Tim Ohno Colorado School of Mines, Department of Physics Abstract: A year ago, the Mines Physics Department led a student team to compete in Morocco in the inaugural Solar Decathlon Africa. The engineering and science that lead to the victory in this project will be discussed, along with the tale of the international adventure that […]
Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Dr. Tim Boersma, Non-Resident Fellow at the Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy, Director, Sustainability & Strategy Advisory, ABN AMRO, presenting The Possible Role of Natural Gas in Various Energy Transition Pathways on Wednesday, September 30, 2020 from 10:00am […]
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 Advisory Board Member Dr. Atul Arya, Chief Energy Strategist at IHS Markit, presenting Transforming Oil/Gas Companies to Energy Companies: The New Narrative? on Tuesday, October 6, 2020 from 10:00am – 11:00am MT. TOPIC: TRANSFORMING OIL/GAS COMPANIES TO ENERGY COMPANIES: […]
Emily Gibson University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus Abstract: Understanding how the brain’s complex neural networks perform critical functions and govern behavior, cognition and intuition is a key goal of neuroscience and can lead to improved treatment for various neurological disorders. The development of new tools for studying the brain is critical in this effort. […]
Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Randolph Bell, Director, Global Energy Center; Richard Morningstar Chair for Global Energy Security Atlantic Council, presenting a webinar titled Scaling Up the Hydrogen Economy: Assessing Challenges and Opportunities for Hydrogen Production and Applications on Thursday, October 8, 2020 […]
–Please join the Colorado Energy Research Collaboratory as they host Payne Institute Director Morgan Bazilian for a webinar titled Infrastructure Part 1: Contention in the Energy Sector on Thursday, October 8, 2020 from 10:00am – 11:00am MT. TOPIC: INFRASTRUCTURE PART 1: CONTENTION IN THE ENERGY SECTOR HOSTED BY: COLORADO ENERGY RESEARCH COLLABORATORY TIME: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2020 – 10:00AM […]
Please join Payne Institute Senior Research Associate Sara Hastings-Simon, David Keith, and Ed Whittingham, on the Energy vs. Climate series for a webinar titled Critical Minerals for Clean Technologies: Canada’s Competitive Edge? on Thursday, October 8, 2020 from 12:00pm-1:00pm MT. TOPIC: CRITICAL MINERALS FOR CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES: CANADA’S COMPETITIVE EDGE? HOSTED BY: ENERGY VS. CLIMATE, A PAYNE INSTITUTE PARTNER TIME: THURSDAY, OCTOBER […]
Lorena G. Moscardelli, Equinor Principal Researcher Geology Title: Deep-water Processes and Deposits, from Mass Transport Complexes in Eastern Offshore Trinidad to Mixed Siliciclastic-Carbonate Systems in Offshore Nova Scotia and a Bit More Abstract: According to NASA, only between 5 to 15 percent of the seafloor has been surveyed by traditional sonar techniques. In contrast, Mars […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
“This Is Your Home”: Leadership, Race, and the Self with Norman Coultier Details: Author James Baldwin once wrote to his nephew, “For this is your home, my friend, do not […]
Please join Payne Institute Senior Research Associate Sara Hastings-Simon, David Keith, and Ed Whittingham, with special guest Dr. Leah Stokes, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and affiliated with the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and the Environmental Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), on the Energy vs. Climate series for a webinar […]
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 […]
Please join the Business Renewables Centre Canada and Payne Institute Senior Research Associate Sara Hastings-Simon present a webinar titled RECs and Carbon Offsets on Tuesday, November 10, 2020 from 11:00am – 12:00pm MT. TOPIC: RECs AND CARBON OFFSETS SPEAKER: PAYNE INSTITUTE SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE SARA HASTINGS-SIMON HOSTED BY: BUSINESS RENEWABLES CENTRE (BRC) TIME: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2020 – 11:00AM – 12:00PM MT FORMAT: WEBINAR […]
Dimitri Dounas-Frazer and Ira Ché Lassen Western Washington University Abstract: Many lab courses include a final project that spans multiple weeks. Such projects serve several purposes, including nurturing students’ sense of project ownership. Project ownership refers in part to students’ control over and responsibility for an experiment. Research in science education suggests that ownership, motivation, […]
November 11, 2020 5pm: The REPARATION AND FORGIVENESS Panel with Norman Coultier, Shann Ray Ferch, and Marleen Ramsey: experiential event on leadership, forgiveness, charity, and race Details: Panel discussion on Forgiveness, Leadership, Equity with three experts in Forgiveness Scholarship BIO: American Book Award winner Dr. Shann Ray Ferch spent part of his childhood on the […]
November 11, 2020 5pm: The REPARATION, EMPATHY & FORGIVENESS Panel with Norman Coultier, Shann Ray Ferch, and Marleen Ramsey: experiential event on leadership, forgiveness, charity, and race. Details: Panel discussion on Forgiveness, Leadership, Equity with three experts in Forgiveness Scholarship Norman Coultier is a native of Inglewood and South (Central) Los Angeles, California and grew […]
Please join Québec Mines + Énergie as they welcome Payne Institute Senior Research Associate Dr. Sara Hastings-Simon on a webinar titled Critical and Strategic Minerals Strategies in the United States and Europe – What Place for Quebec? on Monday, November 16, 2020 from 9:15am – 11:30am (MT). TOPIC: CRITICAL AND STRATEGIC MINERALS STRATEGIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE – WHAT […]
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 […]
Water is a symbol of life, wisdom, fertility, purity, and death. Water also sustains and nourishes, irrigates our crops, keeps us clean and healthy, and contributes to our energy needs. But a strain has been put on our water resources as increased energy demands combine with the effects of climate change to create a treacherous […]
November 16th, 2020 5pm: “Water in Contemporary Literature and Film” Paula Farca Book Talk Details: Water is a symbol of life, wisdom, fertility, purity, and death. Water also sustains and nourishes, irrigates our crops, keeps us clean and healthy, and contributes to our energy needs. But a strain has been put on our water resources […]
Please join the University of Cambridge, UK as they welcome Payne Institute Director Morgan Bazilian for a webinar titled Towards a Just Transition on Tuesday, November 17, 2020 from 8:00am – 9:00am MT. TOPIC: TOWARDS A JUST TRANSITION SPEAKER: PAYNE DIRECTOR MORGAN D. BAZILIAN HOSTED BY: THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK TIME: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2020 – 8:00AM – 9:00AM […]
Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Steven J. Davis, JD, PhD, Professor of Earth System Science and Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, presenting at webinar titled Unit-Level Analyses of the Power Sector on Tuesday, November 17, 2020 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm […]
Joe Berry National Renewable Energy Laboratory Abstract: Photovoltaic (PV) devices based on metal halide perovskite (MHP) absorbers have reached outstanding performance over the past few years, surpassing power conversion efficiency of over 25% for lab cells and with large area devices in excess of 18%. For the solar application stability, the most demanding requirement to […]
Join us as we discuss with distinguished Doctor Kevin Moore about his experience working, teaching, and researching as an electrical engineer while focusing on design, education, diversity, and inclusion. Dr. Moore’s interests include iterative learning, robotics, and robotics systems. He is the executive director of Humanitarian Engineering and the director of the Robotics Program at […]
Please join Payne Institute Senior Research Associate Sara Hastings-Simon, David Keith, and Ed Whittingham, on the Energy vs. Climate series for a webinar titled Climate Finance for Oil and Gas on Wednesday, November 18, 2020 from 1:00pm – 2:00 p.m. MT. TOPIC: CLIMATE FINANCE FOR OIL AND GAS HOSTED BY: ENERGY VS. CLIMATE, A PAYNE INSTITUTE PARTNER TIME: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, […]
The Payne Institute for Public Policy at Colorado School of Mines is pleased to host members of the NSF Partnerships for International Research and Education Program (PIRE) Responsible Mining, Responsible Communities project – Kathleen Smits, Michelle Schwartz, and Jose Velasquez, Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington presenting at webinar titled Environmental Remediation in Artisanal […]
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 […]