The 2019 NobelPrize in Physics has been awarded with one half to James Peebles “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology” and the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.”
Wendy Adams elected fellow of American Physical Society Wendy Adams, research associate professor of physics at Colorado School of Mines, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society. Fellowship in APS recognizes members who have made except …
Toberer honored with Presidential Early Career Award The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government to scientists and engineers who are early in their careers as researchers and show leadership promise in fields of science and technolog …
American Physical Society recognizes Kapit for advocacy “Every year, APS honors a select group of members with the 5 Sigma Physicist Award for performing outstanding advocacy that is crucial to maintaining the strength of the U.S. scientific enterprise,” w …
Advanced solar technologies awarded $2M in DOE funding A pair of Colorado School of Mines-led teams have been awarded more than $2 million by the U.S. Department of Energy for research that could lower the cost of solar electricity. Greg Jackson, professo …
Mines professor celebrates PhD advisor’s 2018 Nobel win Like many researchers who specialize in lasers, Jeff Squier was excited to hear this week that three scientists had won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering work with the intense beams …
Complex qubit network could speed up quantum computing Quantum computers will soon be able to perform tasks that not even the most powerful classical computers are capable of today. An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Colorado School of Mines has …
3 Mines graduate students to conduct research at DOE labs Three Colorado School of Mines students have received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to conduct part of their graduate thesis research at DOE national laboratories. Natalie Seitzman, Natha …
CoorsTek sculpture transforms aluminum oxide into art A new art installation – made of 240 specially designed aluminum oxide ceramic tiles manufactured by CoorsTek – now crowns the ceiling of the CoorsTek Center for Applied Science and Engineering. Artis …
Materials informatics fellowship trains next-gen workforce Materials informatics is the next frontier of materials science, taking computational and machine learning tools and applying them to characterizing and discovering materials. A group of Colorado Scho …
