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Morgan Rabinowitz, an electrical engineering major and Hillel co-president at Mines, said building the sukkah felt different from the projects that usually bring engineering students together.

Tzahi Cath, professor of civil and environmental engineering, led a research group that deployed a water treatment system inside a 20-foot shipping container in the heart of the Permian Basin. It was designed to produce water clean enough for crop irrigation.

Tom Williams, associate professor of computer science and director of the Mines Interactive Robotics Research Lab, has a new Robot Riot comedy show at RISE Comedy that considers what happens when robots die.

Colorado School of Mines' Edgar Experimental Mine, one of the most unique university research spaces in the country, gives mining students the opportunity to learn in an actual mine.

Nathan Lenssen, teaching assistant professor in applied mathematics and statistics, explained that due to the warming of the planet, there is more energy in the oceans now. He said El Niños are when the ocean releases some of that heat into the atmosphere.

Colorado School of Mines once again was the top-ranked university in Colorado on the U.S. News 2027 list of best colleges.

Adrienne Marshall, assistant professor of earth, space and planets, discusses the findings of her study connecting the drought in the western United States this year to man-made climate change.

George Sturgis, professor of practice in mining engineering, said stress is not something that you’re going to excavate and remove.

Ian Lange, Viola Vestal Coulter Chair of Mineral Economics, says historically copper demand has been a good measure of how the economy is doing since so many things are in part made of copper.

Matthew Siegfried, associate professor of earth, space and planets, noted that Colorado’s glaciers are not just formed by snowfall but also rely on wind and avalanches to fill shaded basins with additional snow.

Matthew Siegfried, associate professor of earth, space and planets, said when you have very little input and a lot of melt, it is great recipe to make a glacier disappear.

Colorado School of Mines introduces guaranteed admission for qualifying Colorado high school graduates.