Summer 2016 - Mines Magazine

We Are Mines: As Graduate Needs Evolve, Mines’ Alumni Association is Reinventing Itself

by Lisa Marshall

As Ray Priestley ’79 left the Green Center auditorium on graduation day back in 1979, he clutched...

H2O 2.0: With Water Shortages Looming for Colorado, Mines Researchers Think Outside the Box for Solutions

by Lisa Marshall

Try to picture Colorado’s water situation 30 years from now, and you’ll likely conjure images of...

A New Era for the Mines Alumni Association

by Mines Magazine

You worked hard for your degrees, and we want to reward your efforts by welcoming you into the alumni association: an inclusive, no-dues network for all Mines alumni.

SWE Can Do It: How the Society of Women Engineers Helped Change the Face of Engineering

by Emily Gonzales

“The primary obstacle that women face in engineering is the perception of what an engineer is and...

An Oredigger Finds Community Far From Campus

by Naomi Seldin

Like many transplants to the Washington, D.C., area, Katie Huckfeldt ’13 struggled at first to...

Orediggers Enjoy Historic Winter Season

by Tim Flynn

Colorado School of Mines athletics enjoyed a phenomenally successful 2015-16. During the winter...

Mines Digs Dublin

by Janet Preloger

It’s the stuff bucket lists are made of. Travel to Dublin—check. Travel to Dublin for St....

A Passion for Stormwater Research

by Ashley Spurgeon

Chelsea Panos began her journey at Mines as an undergraduate student in the physics department before discovering her true passion: environmental engineering, and more specifically—hydrology.

Mines Hearts Water Polo

by Mines Magazine

The Mines Water Polo Club strikes a heart-shaped pose in the pool at the Student Recreation Center...

Mines Team Designs, Builds, and Flies at AIAA Competition

by Deirdre O. Keating

Each August, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) releases the new...

Mines Celebrates ROTC 100th Anniversary

by Kathleen Morton

The year 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Army ROTC programs in the...

Oil and Water: An Oilman’s Quest to Save the Source of America’s Most Endangered River Bud Isaacs ’64 joined forces with environmental author Stephen Grace to tell the story of the Colorado River headwaters, a resource under...