Robert Rush Late this summer, the Covid-19 Delta Variant, which ravaged India earlier this year, brought a whole new surge of the coronavirus, or in layman’s terms the “coof.” Due to this variant, the School of Mines is currently having some mask policies to curb the potential spread of this variant, and the state of…
by Lauren D’Ambra Everyone loves a good football game, and the Colorado School of Mines Marching Band is no exception. After being sidelined with the rest of the Mine’s athletic teams last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mines band is ready to get back into the swing of things and attended the very…
by Zachary Barry With the move to all in-person learning for the fall 2021 semester and the loosening of some COVID19 induced restrictions, clubs and other extracurricular activities are once again offering Colorado School of Mines students a break from the daily grind. Friday the 27th of August saw the return of “Celebration of Mines,”…
by Aidan Lewis “Let’s cut some cable!” On Wednesday August 25 at a new parking lot near the mouth of Clear Creek Canyon, Jefferson County officials, outdoor enthusiasts, and builders gathered for a “cable cutting ceremony” to celebrate the opening of a new segment of the Peaks to Plains trail. The day was hot with…
by Lauren D’Ambra Step aside R2-D2, Ultron, and WALL-E, there’s a new form of AI in town! On August 10, 2021 Colorado School of Mines, in partnership with EasyMile and the City of Golden, launched a fleet of driverless rovers across campus and the Golden area. The rovers are 100% electric, autonomous vehicles and currently…
Image courtesy of Colorado School of Mines Flickr by Lauren D’Ambra The annual Mines M-Climb is one of Mine’s most treasured and prevalent traditions. The first ever M-Climb took place in 1951 and almost every student to attend Colorado School of Mines since has participated in the event. It’s easily one of the most highly…
Starting in the fall of 2021, Mines will have yet another new program to offer students. A Bachelor of Science in Quantitative Biosciences and Engineering will be a new degree in an attempt to combine engineering with biology. The current QBE graduate degree has only been offered here at Mines since 2018, and now there…
Originally published on March 2nd, 2021. I watched in awe as a winter storm hit the South on February 13th. I’m from a town just north of Seattle, where we rarely get even a dusting of snow that sticks around, and I’ve always thought of hot-weather states like Texas as immune to harsh winter weather….
Originally published on March 2nd, 2021. Given you survived Wednesday evening’s snow blitz, welcome to the third issue of Updates in the CS World (really though, 9 inches of snow overnight?). As promised, this issue we’ll touch on spaCy, a natural language processing library for Python, given its major v3.0 release. Edu-macating your ComputerFor the…
Originally published on March 2nd, 2021. Mines, of course, has its reputation of being hard or, preferably by the admission’s team, “rigorous.” STEM degrees are expectedly challenging, but Mines comes with a hidden poison. We could debate the difficulty of courses compared to other schools, but one objective facet of Mines is unavoidable: unlike nearly…