The Mines Solar Decathlon team has made a resounding milestone for sustainability; the team has won its first ever Solar Decathlon competition. The 2019 Solar Decathlon competition was held in Marrakech, Morocco this year. Construction and judging took place over a five-week period from mid-August to September. But you might be asking, what exactly is…
The highly anticipated High Grade release party, which took place on the evening of Friday Apr. 19, debuted the forty-third edition of the High Grade Journal of the Arts. The event was held at the Foothills Art Center Garden, and drew 140 students, staff, faculty, alumni, family, and friends to celebrate the journal. …
The weekend of Apr. 4 saw various schools around the Rocky Mountain region of the United States take place in the annual ASCE Rocky Mountain Regional Conference, hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder. Mines participated in the three-day event with other schools from Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico. Events included technical…
Change on campus is constant. Departments shift their faculty, funds and fees change with campus initiatives, each new class of students has different expectations of Mines than the ones before. Understanding those changes takes a great deal of work and commitment, but getting involved in making those changes is easy to do: get involved with…
Arthur Lakes Library is on CSM’s renovation list, with a $10 million dollar budget in the works. The catch: Colorado School of Mines is not fronting any of that money. During the faculty meeting, library senator Paula Farca delivered news to the Apr. 10 meeting that a budget of $10 million dollars is estimated for…
Mines is expanding. This year alone, 200 more freshmen were admitted than the residence halls can handle, forcing triple rooms on every floor. Acceptance and enrollment rates will only continue to grow, but the school’s current capabilities and options likely won’t keep up. It will fall behind unless the school expands with its growing student…
The First Week in Edinburgh- Sept. 21 Guys, get this: I only have one class a day…Okay, that’s a bit of an exaggeration. Since classes started Sept. 18, I have had just about two classes a day at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, half of them two-hour lectures and labs. I finish classes in…
A film begins like this: a young man exits an elevator in a large, empty building. He makes his way downstairs to a hallway; though, to cross, he must crawl under lasers. The task is difficult, but he emerges unscathed and finds a mysterious case sitting on a table. He cracks the case’s code, unlocks…
PreHistorE-Days gave Mines students one last place to party on Saturday evening at the annual concert. This year, the headliner was none other than the Professional Rapper himself, Lil Dicky (a.k.a. The Independent Variable). Huey Mack, a rapper known for “Favorite Song” and “Take it All Back,” opened the concert. His set list included his…
Many Mines’ students have taken the trek from campus to the ski resorts in Summit County. The trip requires risking life and limb and the possibility of manual transmissions failing, but once the entrance to the Eisenhower Tunnel comes into view, it is smooth sailing from there. The tunnel stretches for almost two miles at…