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Elevate Quantum groundbreaking ceremony kicks off the quantum future for Colorado and Rocky Mountain West

Colorado School of Mines, Idaho National Laboratory Announce Partnership

Elevate Quantum awarded $40.5M to expand quantum ecosystem in Colorado, Mountain West

The neutrino’s quantum fuzziness is beginning to come into focus

Mines researchers contribute to creation of world’s first quantum magnet in one dimension

Elevate Quantum puts Colorado – and Mines – at forefront of future innovation

Meenakshi Singh wins Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award for quantum research in India

5 Mines professors named University Distinguished Professors

3000-pound astroparticle NASA balloon payload, prepared at Mines, now in shipment to New Zealand for launch

Mines PhD candidate honored at SPIE Photonics West conference

Researchers have proposed a new method to search for invisible particles called sterile neutrinos using a glass nanoparticle suspended by laser light.

Mines, CSU researchers combine classical, quantum optics for super-resolution imaging

Mines professor named to prestigious cohort of experimental physicists for subatomic research

New integrative scholars program offers customizable learning experiences in sustainable energy

Colorado School of Mines recognized with R1 research university classification

Harnessing data for materials discovery goal of new $15M NSF Institute for Data-Driven Dynamical Design

Mines Quantum Engineering Program wins $3M NSF grant for graduate student training

Colorado School of Mines, CU Boulder awarded prestigious W.M. Keck Foundation grant for developing new quantum technology

Meenakshi Singh wins NSF CAREER Award for quantum dot research

Quantum industry needs engineers. Colorado School of Mines is co-sponsoring NSF workshop to build the educational roadmap

Controlling a subtle chemical impurity could hold key to more stable halide perovskite solar materials

MINES RESEARCHERS ON THE HUNT FOR “GHOST PARTICLES” WITH QUANTUM SENSORS

Synergistic collaboration leads to new strategy for biomedical 3-D imaging

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.
Free energy efficiency assessments now available for Colorado, Wyoming businesses
Colorado School of Mines, in partnership with Red Rocks Community College, is now offering free energy system assessments for local manufacturers, with the goal of helping them improve their facilitie …
19 Mines faculty members awarded promotion, tenure for 2022-2023
The Colorado School of Mines Board of Trustees has awarded promotions and/or tenure to 19 Mines faculty members for the 2022-2023 academic year. Additionally, five Mines faculty members were granted t …
New integrative scholars program offers customizable learning experiences in sustainable energy
Sustainable Energy@Mines (SE@M) is a fully customizable pathway of distinction, combining classroom instruction, co-curricular and extracurricular experiences alongside opportunities for community bui …

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