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Anne Marie Mozrall, PhD candidate in civil and environmental engineering, is leading a study looking at microplastics that have found their way into the South Platte River.

Christopher Higgins, AMAX Distinguished Chair and professor of civil and environmental engineering, says big conversations are being had on the best ways to handle PFAS; he is the director of the new PFAS Remedial Technology Engineering Center.

A new study in Nature Water by Adrienne Marshall, assistant professor of geology and geological engineering, and Steven Smith, associate professor of economics and business, provides insight into how climate change is impacting senior and junior water rights holders.

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, co-authored this article that examines how the Iran war is pushing Asian countries back toward the utilization of coal as an energy source.

Matt Morgan, director of the Colorado Geological Survey, said the Earth MRI hyperspectral campaign highlights the importance of investment in geoscience data collection across the western U.S.

Andrew Lattanner, director of federal relations, discusses Mines' new critical minerals partnership with the National Lab of the Rockies.

Colorado School of Mines is partnering in Guam with the Applied Science and Technology Research Organization of America (ASTRO) and the University of Guam to build a pipeline of locally trained mechanical engineers.

This article is authored by Lucas Bessire, professor of anthropology and co-director of the Center for Ethnography at Mines.

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, warns that the United States' AI ambitions could be restrained by a shortage of a little-known semiconductor material, indium phosphide.

Mines' new undergraduate degree program in Quantum Systems Engineering will welcome its first cohort of students this fall.

Ann Marie Mozrall, PhD candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is researching the presence of microplastics in the South Platte River.

Thomas Albrecht, professor of chemistry and director of the Nuclear Science and Engineering Center, explains that microreactors use nowhere near the amount of water that traditional, much bigger nuclear power plants require.