Author: Anne Button

Retiring to a Second Career

You’re 60 years old. You’ve had a successful engineering career, spanning four decades and several continents, and you are retiring as president and chief operating officer of a mining company with a thousand...

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Prospering by Degrees

Durga Prasad Kar MS ’02, PhD ’10 earned his graduate degrees in economics at Mines. In 2003, he and his wife founded Alternative Development Initiative for Rural Engagement (ADIRE), a nonprofit working to improve the lives of the rural poor in India through appropriate technology, renewable energy and local capacity building.

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Current Issue: Spring 2025

Cover of Mines Magazine Spring 2025 featuring a student playing a keyboard instrument with colorful text overlay reading “IMPROV, INSTRUMENTS & IMAGINATION.” The issue highlights how Mines blends technical rigor with creative learning.

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