CoorsTek granted a $27 million investment to the university, leading to the 2017 opening of the CoorsTek Center for Applied Science and Engineering, a multi-disciplinary building on campus dedicated to both academic and research activities.
Since 1964, the Colorado School of Mines has hosted the annual oil shale symposium, one of the most important international oil shale conferences. Although the series of symposia stopped after 1992, the tradition was restored in 2006.
=== Presidents ===
Edward J. Mallett – 1873
Gregory Board – 1875
Milton Moss – 1878
Albert C. Hale – 1880
Regis Chauvenet – 1883
Charles S. Palmer – 1902
Victor C. Alderson – 1903
William G. Haldane – 1913
William B. Phillips – 1915
Howard C. Parmelee – 1916
Victor C. Alderson – 1917
Melville F. Coolbaugh – 1925
Ben H. Parker – 1946
John W Vanderwilt – 1950
Orlo E. Childs – 1963
Guy T. McBride, Jr. – 1970
George S. Ansell – 1984
Theodore A. Bickart – 1998
John U. Trefny – 2000
Myles W. Scoggins – 2006
Paul C. Johnson – 2015
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