Gamechanger leverages deep partnerships with outside bodies, such as the Colorado School of Mines, to introduce novel concepts.

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Matthew Simmons has given 30-plus speeches in the past year, to audiences as diverse as the Pentagon and the Colorado School of Mines.

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Studies done by Mark Lusk and colleagues at the Colorado School of Mines could significantly improve the efficiency of solar cells.

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Mr. Nichols graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1966 and received his MBA from Southern Methodist University in 1969.

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After growing up in Socorro, New Mexico, Bhappu got degrees in metallurgical engineering at the University of Arizona, and a PhD in mineral economics from the Colorado School of Mines.

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Founded in 2001 by two graduate students from the Colorado School of Mines, Oberon aims to address the fish-feed problem by serving farmed fish the bacteria used to eat up the excess food in wastewater streams of food-processing plants.

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He paid for college and law school at the University of Colorado by leasing and operating small gold mines in the mountains near Boulder.

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