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Investing in Mines’ Initiative Corporate and Foundation Partners Make their Mark at Mines Investments from corporations, foundations and other organizations are essential to Mines’ continued leadership in earth, energy and environment. Their support for Mines’ people and programs sustains the school’s distinction in engineering and applied science teaching and research. Metallurgical and materials engineering has long been one of Mines’ areas of expertise thanks in part to support from industry partners like U.S. Steel. The company has been a loyal partner of the school, with recent gifts from U.S. Steel Foundation, Inc. going to fund the U.S. Steel Scholarship Program, which supported 20 metallurgy undergraduates last year. In addition, U.S. Steel provides ongoing support for Mines’ Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center (ASPPRC). David Matlock, center director and a professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, says, “U.S. Steel has been a vital corporate partner through its ongoing support for promising metallurgy students at Mines and contributions to the ASPPRC. With their investments, we are better able to prepare future leaders in metallurgy and materials engineering, and to take the lead in advancing ferrous metallurgy nationwide.” With approximately a half million dollars in support for scholarships, fellowships and faculty development since 1995, the Henry Luce Foundation has fostered continued excellence at Mines. The New York foundation’s Clare Booth Luce Program is one of the most significant sources of private support for women in science, mathematics and engineering in the U.S., and, in 2004, the Luce Foundation established the Clare Booth Luce Professorship in Engineering at Mines. Kathryn Johnson was appointed the Luce Assistant Professor in the Division of Engineering in 2005. Under the leadership of Johnson and her colleagues at partner universities and national laboratories, a new center – Colorado Research in Education and Wind (CREW) – was recently approved to advance the science of wind power. CREW is one of six centers created and planned as part of the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory, a research partnership among Mines, Colorado State University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. 14
With a $300,000 gift, the Xcel Energy Foundation is investing in research that will lead to more efficient energy technologies and a cleaner environment in Colorado. Xcel’s grant helped establish the Colorado Clean Energy and Environment Project, administered by the Colorado Energy Research Institute (CERI) housed at the school. Kevin Moore, Gerard A. Dobelman Distinguished Chair and engineering professor at Mines, says, “The long-term impact of this project will be that Coloradoans can enjoy clean and efficient energy through improved conventional energy generation capabilities and widespread adoption of distributed, renewable energy technologies.” Mines’ project partners include the University of Colorado and Colorado State University, the three of which will draw upon their combined research and development expertise to address some of the technical barriers to clean energy generation and distribution in the state. The Adolph Coors Foundation has been a valued partner of Colorado School of Mines since the 1970s. Last year, the foundation made contributions totaling $1,097,000 to support scholarships, the Student Recreation Center and two endowed faculty positions. Nigel Sammes joined Mines’ Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering in 2007 as the Herman F. Coors Professorial Chair in Ceramics. The focus of his research at the Colorado Center for Advanced Ceramics (CCAC) is the development of the fundamental knowledge that generates technological developments in advanced ceramics and composite materials. Anthony Dean holds the other faculty position established at Mines by the Coors Foundation. As William K. Coors Distinguished Chair in Chemical Engineering, Dean leads a dynamic kinetics research team and teaches in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Dean says, “Establishment of the Coors Chair was a major factor in my decision to come to Mines. These funds gave me the flexibility to jumpstart our research program and allowed me to add a senior researcher to my team. With this support, we have developed detailed models that range from the kinetics in solid-oxide fuel cells, to biomass conversion, to combustion of alternate fuels.” The Viola Vestal Coulter Foundation has been an invaluable partner of Mines for more than four decades, contributing to the school through scholarships, fellowships, faculty support and programs with nearly $2.3 million in total gifts, $110,000 last year alone. The Coulter Foundation has been vital to the evolution of Mines’ mineral economics program, now regarded as one of the finest such programs in the world. As part of its ongoing support, the Coulter Foundation established a named professorship in economics to help Mines attract experts in the field. John Cuddington, the William Jesse Coulter Professor of Mineral Economics, joined Mines in 2005. An expert on modeling and forecasting commodity prices, Cuddington attributes his expanding research activities to the availability of funding from the Coulter Foundation. “Coulter funding has been pivotal in facilitating my pursuit of new aspects of my research on trends and cycles in metals prices, namely the measurement and modeling of super cycles in metal prices. Over the past year, this has resulted in two published journal articles with my PhD student co-author, Daniel Jerrett, plus a number of additional research papers that are still in process.” 15
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