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Intersection at 9th Street and Highway 6 Planning Meeting

Anyone who has crossed the intersection at 9th Street and Highway 6 will know what a hazard it is. Very few people know how to properly use the intersection and there are regularly accidents there. As a response to this, the City of Golden has decided to make some changes. This led to a meeting on Monday, April 14, 2014. People from all over Golden, but particularly from near 19th Street, gathered at the Fossil Trace Clubhouse to talk about the intersection.

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From Mines to NASA

Interested in aerospace? Ever wanted to know what living on the International Space Station is like? Penny Pettigrew, ISS Payload Communications Manager at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and Mines graduate, will return to Mines this Friday, April 25 to talk to students about her career at NASA as well as her journey to NASA.

AMS Colloquium: Stability of detonation waves

In the study of the stability of detonation waves, it is often common practice to ignore the effects of diffusion and still construct an accurate enough representation of the waves in question. But what happens when these diffusive effects are not neglected, and how do they affect these waves? As part of a collaborative study, Dr. Gregory Lyng of the University of Wyoming Department of Mathematics sought answers to these questions and shared some of his findings at this week’s AMS Colloquium.

2014-15 USG election results

Results from the 2014-15 USG elections as voted by you!

SEG Lecture: “Subsea Mining: The Nautilus Experience”

Seventy-one percent of the Earth’s crust is covered by ocean. According to NOAA, “more than 95 percent of the underwater world remains unexplored.” In other words, seventy percent of the planet could hold vast, untapped mineral resources. As technology improves, humankind’s ability to access these resources increases as well. Soon, the majority of mining may be done, not on land as today, but far below the sea.

The Art of Translating: Howard Goldblatt

Authors usually receive all of the credit for their works, especially when their works go on to win prizes as prestigious as the Nobel Prize in Literature. However, 2012 winner Chinese novelist Mo Yan offers credit to his translator Howard Goldblatt, who has translated many of Mo Yan’s works into English. Goldblatt visited Colorado School of Mines on April 7 to speak about his background as well as his experience translating for Chinese authors.

AMS Colloquium: The rights and wrongs of mixing

To most, the action of manually mixing two immiscible fluids or materials is an afterthought. For the vast majority, it is simply a mundane task that occasionally needs doing, and often very little thought goes into whether there is a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ way to accomplish it. But to Professor Gautam Iyer of the Carnegie Mellon University Department of Mathematical Sciences and a growing number of mathematicians and material scientists, there is a steadily increasing consensus that there are, in fact, correct and incorrect ways to go about mixing materials when efficiency is the goal. In this week’s installment of the AMS Department’s colloquium series, Prof. Iyer provided a brief look into some of his research on optimizing material mixing and fluid stirring techniques via mathematics.

Hennebach Lecture – Ryan Davison

On March 5th, Dr Ryan Davison of the American Chemical Society (ACS) came to speak about how science-related political policy is made. Davison is the Advocacy Manager in the ACS’s Office of Public Affairs, which means it is his job to educate legislators about the issues pertinent to science and engineering. The ACS is the largest scientific society in the world, so it often serves as the voice of the scientist on Capitol Hill.

50th Anniversary of Largest Earthquake in US History

Anchorage, Alaska, 1964. At 5:30 PM on March 27th, Good Friday, the ground began to shake. Eyewitness Patrick Sanford’s father stopped his car to see what was wrong with his steering. Airman Patrick Hames thought the rumbling he heard was the thump of footsteps at shift change, while James Midlothian assumed it was a pilot revving his airplane engines; another airman suggested it was a bomb. Easter lilies began to fall off the shelves on top of Merry-Rae Brook and her fellow Girl Scouts, who were selling cookies in a grocery store. The cups in Patrick Keulan’s cupboards began to shake against each other, and a moment later the china hutch fell over.

Tent City at Mines

Officials in the department of Student Life have proposed a new way to house students at Mines: tents. According to initial estimates, 100 two person tents could be placed on Kafadar Commons. This would help ease the housing problems for incoming freshmen while providing students who want to “become one with nature” a way to do so. This will be the least expensive housing option on Mines campus with a cost of $2000 per semester. Students living in the tents will be required to obtain an unlimited meal plan as food in the tents is likely to attract wildlife.