Colorado School of Mines Civil and Environment Professor Tzahi Cath has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the Geothermal Technologies Office of the U.S. Department of Energy to study membrane distillation desalination of impaired water using low-grade heat from geothermal power plants. Read more.

Mounir Zok, senior sports technologist for the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), collaborates with Mines to develop an app to track gymnasts’ performance data. Find out more here.

Read about the study the Colorado Geological Survey published on the West Salt Creek landslide here.