Mines team awarded $2.5M to help build a NASA balloon experiment to investigate high energy cosmic rays, neutrinos An international research project, in which Colorado School of Mines is a leading institution, hopes to observe these particles from high in the Earth’s atmosphere to better understand where they come … Building the future of quantum engineering at Colorado School of Mines As Colorado emerges as a hub for quantum technology, one of the nation’s first quantum engineering programs – located right here at Mines – is preparing students for the challenges of working in the q … New Nature article outlines how research led at Mines achieved breakthrough in our understanding of neutrinos A team of researchers, led in part by Colorado School of Mines Postdoctoral Researcher Joseph Smolsky and Associate Professor of Physics Kyle Leach, along with a large local undergraduate and graduate … Mines researchers contribute to creation of world’s first quantum magnet in one dimension In a paper recently published in the journal Nature, a team of physicists from Colorado School of Mines, Duke University, Michigan State University, and the University of Maryland realized the dream o … Meenakshi Singh wins Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award for quantum research in India Meenakshi Singh, associate professor of physics at Colorado School of Mines, has won a Fulbright-Nehru Professional and Academic Excellence Award to conduct quantum physics research at one of the top … 5 Mines professors named University Distinguished Professors University Distinguished Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Professor are the highest honorific titles that can be conferred on a professor at Mines.3000-pound NASA balloon payload, prepared at Mines, now in shipment to New Zealand for launch “The complexity and scope of this mission is a good demonstration of the breadth of research going on in the Physics Department and at Mines as a whole,” Professor Lawrence Wiencke said.Mines PhD candidate honored at SPIE Photonics West conference Daniel Scarbrough, a PhD candidate in applied physics at Colorado School of Mines, was named runner up in the JenLab Young Investigator Award at SPIE Photonics West. Photonics West is the largest annu … Mines, CSU researchers combine classical, quantum optics for super-resolution imaging Mines' Jeff Squier and CSU's Randy Bartels were recently awarded a $1.2 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to build the electronics and light detectors fast enough to capture … Mines professor named to prestigious cohort of experimental physicists for subatomic research A Colorado School of Mines professor is among the inaugural cohort of experimental physicists to receive a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.