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Thomas Albrecht, professor of chemistry and Grandey University Chair in Nuclear Science and Engineering, discusses with Denver7 Denver International Airport's plan to study the feasibility of powering the facility with a small modular nuclear reactor.

Sam Seeton, a Mines alum and CEO of Infinite Outdoors, is interviewed about his app that allows outdoor enthusiasts to connect with private property owners so they can access public lands that border private property.

Anna Littlefield, program manager for low carbon energy technologies with the Payne Institute for Public Policy, says that valuing enhanced oil recovery equally with carbon storage could divert more investment into those companies doing enhanced oil recovery and less from the companies doing pure storage.

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Center for Public Policy, co-authors this article about how the rise of economic nationalism and the return of territorial conquest as a normalized tool of statecraft is impacting the international critical minerals market.

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Center for Public Policy, co-authors this opinion piece about the Russian-Ukraine war and the conflict in Gaza.

Mary Elliott, executive director of residence life and auxiliary services, talked to the Golden Transcript about the opening day for students to move into the new Village at Mines Park. The community for upperclassman and graduate students includes five large new apartment buildings as well as 19 newly-renovated smaller apartment buildings.

Brandon Dugan, professor of geophysics, discusses the drilling expedition he's leading this summer off the coast of New England to study the freshwater system that lies deep beneath the ocean floor.

Colorado School of Mines was the only Colorado university to receive 4.5 stars or make any of Money magazine's "best of" lists. In Money's latest ranking, Mines was recognized as one of the best colleges in the west as well as one of the best public colleges in the U.S.

Enrique Chon, a geologist with the Colorado Geological Survey located at Colorado School of Mines, explains why it's so difficult to predict the size of a tsunami. The wave generated by the recent Russian earthquake wasn't nearly as big as feared.

Elizabeth Reddy, assistant professor in the Department of Engineering, Design and Society, is quoted expressing her disappointment that Google's earthquake early warning system failed to accurately alert people during Turkey's deadly quake of 2023.

Rod Eggert, research professor of Economics and Business, says that the likelihood of any of the new U.S. rare earth projects reaching the production stage is low because of the challenges inherent in the arena.

Colorado high school teachers demonstrate their newly-learned robotics skills after completing a 6 week course at Mines on robotics and AI.