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Mines students, staff and alumni celebrated Homecoming by painting pumpkins, roasting marshmallows, running along Clear Creek and packing into the Marv Kay Stadium stands.

Connor Denney, a PhD candidate in electrical engineering, and Logan Pauli, master's graduate in quantum engineering, created a quantum amplifier company, Bifrost, that has secured $4 million dollars in seed funding.

Brennan Sprinkle, assistant professor of applied mathematics and statistics, recently induced microspheres called Dynabeads to assemble into a quasicrystal.

Lief Ritter, senior majoring in chemical engineering, says he was proud to display his award-winning pumpkin in front of Mines' Guggenheim Hall.

Arthur Lakes Library is named the 2025 Federal Depository Library Of The Year by the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Ian Lange, professor of economics and business, notes that China is hard to compete with in the copper arena due to state support.

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, discusses demand for EV's and how that impacts the international lithium market.

Leif Ritter, senior in chemical engineering, explains how he grew a 1,579 pound pumpkin using strategies he learned through his studies at Mines.

Elizabeth Holley, associate professor of mining engineering, is quoted about her study published in Science that demonstrated much of the United States' critical minerals demand could be satisfied through reprocessing mine waste.

Ian Lange, professor of economics and business, discusses the challenges associated with mining coal that is on land with split, public and private, ownership.

Lesley Sebol, groundwater program manager for the Colorado Geological Survey, and Matt Sares, senior researcher for the Colorado Geological Survey, discuss the aquifers in Southern Colorado.

Lesley Sebol, groundwater program manager for the Colorado Geological Survey, and Matt Sares, senior researcher for the Colorado Geological Survey, are interviewed about the connection between ground water and surface water.