in mining engineering has more than doubled at Mines.

Mines is one of the mining schools nationally that received funding to boost mining education.

A new hub at Mines will test and scale new technologies for mineral processing, recovery, refining, recycling and advanced materials— and ultimately move those technologies into the domestic supply chain.

Xinxin Sui, a post-doctoral researcher at Mines, and her colleagues painstakingly separated and classified individual storms from 23 years’ worth of high-resolution radar data.

Maxwell Brown, assistant professor of economics and business, discusses the controversy around the construction of new data centers.

This University of Colorado newsletter piece features a Q & A with Adrienne Marshall, a computational hydrologist and assistant professor in geology/geological engineering, about her new drought study.

This article discusses the Colorado School of Mines' additive manufacturing-focused partnership with the University of Guam.

Mikhail Zhizhin, a researcher at the Earth Observation Group at Mines, estimated that 300 million cubic meters of gas were flared at the well between March and July 2026, about equal to half the natural gas consumed by Mexican households in 2023.

Jenifer Shafer, the Ben L. Fryrear Presidential Chair and professor in the Chemistry Department and Nuclear Science & Engineering Program, predicts that Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) will become an important part of the nation's energy infrastructure.