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Hennebach Lecture Series: Education in Afghanistan: Promoting Local Solutions to Address Complex Realities

Marquez Hall 1600 Arapahoe St., Golden, CO, United States

HB Lecture Series presents Education in Afghanistan: Promoting Local Solutions to Address Complex Realities Education in Afghanistan, particularly girls’ education, is making headlines again as education policies and structures are rearranged under the new government of Taliban. While discourse on education in Afghanistan is embedded with assumptions about the Afghan culture and Islam, a closer […]

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Mines Kayak Club Pool Session at SRC Pool

Student Recreation Center 1651 Elm St, Golden, CO, United States

The Kayak club has reserved pool times for students to be able to learn the basics of kayaking in a safe and controlled environment with experienced members that are happy to teach and introduce kayaking to students.  New kayakers will be able to learn the different kinds of paddle strokes to be able to go […]

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Physics Colloquium: “Engineering the Complex: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope”

CoorsTek Center for Applied Science and Engineering 1523 Illinois St., Golden, CO, United States

Daniel Porpora Ball Aerospace Abstract: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest, most complex, space telescope undertaken in NASA’s history. But why is it so? This talk will discuss why JWST is being built and how the ambitious science goals for it have led to such a unique and massive system. And we’ll […]

Graduate School Exploration Fair

Connect with representatives from graduate schools across the nation. Learn about a variety of graduate school options including law school, public policy, and advanced STEM degrees. The event is accessible to staff, faculty, and students through the Career Fair Plus platform.  Learn more about participating schools and event details on DiggerNet.

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Engineering 3D-Printed, Phototunable Models of Pulmonary Arterial Adventitia to Study Sex Differences in Fibroblast Activation

Alderson Hall 1613 Illinois St., Golden, CO, United States

Welcome Dr. Chelsea Magin, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Bioengineering, Pediatrics and Medicine and the Principal Investigator of the Bio-inspired Pulmonary Engineering Laboratory at the University of Colorado, Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus. Abstract: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a form of a pulmonary vascular disease that causes high blood pressure in the lungs. It […]

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Why Graduate School? A Conversation with Current Graduate Students

Green Center 924 16th Street, Golden, CO, United States

Join an informational dialogue with current graduate students about their decisions to pursue a graduate degree, lessons learned, and advice. Free lunch provided! Date: 11/3/21 Time: 12-1pm Location: GC 200C Learn more on DiggerNet.

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Funding a Graduate Degree

Green Center 924 16th Street, Golden, CO, United States

Learn general advice and information about how to fund a graduate degree and what to consider financially when choosing a graduate education. Free lunch provided! Date: 11/4 Time: 12-1 pm […]

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Van Tuyl Lecture: Adrienne Marshall, CSM Geology and Geological Engineering

Berthoud Hall 1516 Illinois St., Golden, CO, United States

Adrienne Marshall, Colorado School of Mines Geology & Geological Engineering Thursday, November 4, 2021, 4PM, BE 241/ Virtual Topic: Hydrologic Modeling in Discontinuous Boreal Permafrost: Model Sensitivity and Uncertainty in Non-stationary Climates Abstract: Process-based hydrologic models are the gold standard for simulating hydrologic conditions in future climates. These are particularly important in regions with complex […]

Library Concert Series featuring Rebecca Flintoft

Arthur Lakes Library 1410 Illinois St., Golden, CO, United States

Rebecca Flintoft (voice & cello) will perform a variety of traditional and contemporary tunes arranged for voice and cello, including Irish-Scottish folk songs, country and bluegrass, gospel, and jazz. Becca is […]

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Mines DI&A Council Meeting – General Campus

Guggenheim Hall 1500 Illinois St., Golden, CO, United States

The purpose of these monthly meetings is to engage all departments and campus units in guiding Mines DI&A, support your unit DI&A diversity efforts, share best practices as we implement our Strategic Plan for DI&A, and facilitate communication between the campus community and leadership. These meetings are open to the general campus.

Build and Maintain Your Scholarly Identity

Arthur Lakes Library 1410 Illinois St., Golden, CO, United States

This session will introduce “scholarly identities” and how to build and maintain your scholarly identity. This session will also cover online academic profile platforms and give attendees the chance to explore ORCID.

PE Distinguished Seminar: Dr. Rajesh Pawar, Senior Scientist and Engineer from Los Alamos National Lab

Marquez Hall 1600 Arapahoe St., Golden, CO, United States

CCUS – The need for it and its current status Capture of Carbon dioxide (CO2) and its storage or utilization (CCUS) is one of the technologies that will be part of the portfolio of solutions needed to reduce anthropogenic emissions of CO2 in response to climate change. There have been extensive research, development and demonstration […]

Physics Colloquium: “Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing from NIST to Mines: Novel Voxel & Sub-Voxel-Scale Characterization Throughout All Major Stages of the Printing Process”

CoorsTek Center for Applied Science and Engineering 1523 Illinois St., Golden, CO, United States

Callie Higgins NIST Abstract: Vat photopolymerization is a powerful additive manufacturing technique that address many applications ranging from personalized medicine to large-scale manufacturing. Unfortunately, these printing processes introduce micrometer-scale anisotropic inhomogeneities due to the resin absorptivity, diffusivity, reaction kinetics, and swelling during the requisite photoexposure. Previously, it has not been possible to characterize high-resolution mechanical […]

Alternative Engineering Careers Panel

Virtual Event CO, United States

Join the Humanitarian Engineering program and the Mines Career Center for an exciting virtual conversation with professionals from non-traditional engineering careers! Through small-group discussions, learn how panelists entered and shaped their careers after receiving degrees in STEM and how they maintain a focus on their core values as their complete their work. Students will be […]

Transformations: Energy, Infrastructure, eMobility Conference – Webinar

Please join the 21st Century Energy Transition for the Transformations: Energy, Infrastructure, eMobility Conference on Thursday, November 11, 2021 from 8:00am – 10:30am (MT). TOPIC:  TRANSFORMATIONS: ENERGY, INFRASTRUCTURE, EMOBILITY CONFERENCE SPEAKER:  DR. IAN LANGE, […]

Van Tuyl Lecture: Brendan Hanger, CSM Geology and Geological Engineering

Berthoud Hall 1516 Illinois St., Golden, CO, United States

Brendan Hanger, Colorado School of Mines Geology & Geological Engineering Thursday, November 11, 2021, 4PM, BE 241 Topic: The Story of One Garnet: Mantle Redox, Metasomatism and Kimberlite Ascent Abstract: Due to ability to host Fe in multiple valence states, garnet in peridotite allows us to explore the redox state of the mantle at high […]

Innov8x Flash Challenge

Global supply chains have been significantly disrupted in the wake of the Covid pandemic. The housing construction industry, in particular, has been severely impacted. Prices of lumber and steel, two key inputs, have risen dramatically. This has contributed in part to runaway home prices pushing home ownership out of reach for many more people. The […]

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Career Center Open House

Ben H. Parker Student Center 1200 16th St., Golden, CO, United States

The Career Center invites you to an open house.  Stop by our office (Student Center E180) to meet our staff, learn about our services, and enjoy some food and refreshments.  This event is part of Family & Friends Weekend.

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Physics Colloquium: “Unsupervised Machine Learning of Quantum Phase Transitions”

CoorsTek Center for Applied Science and Engineering 1523 Illinois St., Golden, CO, United States

Zhexuan Gong Colorado School of Mines, Physics Department Abstract:  Experimental quantum simulators have become large and complex enough that discovering new physics from the huge amount of measurement data can be quite challenging, especially when little theoretical understanding of the simulated model is available. Unsupervised machine learning methods are particularly promising in overcoming this challenge. […]

Minimizing Microaggression Learning and Skill Building Workshop

Virtual Event CO, United States

With some many new community members joining the Oredigger community this year—faculty, staff and students—comes an increase in requests for campus-wide diversity, inclusion and access learning opportunities. Join Dr. Amy Landis on November 17 at 9am MTN for Minimizing Microaggressions, an hour-long interactive workshop on how to identify and challenge microaggressions (unintentional slights or invalidations that […]

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Hennebach Lecture: We Don’t Know What We Want, We Don’t Know What We Know

Marquez Hall 1600 Arapahoe St., Golden, CO, United States

Join Author Elisa Gabbert for a discussion of the mysterious locus of control, exploring bias and competing interests, failings of memory and perceptions, the unconscious, parasitic mind control, the problem of free will and other ideas with troubling implications for how we view, interpret and respond to reality.

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Library Concert Series featuring Lesli Wood

Arthur Lakes Library 1410 Illinois St., Golden, CO, United States

Join us for the legendary and always enjoyable Lesli Wood in her 4th performance at Concerts in the Library. For this concert, she will answer the #1 question from audiences, “I wonder what the real story is behind that song?” Arkansas native Lesli Wood has been playing acoustic guitar, performing, writing and recording songs for […]

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PE Distinguished Seminar: Dr. J. Fred McLaughlin, School of Energy Resources at University of Wyoming

Marquez Hall 1600 Arapahoe St., Golden, CO, United States

Research and Opportunities for CCUS in Wyoming The energy industry is transitioning to low-carbon energy fuels and technologies. Undoubtedly, Wyoming, the largest fossil energy producing state within the Rockies, will experience large impacts during the low-carbon energy transition. These impacts, though, could be as positive in the long term for Wyoming. One of the most […]

Faculty Senate Regular Meetings

Virtual Event CO, United States

The Faculty Senate promotes cooperation and understanding among the various constituencies that comprise the school by: providing a forum for the Academic Faculty to express its concerns to the Administration and the Board of Trustees; encouraging the involvement of the Academic Faculty in the overall operation of the school; and fostering and maintaining a stimulating […]

PhysicsFest Happy Holidays!

CoorsTek Center for Applied Science and Engineering 1523 Illinois St., Golden, CO, United States

CoorsTek Atrium Physics majors, graduate students, faculty, staff, and alumni are invited! Food & Drink • Research Poster Session • Student Clubs • Physics Tracks • Over-21 Corner • Graduating Senior Awards

Capstone Senior Design Showcase

Green Center 924 16th Street, Golden, CO, United States

Please join us for the annual Capstone Design@MINES Showcase. This semester, over 20 teams will display their year-long, client-driven design projects. In addition to learning from Mines students, you can also meet project sponsors and Mines faculty who have supported our students along the way. Capstone student projects are always inspiring, so don’t miss this […]

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Library Concert Series featuring Miner Dissonance

Arthur Lakes Library 1410 Illinois St., Golden, CO, United States

Please join us for a special holiday concert presented by Miner Dissonance in their first appearance at the Concert Series.  They will be performing Christmas classics, like Deck the Halls, Mary Did You Know, O Christmas Tree, and many more! Miner Dissonance, a mixed voices a cappella  group, has been active on the Mines campus since 2011. The group […]

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Weimer Distinguished Lecture Speaker, David W. Houseknecht, USGS

Berthoud Hall 1516 Illinois St., Golden, CO, United States

Weimer Distinguished Lecture Saturday, December 4, 2021, 4:00PM, Student Center Grand Ballroom/ Virtual Speaker: David W. Houseknecht, United States Geological Survey Topic: Cretaceous Renaissance in Arctic Alaska – Huge Stratigraphic Oil Accumulations Hidden in Plain Sight in a Giant Cretaceous Clinothem Abstract: Between 1944 and 2013, more than 150 exploration wells penetrated the shallow Aptian […]

BOB WEIMER MEMORIAL RECEPTION

Ben H. Parker Student Center 1200 16th St., Golden, CO, United States

Bob Weimer Memorial Reception with the Weimer Family December 4, 2021, 5:30 - 9 pm Ben H. Parker Student Center Grand Ballroom/ Virtual Masks are required regardless of vaccination status unless actively eating meals and drinking. The reception is scheduled in a hybrid format. If you would like to join the presentation, please find the […]

International Reflections on the Outcome of COP 26 – Webinar

Virtual Event CO, United States

Please join REthink Energy and the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Director Morgan D. Bazilian presenting a virtual seminar titled International Reflections on the Outcome of COP 26 on Tuesday, December  7, 2021 at 7:00am (MT). TOPIC:  INTERNATIONAL REFLECTIONS ON THE OUTCOME OF COP26 SPEAKER: PAYNE INSTITUTE DIRECTOR MORGAN D. […]