20 Notable alumni of
Colorado School of Mines
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The Colorado School of Mines is 2007th in the world, 695th in North America, and 655th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 20 notable alumni from the Colorado School of Mines sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Shane Carwin
- Occupations
- mixed martial arts fighter
- Biography
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Shane Bannister Carwin is an American former mixed martial artist who competed in the Heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He is a former Interim UFC Heavyweight Champion. He is considered to be one of the hardest hitting athletes to ever fight in the UFC.
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George Saunders
- Occupations
- translatorwriterfantasy authorgeophysicistjournalist
- Biography
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George Saunders is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, and GQ. He also contributed a weekly column, "American Psyche", to The Guardian's weekend magazine between 2006 and 2008.
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Antônio Ermírio de Moraes
- Occupations
- authorbusinessperson
- Biography
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Antônio Ermírio de Moraes was a Brazilian billionaire businessman and the chairman of the Votorantim Group, one of the country's largest companies, focused on metals, paper, cement and frozen orange juice. He was the grandfather of IndyCar Series driver Mario Moraes.
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Derrick Jensen
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- novelistenvironmentalistwriterphilosopher
- Biography
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Derrick Jensen is an American ecophilosopher, writer, author, teacher and environmentalist in the anarcho-primitivist tradition, though he rejects the label "anarchist". Utne Reader named Jensen among "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World" in 2008, and Democracy Now! says that he "has been called the poet-philosopher of the ecology movement".
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Wendell Fertig
- Occupations
- civil engineerengineer
- Biography
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Wendell Fertig was an American civil engineer, in the American-administered Commonwealth of the Philippines, who organized and commanded an American-Filipino guerrilla force on the Japanese-occupied, southern Philippine island of Mindanao during World War II. Fertig's widely scattered guerrilla force numbered approximately 32,000. He faced about 50,000 Japanese soldiers, mostly garrison troops in towns and cities.
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Purnomo Yusgiantoro
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- head commissionercivil servantacademiccommissionerinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Purnomo Yusgiantoro is an Indonesian politician. He served as Minister of Defense in the Second United Indonesia Cabinet from 2009 to 2014. Previously, he served as Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources from 2000 to 2009. He also served as secretary-general of OPEC in 2004.
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Randy A. George
- Enrolled in the Colorado School of Mines
- Graduated with master's degree in economics
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Randy Alan George is a United States Army general who has served as the 41st chief of staff of the United States Army since 21 September 2023, having served in an acting capacity from 4 August 2023. He most recently served as the 38th vice chief of staff of the United States Army from August 2022 to September 2023, and previously served as the senior military assistant to the United States Secretary of Defense.
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John P. Allen
- Occupations
- explorer
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John Polk Allen is a systems ecologist, engineer, metallurgist, adventurer, and writer. Allen is a proponent of the science of biospherics and a pioneer in sustainable co-evolutionary development. He is the founder of Synergia Ranch, and is best known as the inventor and director of research of Biosphere 2, the world's largest vivarium and research facility to study global ecology. Biosphere 2 set multiple records in closed ecological systems work, including degree of sealing tightness, 100% waste and water recycle, and duration of human residence within a closed system (eight people for two years). He is also involved with forestry and reforestation in Puerto Rico where he owns a 1000 acre Mahogany tree farm at Patillas.
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Sao Kya Hseng
- Occupations
- agronomistpoliticianmining engineer
- Biography
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Sao Kya Seng or Sao Kya Hseng was a politician, a mining engineer, an agriculturalist and the last Saopha of Hsipaw State, Myanmar, from 1947 to 1959.
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Frank J. Shakespeare
- Occupations
- businesspersondiplomat
- Biography
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Francis Joseph Shakespeare was an American diplomat, political consultant and media executive. He was the president of CBS before entering public service. He served as the United States ambassador to Portugal from 1985 to 1986 and the United States ambassador to the Holy See from 1986 to 1989. He later served as an honorary member of the board of trustees for The Heritage Foundation.
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Robert H. Waterman, Jr
- Years
- 1936-2022 (aged 86)
- Occupations
- business theorist
- Biography
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Robert H. Waterman Jr. was a non-fiction author and expert on business management practices.
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William M. Ketchum
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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William Matthew Ketchum was an American businessman and Republican Party politician who was a member of the California State Assembly from 1967 to 1973 and a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1973 until his death.
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Arden L. Bement, Jr
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Arden Lee Bement Jr. is an American engineer and scientist and has served in executive positions in government, industry and academia.
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Charles Arthur Banks
- Occupations
- politicianentrepreneur
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Charles Arthur Banks, was the 17th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.
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Kennda Lynch
- Enrolled in the Colorado School of Mines
- In 2008 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- geomicrobiologistastrobiologist
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Kennda Lian Lynch is an American astrobiologist and geomicrobiologist who studies polyextremophiles. She has primarily been affiliated with NASA. She identifies environments on Earth with characteristics that may be similar to environments on other planets, and creates models that help identify characteristics that would indicate an environment might host life. Lynch also identifies what biosignatures might look like on other planets. Much of Lynch's research on analog environments has taken place in the Pilot Valley Basin in the Great Salt Desert of northwestern Utah, U.S. Her work in that paleolake basin informed the landing location of NASA's Perseverance Rover mission—at another paleolake basin called Jezero Crater. Jim Greene, Chief Scientist at NASA, called Lynch "a perfect expert to be involved in the Perseverance rover." Helping to select the proper landing site for NASA's first crewed mission to Mars in 2035 is another of Lynch's projects. Lynch has appeared in multiple television series, as well as The New York Times, Nature, Scientific American, and Popular Science. Cell Press designated Lynch one of the most inspiring Black scientists in the United States.
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Craig Thompson
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Craig Thompson is an American soccer player who currently plays for Real Colorado Foxes in the USL Premier Development League.
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Jan Miller
- Occupations
- chemistengineermetallurgist
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Jan Dean Miller is an American engineer, currently Distinguished Professor of metallurgical engineering and Ivor D. Thomas Endowed Chair at University of Utah.
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Arthur S. Adams
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Arthur Stanton Adams was an American academic most notable for having served as the President of the University of New Hampshire. He also served as Assistant Dean of Engineering and Director of the Engineering Science Management War Training Program and Provost at Cornell. In 1948 he was appointed the 8th president of the University of New Hampshire. He was chairman of the Reserve Forces Policy Board at the United States Department of Defense from 1953 to 1955. From 1962 to 1965, he served as the second president of the Salzburg Global Seminar, a non-profit organization based in Salzburg, Austria, whose mission is to challenge current and future leaders to develop creative ideas for solving global problems. Dr. Adams co-authored The Development of Physical Thought and Fundamentals of Thermodynamics.
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Souad Naji Al-Azzawi
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- academicpostdoctoral researcheruniversity teacherscientist
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Souad Naji Al-Azzawi is an Iraqi environmentalist and academic researcher in various engineering disciplines, in addition to having established and assisted in the establishment of multiple research & academic institutions in Iraq. With more than 50 published scientific papers on topics ranging from water desalination, nuclear waste management, and Depleted Uranium contamination among others, she is a distinguished member of the Iraqi scientific community and the first Arab to receive the Nuclear-Free Future Award.
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Howard W. Leaf
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Howard Wesley Leaf was a lieutenant general in the United States Air Force. He served as a fighter pilot during the Korean War and Vietnam War and retired as assistant vice chief of staff at the Pentagon in 1984.
