Spotlight - Mines Magazine

Lesli Wood: Geology and Geological Engineering Professor

by Kathleen Morton

Lesli Wood grew up running around the hills and creeks of central Arkansas. By the time she was a...

Five Interesting Facts about Mines Professor Kathleen Smits

by Kathleen Morton

Kathleen Smits is a civil and environmental engineering assistant professor at Mines. She became...

Encana Internship Leads to Full-Time Employment

by Karen Gilbert

Senior petroleum engineering major Tyler Barela, of Trinidad, Colorado, spent 12 weeks during the...

Georgianna Zelenak: Junior, Geophysical Engineering, Harvey Scholar

by Marsha Williams

Her goal is a career in oceanography, so Georgianna (Georgie) Zelenak thought she could use some study time in a setting other than the foothills of Colorado. That’s how she ended up in 2010 on Hawaii’s Big Island,...

Annette L. Bunge: Professor Emerita, Chemical and Biological Engineering

by Kristen Daly

Twenty-five years ago, a colleague mentioned to Annette Bunge that dermatologists at the University of Utah were finding strange results in their study of chemicals moving through skin. Boldly crossing the discipline barrier,...

Rod Eggert – Professor and Division Director, Division of Economics and Business

by Sandy Graham

In 2010, when industry and governments around the world woke up to the fact that China had...

Leah Feazel & Andrew Nelson

by Emmett Wald

Graduate environmental science and engineering students Leah Feazel and Andrew Nelson spent a challenging summer in Cameroon last year, volunteering their time to help support educational initiatives. The two launched their own non-profit organization, DOORs Cameroon, which works to sponsor motivated teenagers from Cameroon’s rural communities to attend college.