Fall Career Day goes virtual, with even more opportunities to interact with recruiters—Mark your calendar for the Fall 2020 Career Fair, to be held virtually over THREE days on Tuesday, September 15; Wednesday, September 16; and Wednesday, October 14. Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day, with an additional hour from 9 a.m. […]
R. Dwayne Betts will present an excerpt of the solo show that he is developing based on "Felon." The work engages with the contemporary moment, mass incarceration, and the challenges of having a complicated conversation about crime, punishment, and sorrow in contemporary America. This presentation essentially takes place in three parts. First, there is the […]
TALKING ROBOTICS Number 1 - Join faculty and students from Mines' new Robotics Program as Professor Kevin Moore talks about robotics for hazardous materials response. Mines new Robotics Program will […]
Please join the Countdown TEDx Calgary Webinar Series as they welcome Payne Institute Senior Research Associate Dr. Sara Hastings-Simon on a TEDx Calgary presentation titled Countdown to Climate Change on Wednesday, October 14, 2020 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm (MT). TOPIC: COUNTDOWN TO CLIMATE CHANGE SPEAKER: DR. SARA HASTINGS-SIMON, PAYNE INSTITUTE SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE HOSTED BY: COUNTDOWN TEDX CALGARY WEBINAR SERIES TIME: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER […]
Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Payne Fellow Dr. Griff Thompson, Director, Office of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, U.S. State […]
Keith Johnston of the University of Texas at Austin will give a talk on "Soft Matter Stabilization at Challenging Conditions for Drug Delivery and Energy Applications"
Welcome! Mindful Mondays will continue for Fall 2020 as a drop-in guided mindfulness meditation for all Mines students, faculty, and staff. No experience necessary, all are welcome, come as you are! Our Kick-Off Meeting will be held via ZOOM, join us virtually here as we take care of ourselves as Orediggers. Held every Monday from […]
Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy as we welcome Prince Musab Al-Saud, Director – Office of Political and Congressional Affairs, The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, […]
Please join Engineers Ireland and Morgan D. Bazilian present at the virtual National Conference titled Engineering Climate Action: Solutions to Combat Climate Change in Ireland on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 from 2:00am […]
Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 from 9:00am – 10:00am. MT as we welcome Jamie Webster, Senior Director, BCG Center for Energy Impact, for a […]
The Payne Institute for Public Policy and the Humanitarian Engineering Program at Colorado School of Mines are pleased to host a webinar featuring members of the NSF Partnerships for International Research and Education Program (PIRE) Responsible Mining, Responsible Communities project discussing Nurturing Global Engineering Education During The COVID-19 Pandemic on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 from […]
Mines DI&A committed to extending additional opportunities for all of campus to practice what was learned in either the exploring implicit (unconscious) bias and/or minimizing microaggressions workshops this fall. You are invited to continue the conversation and further develop your skills via the Unconscious bias & microaggressions bystander learning community. The community meets every other Thursday from 10:30-11:00 […]
Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Fellow Arvind P. Ravikumar, Assistant Professor of Energy Engineering, Harrisburg University, presenting a webinar […]
The Graduate Student Skills Seminar is Scheduled in a Virtual Format Topic: Time Management: Insights from Current and Past Graduate Students (Establishing Successful Routines) Virtual Meeting Information: Cheryl Ann Medford […]
Peter Cummings from Vanderbilt University will give a talk on "The Molecular Simulation Design Framework (MoSDeF): Capabilities and Applications."
Please join Payne Institute Senior Research Associate Sara Hastings-Simon, David Keith, and Ed Whittingham, with special guest Mark Tercek, former president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy and co-author of “Nature’s Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature.”on the Energy vs. Climate series for a webinar titled Are “Nature-based Solutions” a natural policy choice? on Friday, […]
Join campus for the latest fall learning and skills development opportunity with an on-demand screening of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival Official Selection, "Picture a Scientist." Picture a Scientist started […]
Welcome! Mindful Mondays will continue for Fall 2020 as a drop-in guided mindfulness meditation for all Mines students, faculty, and staff. No experience necessary, all are welcome, come as you are! Our Kick-Off Meeting will be held via ZOOM, join us virtually here as we take care of ourselves as Orediggers. Held every Monday from […]
Trevor Rhone Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Abstract: When the dimensionality of an electron system is reduced from three dimensions to two dimensions, new behavior emerges. This has been demonstrated in gallium arsenide quantum Hall systems since the 1980’s, and more recently in van der Waals (vdW) materials, such as graphene. This talk will discuss the behavior […]
Camille Dungy will feature poetry and environmental writing in her discussion and reading that will focus on nature, race, and writing. Her anthology of black writers, Black Nature, was published last year and is a historical look at black writers and writing about the environment. Zoom Link: BLACK NATURE: An evening with Camille T. Dungy
Join the Hennebach Program in the Humanities for a night with award-winning author and poet and professor Camille T. Dungy; her reading and book discussion will feature poetry and environmental writing devoted to questions of nature, race, and writing as a black academic in our current culture. Her anthology of black writers, Black Nature, was […]
Join campus for a live panel discussion with Dr. Burks, Dr. Willenbring, and Picture a Scientist film directors. Dr. Raychelle Burks is a professor of analytical chemistry at American University in Washington, D.C. Her research focuses on developing low-cost colorimetric sensors for detecting chemicals of forensic interest, including explosives and regulated drugs. As a science communicator, Burks […]
Please join the GEN IV International Forum as they welcome Payne Institute Faculty Fellow Dr. Amy Schweikert, a Research Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, presenting at webinar titled The Global Potential for Small and Micro Reactor Systems to Provide Electricity Access on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 from 6:30am – 7:30am […]
Solvent-Mediated Driving Forces in (Bio)Molecular Systems: Understanding direct intermolecular interactions in atomistic simulations on a qualitative or even semi-quantitative level is relatively straightforward with simplified empirical models that include just […]
Payne Institute welcomes Dr. Daniel Nussbaum, Chair, Energy Academic Group, Naval Postgraduate School, will present a webinar titled Energy Security in the Era of Hybrid Warfare on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 from 11:00am-12:00pm. TOPIC: ENERGY SECURITY IN THE ERA OF HYBRID WARFARE HOSTED BY: PAYNE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY TIME: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2020 – 11:00AM – 12:00PM MT […]
Please join the Mines Natural Resources & Energy Policy Master’s Program (NREP), Mines Sustainability Group, and Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome […]
Born to a Filipino mother and Malayali-Indian father, Aimee Nezhukumatathil (neh-ZOO / koo-mah / tah-TILL) is the author of four books of poetry: Oceanic; Lucky Fish, winner of the Hoffer Grand Prize for Prose and Independent Books; At the Drive-In Volcano; and Miracle Fruit. With Ross Gay, she co-authored Lace & Pyrite, a chapbook of […]
Aimee Nezhukumatathil's most recent book “World of Wonders” is an exploration of race, motherhood, gender, and the natural world. Professor Nezhukumatathil's reading and discussion will feature poems and essays devoted […]
Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Fellow Michael Cohen, Chief U.S. Economist and Head of Oil Analysis at bp, presenting […]
The classroom equity and inclusion learning community is a space for instructors to engage in dialogue and learn about equity in the classroom, share experiences, learn from one another and learn from experts. The learning community is open to the Mines community, however, content and topics are designed with academic faculty and graduate teaching assistants […]
Julie Rowland, University of Aukland Title: Aotearoa New Zealand’s Metal-transfer Superhighway and the Golden Trigger Abstract: Like many Pacific rim countries, Aotearoa New Zealand's mineral endowment is intimately linked to […]
Zoom Link: Panel Discussion with Camille T. Dungy and Aimee Nezhukumatathil: Join Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Camille T. Dungy for a performance and panel oriented on their recent readings and lectures. These two internationally renowned poets and powerhouse environmental writers will join forces for a panel discussion focused on nature writing, the environment, and race. Aimee Nezhukumatathil […]
Internationally recognized award-winning poets and writers Camille T Dungy and Aimee Nezhukumatathil will discuss race, writing, and nature in a panel for the ages! Topic: Hennebach Program in the Humanities […]
Jason Shoemaker from the University of Pittsburgh will give a talk entitled "Computational modeling to guide drug target discovery and treatment design in flu and COVID-19."
Welcome! Mindful Mondays will continue for Fall 2020 as a drop-in guided mindfulness meditation for all Mines students, faculty, and staff. No experience necessary, all are welcome, come as you are! Our Kick-Off Meeting will be held via ZOOM, join us virtually here as we take care of ourselves as Orediggers. Held every Monday from […]
Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Dr. Leena Srivastava, Deputy Director General for Science of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, presenting at webinar titled Transformations Within Reach: Partnerships for the Future on Tuesday, November 3, 2020 from 9:00am – 10:00am […]
Susan Coppersmith University of New South Wales Abstract: Silicon is an attractive materials platform for developing large-scale quantum computers because of its compatibility with classical silicon electronics and its potential […]
Empathy and Forgiveness: Seeing the heart of the enemy as a Servant Leader with Marleen Ramsey Zoom link: https://mines.zoom.us/j/96941462001
Empathy and forgiveness: Seeing the heart of the enemy as a Servant Leader, with Marleen Ramsey. Details: Our world, our country, is facing a time of incredible uncertainty and strife, with confrontations and violent clashes happening everywhere we turn. It is a time of intense political division, cultural change, and protests for justice. There is […]