Letting Kids Create on Disney Online
Tom Fischaber ’98 can recall the precise day his new Internet venture achieved critical mass. It...
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A Dream Career in Sports and Law
”Sometimes you have to create your own economy,” a friend once said to Alicia Jessop ’06, who’d just learned that a job she’d pinned her hopes on had gone to another finalist. It was advice she took to heart. This City of Aurora...
Read MoreReengineering the Nation’s Only Major Source of Rare Earth Metals
Brock O’ Kelley ’74 has seen the good times and weathered the bad ones at Molycorp’s Mountain Pass Mine, located 50 miles south of Las Vegas. He was there 22 years ago, when the mine ranked as the world’s largest single...
Read MoreImparting His Passion for Bikes, and a Whole Lot More
“When a kid has a bicycle, it’s liberating, it’s freeing,” says Dick Banks ’53, who has devoted a lot of time over the last 15 years to giving kids bicycles. In 1996, working through First United Methodist Church in Tulsa,...
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The Rough and Tough of Diamond Mining
Geophysical engineering alumnus Eric Friedland ’86 has had an unconventional and challenging career path, most recently founding Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. His company is working to uncover what could be the most important diamond discovery in decades.
Read MoreProspering 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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NASA Flight Controller Prepares for the Worst
At space camp in high school, James Johnson ’03 was disappointed that he wasn’t...
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Spoiled Dogs, Pinot Noir and Black Angus
Jack and Karen Krug have escaped to a world of their own. Tucked away in the woods of Whidbey...
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Everything Boys Can Do
Four sisters. One apartment. And one fiercely competitive, male-dominated engineering school. It...
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Industry Veteran Puts Recent Grad Through “Boot Camp”
Stewart Chuber ’52 worked in the oil and gas field for 10 years before he found a mentor....
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Alumnus Helps Build Nuclear Engineering Program
“Worldwide energy demand is expected to double in the next 20 years,” says Frank Gibbs...
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Alumnus Virtually Illuminates the Magical Kingdom
At the intersection of art and technology, where mathematical computer modeling meets lighting...
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Bolts from the Blue: A Journey from Engineer to Playwright
The moment of inspiration came one drab day on the 26th floor of a Holiday Inn in Wichita, KS. An...
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