2013 Spring - Mines Magazine

How Nike’s Founder Helped Influence Cancer Researcher Joe Gray ’68

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Tips on Developing Your International Career

Is working internationally the right career move for you? Magi Boogaard ’00 shared with attendees of a February 7, 2013, seminar the approach she found successful in working outside the United States.

Airstrips for the Allied Advance

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Earning Energy Independence

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Braking I-70’s Slow Slide

by Larry Borowsky

A slow, persistent landslide is undermining a short section of I-70, about a mile from the highest...

New Gravity Map Reveals a Battered Moon

by David Tauchen

The new map, created by the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, where Mines Professor Jeff Andrews-Hanna is a guest scientist, is allowing scientists to learn about the moon’s internal structure and...

Quantum Dots

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Unfortunate Omission

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I enjoyed Exploring Human Landscapes [fall 2012], but in the photo on p. 25 you show and mention Bill Clinton and Saunders. You fail to mention the great Nelson Mandela. I worked on the extremely deep gold mines of South Africa...

Pride and Remonstration

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After reading the story about the bell [fall 2012 issue] and seeing my uncle in Editor’s Take, we found a couple more photos from the past. My dad and his two brothers were involved in the bell heist and engraving. We were...

Skier Safety Engineers

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In the obituary for Donald Larson in the fall 2012 edition, it was such a pleasure to see that he had won the Robert Lesage award from the Rocky Mountain Lift Association in 2008. I know a little bit about Robert Lesage because he was my father, and also a Mines graduate with an EM degree in 1948.