New underground lab spaces drive next-level quantum research
Dr. Patrice Genevet was honored in the 2026 class of fellows for “advancing photonics with transformative metasurface innovations leading to breakthroughs in imaging, holography, and nanoscale light manipulation.”
Mines alum uses her aerospace career to give back and help inspire others
How one Mines alum used cycling to explore the world and redefine his purpose
Edgar Mine revamped into hub for quantum research, mine safety and innovative learning
APS Fellowship: Division of Nuclear Physics Fellowship
Kyle Leach, 2025 recipient, for pioneering work in applying superconducting sensors to the study of neutrino properties.
This laser would shoot beams of neutrinos, not light
Creating a neutrino laser would be challenging, says nuclear physicist Kyle Leach of Colorado School of Mines in Golden. But “there’s no showstopping conceptual reason why this shouldn’t work, at least not in my mind. And if it does succeed, the payoffs are huge.” If physicists get their hands on neutrino lasers, Leach says, “you can really start thinking about doing a wide range of new physics experiments that you otherwise couldn’t do.”
2025 Faculty Awards recognize excellence in teaching, research and mentorship
TheJunior Faculty Excellence in Research Award, for faculty members with less than 10 years of self-directed research, went to Kyle Leach, professor of physics. A member of the Mines faculty since 2015, Leach has raised over $4.5 million in research funding as a lead principal investigator at Mines, including the U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Award, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator Award, and Francis M. Pipkin Award from the American Physical Society. He is the head of the Electroweak Interactions Group at Mines and spokesperson for the Beryllium Electron capture in Superconducting Tunnel junctions (BeEST) Experiment
Colorado School of Mines is developing a quantum research lab inside a literal mine
CURIE – short for Colorado Underground Research Institute – will allow researchers to test quantum sensors and more in a very low background environment.
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 …
Device that replicates ‘coldest place in universe’ at home on Colorado School of Mines campus
Dilution fridge designed to house quantum computer is 270 times colder than deep space
Colorado School of Mines helps bring innovative quantum incubator to Colorado
New facility in Boulder joins 70-acre Quantum COmmons campus in Arvada, which features initial 30,000 square feet of shared-use facilities being developed by Mines
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 …
Kyle Leach wins 2025 Francis M. Pipkin Award
Leach, associate professor of physics, was honored by the American Physical Society
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.