Week of Events
#OrediggersForEquity
Every Monday, the Mines community sets aside 30 minutes to learn more about racial equity in STEM. Orediggers unite to support an equitable and just campus community. Share what you're doing with others by using #OrediggersForEquity. Need some ideas? Check out Mines DI&A's advocates for racial equity resources.
Professional Development Workshops, Week 3
Fall Career Day is now three days: Sept. 15, 16 & Oct. 14 Prepare for Fall Career Day by attending one of the Career Center's workshops or resume reviews with the expert team from the Career Center. These workshops are available to all students virtually and will be both livestreamed and recorded. Please visit DiggerNet […]
Minimizing Microaggressions
Minimizing Microaggressions
Through interactive skill-building group work, this professional development opportunity discusses how to challenge microaggressions (unintentional slights or invalidations often directed toward members of underrepresented communities) when they arise and how to become agents of change. Workshop facilitated by Dena Samuels from Dena Samuels Consulting. Intended audience: Mines faculty, staff and students Register using the link […]
Mindful Monday – Virtual
Mindful Monday – Virtual
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 […]
Disability Technologies: Ethical Pitfalls and Social Responsibilities
Disability Technologies: Ethical Pitfalls and Social Responsibilities
Abstract: People often talk about designing for disabled people as engineering in a humanitarian mode, and designers are lauded for their work to help people when it concerns disability technology. There is resistance to how this work is cast from the disability community. Our community often sees projects developed without rich engagement with the relevant […]
Payne Institute Webinar: Transforming Oil/Gas Companies to Energy Companies: The New Narrative?
Payne Institute Webinar: Transforming Oil/Gas Companies to Energy Companies: The New Narrative?
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: […]
Physics colloquium-“Understanding the Brain with Adaptive Optics”
Physics colloquium-“Understanding the Brain with Adaptive Optics”
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. […]
Climate Change, Disability, and Equity: An Evening with Alex Ghenis
Climate Change, Disability, and Equity: An Evening with Alex Ghenis
As climate change and our understanding of it progresses, it is clear that we will need to reduce our emissions and adapt to new environments and economies. People with disabilities are affected in unique ways by climate change, but are too often left out of plans and actions by stakeholders. Ghenis will contextualize how people […]
Payne Institute Webinar: Scaling Up the Hydrogen Economy: Assessing Challenges and Opportunities for Hydrogen Production and Applications
Payne Institute Webinar: Scaling Up the Hydrogen Economy: Assessing Challenges and Opportunities for Hydrogen Production and Applications
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 […]
Contention in the Energy Sector – Webinar
Contention in the Energy Sector – Webinar
–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 […]
Critical Materials for Clean Technologies: Canada’s Competitive Edge? Webinar
Critical Materials for Clean Technologies: Canada’s Competitive Edge? Webinar
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 […]
Mines@Catalyst conversation with Veloce Digital – SmartTab
Mines@Catalyst conversation with Veloce Digital – SmartTab
Join us for the conversation with Veloce Digital - SmartTab , a digital medicine company to know about their smart injectables and how they transform into ingestibles for oral biologics and the progress as a startup in the future of digital medicine on Thursday, October 8th, 2020 at 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Join Zoom […]
Van Tuyl Lecture (Virtual): Lorena G. Moscardelli, Equinor
Van Tuyl Lecture (Virtual): Lorena G. Moscardelli, Equinor
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 […]
CBE Shell Seminar Series: Paul Shearing, University of College London, The Role of Advanced X-ray Characterisation in Understanding Degradation and Failure in Li-ion Batteries
CBE Shell Seminar Series: Paul Shearing, University of College London, The Role of Advanced X-ray Characterisation in Understanding Degradation and Failure in Li-ion Batteries
Paul Shearing of the University of College London will give a talk on "The Role of Advanced X-ray Characterisation in Understanding Degradation and Failure in Li-ion Batteries."