Cover to cover! The feature articles on mining exploration and using Russian H-bomb fuel were interesting and informative. And the ‘Inside Mines’ coverage keeps me up-to-date on a school that’s reaching new heights in...
Read MoreKaren and I want to let you know how impressed we are with the interesting and well-written article in the summer issue of Mines magazine. ‘Hitting Paydirt‘ was a fun-to-read, clearly written and intriguing description of...
Read MoreI was captivated by your story on the role played by Jerry Grandey ’68 in salvaging the 1993 agreement to dismantle Russian nuclear warheads. I remember following those events nervously, wondering what would happen to...
Read MoreI have to make a correction to the Wild Woman story (winter 2012). I never coached them because they were uncontrollable.
Read MoreMy curiosity about the 1948 theft of the 1,200-pound University of Colorado bell, and its mysterious reappearance two years later, was first aroused 10 years ago. I was chatting with members of the Class of ’52, who were...
Read MoreThe Petroleum Engineering Department’s new home officially opened September 28, 2012, seven years after an historic $10 million challenge grant from Timothy ’80 and Bernadette Marquez (pronounced...
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A record year in giving, highest-ever SAT scores for an incoming class, more research funding than in any previous year, on-campus recruiting reaching an all-time high, new athletic achievements, and an unprecedented pace of new construction: At the start of its 138th year, Mines can lay claim to a remarkable list of accomplishments.
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After NASA’s 2001 Opportunity rover found rocks containing salt that formed in a watery...
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On the Mines campus, Tissa Illangasekare is known as the friendly, upbeat civil and environmental engineering professor who transformed the old Volk Gymnasium swimming pool into a state-of-the-art soil and climate wind tunnel. But beyond campus, Illangasekare is known for transforming the field of hydrology.
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The week before fall semester began, freshman Katrina Ward joined a four-day backpacking trip along the Colorado Trail with seven classmates, her future resident assistant and two guides from the Mines Outdoor Recreation Center.
Read MorePresident Obama spoke to a crowd in Lions Park on September 13, just minutes from the Mines campus. The event took place a few hours before a Romney campaign event a half-mile away in downtown Golden headlined by Mitt...
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Fulfilling one of the requirements of the McBride Honors Program in Public Affairs led these two students into unfamiliar territory this summer.
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Kayla Johnson and her team placed fourth overall at the 2012 International Rope Skipping...
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Over the last 25 years, a series of incremental improvements to photovoltaic cells have raised...
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After 64 years, two alumni tell the story behind the unsolved theft, and reappearance, of a 1,200-pound bell belonging to University of Colorado Boulder.
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