While a traditional college learning setting sees a professor lecturing as students take notes, it is often a “light-bulb moment” of student self-discovery that leaves the largest learning impact. Experiential learning at Mines currently includes guided physics adventures in electricity to active-learning labs in general chemistry; however, a new Mines faculty member will be using…
Invictus: Latin; meaning unconquerable, undefeated. The Invictus Initiative held an informational meeting Monday, April 6th in Marquez Hall to discuss their newest announced trip to Nicaragua this summer. Their third visit there, this trip, as told by Co-founder Mike Kmita, will focus around humanitarian aid that focuses “… less about helping, more about learning and…
Broomfield, CO–The popularity of sharing pictures of food, places, and people seemed to have been given a positive trend when Instagram arrived at the app store. But Ahnika Luptin, an independent researcher from Arvada, CO, who studies the dwellings of app features, has unveiled an unprecedented truth about the photo giant. “The filters Instagram raises…
Day Negative One: Diary of Juno Eaves For my twentieth birthday, my parents gave me this diary. It feels strange to receive such a juvenile gift, especially on the brink of my adulthood. But tonight I sit in my chair in the dining room and write this in front of my parents. I’ve decided this…
Along Washington Street in downtown Golden, there is a nondescript red door with a sign hanging above it that looks like a face. Within that door is are stairs that lead to a long, winding hallway leading eventually to yet another door with a sign on it like the sign above the red door. Inside…
Chapter 4: Shards of a Myth The area was sacred. Everyone, clan member or not, could sense the power that protected the relics. It was strange. Anyone with ill intentions were repelled at the entrance, forbidding them entrance. Of those that were able to enter, only a handful could touch the weapons; the others were…
Colorado, USA- Scientists at Colorado State University have invented a device that allows deaf individuals to hear again, not with their ears, but with their tongues. Although the system that attaches on the tongue does not restore hearing, it converts sound into wave vibrations that can be felt by the tongue. The user would then…
Attorney General Eric Holder is now barring local and state police departments from seizing assets without warrants or criminal charges. This comes through a new limiting of Equitable Sharing, a federal program that allowed for relatively easy seizures and allowed for the police department making the seizure to keep 80% of the property. The decision…
Waking up at seven in the morning with the intention of walking eight miles down Colfax Avenue to the capitol building does not sound like the most appealing of plans; but throw hundreds of Mines students, an ore cart and free burritos into the mix and that eight mile march becomes a can’t miss Mines tradition.
The Iota Zeta Chapter of Alpha Phi at the Colorado School of Mines hosted Alpha-Traz, the annual Alpha Phi International Philanthropy event which raises money for the Alpha Phi Foundation, champion of women’s heart health. The event was moved from its original location on Kafadar Commons to the Alpha Phi House due to the rainy weather forecast. Nevertheless, the event was an astronomical success. Over seven thousand dollars were raised which exceeded the goal of five thousand dollars.