At Midyear Degree Convocation on December 16, Colorado School of Mines conferred 174 bachelor’s, 162 master’s and 31 doctoral degrees during ceremonies held in the Lockridge Arena. Central to the program was guest speaker Richard O’Brien, president and CEO of Newmont Mining, who spoke on leadership and integrity.
Student clubs are all about building bridges. But in the case of the Mines chapter of Engineers Without Borders, students are literally building bridges.
Who’s new to campus? Two directors took the helm of their respective programs in 2011. Here’s a quick sketch.
A group of Mines students and faculty are collaborating with area teachers, college professors and school administrators on a project aimed at enhancing education in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields, particularly as they relate to sustainability and energy.
Bloomberg Businessweek described Colorado School of Mines as the “biggest bargain” in its recent list of colleges and universities that “pack a return on investment punch.”
On August 19, 291 members of the Class of 2015 moved mini-refrigerators, laptops and laundry baskets into a brand-new residence facility located north of 17th Street on the east side of Maple.
Located on the south side of the Mines campus, the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center is one of the most advanced seismology centers in the world and the first place where many major media outlets turn for information in the aftermath of a major earthquake anywhere in the world.
Love the smell of chain grease in the morning? A gorgeous day in Golden greeted racers for Stage 6 of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, which took riders up and down Lookout Mountain, through the center of Golden three times and into Denver for the finish. Many members of the Mines community were present to cheer on the cyclists.
Mines is the top-ranked university in Colorado in the 2012 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s listing of “America’s Best Colleges and Universities,” ranking 75th in the category of Best National Universities, both public and private, and 52nd in the publication’s listing for Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs at schools with doctoral programs.
One of the largest, highest-quality rhodochrosite specimens ever mined was displayed in the Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum this summer.
Mines hosted the nation’s first ever intercollegiate Mines Emergency Response Development Exercise (MERD) in February, which included the first all-female MERD team ever.
Terence Parker has been named executive vice president and provost. Parker, who came to Mines in 1994, has served as Engineering Division director since 2006. During that time, student enrollment in the graduate program in engineering and the annual research award level has more than doubled. Undergraduate student enrollment has also increased, with more than
With construction soon to begin on the new student health center to be situated on the northwest corner of Elm and 18th Street, the future facility was named the W. Lloyd Wright Student Wellness Center, after former Colorado School of Mines physician Dr. W. Lloyd Wright. Once completed in the spring of 2012, the $2.8
At an event held at the University of Colorado, Boulder in November, the first eight individuals inducted into the 13-school Golden Buffalo Battalion Army ROTC Program Hall of Fame included two Mines alumni and one professor. The ceremony included Hugh W. Evans ’49; Vernon “Bud” A. Isaacs ’64; and the late Colonel Wendell W. Fertig,
Mines hosted the fourth largest Spring Career Day on record in February. A total of 1,700 students and recent graduates attended the event in the Student Recreation Center, where 145 organizations staffed booths with about 400 recruiters, many of whom were in familiar territory. “Typically one-third are alumni,” said Jean Manning-Clark, director of career services,
Colorado School of Mines was ranked first among public institutions for 30-year net return on investment for graduates who paid in-state tuition, and second int he same category for graduates who paid out-of-state tuition.
Mines engineering students designed an award-winning sound-wall that has reduced traffic noise from Sixth Avenue as their Senior Design project. Their project began in 2008, and after construction was completed last spring, the project won the 2010 City of Lakewood Community Sustainability Award for its use of 3,330 recycled tires.
A rare moon rock, long thought to be missing, was recently put on display at the Mines Geology Museum. Its value estimated at more than $5 million, the specimen was one of 360 rocks to come back to Earth in 1974 aboard Apollo 17, the sixth and final lunar landing mission of the Apollo program. Gov. Bill Ritter spoke recently at the ceremonial unveiling of the new exhibit.
The Orediggers took home a newly minted award – the Nyikos Cup – after defeating RMAC rival Mesa State College 46-10 on October 16. The award was named in honor of longtime member of the Mines Board of Trustees, and it will go to the winner of the annual football game between Mines and Mesa State.
A painting by the noted 19th century artist Albert Bierstadt that has been hanging on campus for decades is now on display in the Denver Art Museum’s (DAM) Creating the West in Art exhibition, which runs through next spring. The undated painting, Yosemite, had gone uncataloged by scholars in the art world until Mines officials
At the beginning of its fourth year, Mines’ graduate Nuclear Engineering Program has a total of 25 students enrolled in the MS and PhD programs, and another 15 in the five-year BS/MS program. Stephen Pronovost ’08, MS ’10 is putting his masterís in nuclear engineering to work as a field service engineer for Westinghouse Nuclear.
On May 14, more than 700 degrees were conferred on members of the Class of 2010.
Mines’ “Trusty Trussers” steel bridge team won first place at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Rocky Mountain Regional Conference in April. Seniors Karlyn Adams, Luke Frash, Zachary Grabowski, Daniel Kane, Jackye Lagen and Bailey Smith’s 1:10 scale model bridge incorporated a unique wishbone truss design. At the national competition in May, the team
Students enrolled in Mines’ popular Special Studies in Leadership & Small Group Dynamics class were given an interesting task last semester: distribute nearly $4,000 in cash to deserving student groups on campus. This was no hypothetical exercise. The funds were donated by alumni who responded to a targeted solicitation from the CSM Foundation. “We reached