19 Notable alumni of
Colorado School of Mines
The Colorado School of Mines is 1879th in the world, 643rd in North America, and 606th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 19 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
- writerjournalistuniversity teachergeological engineernovelist
- 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 weekend magazine of The Guardian 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 63)
- Occupations
- philosophernovelistenvironmentalistwriter
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Derrick Jensen is an American ecophilosopher, writer, author, teacher and environmentalist in the anarcho-primitivist tradition. Democracy Now! has referred to him as "the poet-philosopher of the ecology movement". Utne Reader named Jensen among "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World" in 2008. Jensen lives in Crescent City, California. He is a co-founder of Deep Green Resistance.
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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
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Purnomo Yusgiantoro is an Indonesian politician who is the former president-secretary general of OPEC, former Indonesian Minister of Energy for three presidents, and former Minister of Defense in the Second United Indonesia Cabinet.
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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
- politician
- 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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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 lieutenant general who serves as the Senior Military Assistant to the United States Secretary of Defense, succeeding Bryan P. Fenton. He most recently served as Commanding General of I Corps. Prior to that, he served as the Special Assistant to the Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army. Raised in Alden, Iowa, George earned a B.S. degree from the United States Military Academy in 1988. He later received a master's degree in economics from the Colorado School of Mines and a second master's degree in international security studies from the Naval War College.
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Frank Shakespeare
- Occupations
- businesspersondiplomat
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Francis J. Shakespeare is an American former diplomat and media executive. He was the president of CBS Television 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 now serves as an honorary member of the board of trustees for The Heritage Foundation.
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William M. Ketchum
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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William Matthew Ketchum was an American businessman and military veteran who served as a U.S. representative from California from 1973 to 1978.
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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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Craig Thompson
- Occupations
- association football player
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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
- engineermetallurgistchemist
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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
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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 1962-1965, 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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Kennda Lynch
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 48)
- Enrolled in the Colorado School of Mines
- In 2008 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- astrobiologistscientistgeomicrobiologistresearcher
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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 manned 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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Howard W. Leaf
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Howard Wesley Leaf was a United States Air Force lieutenant general who 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.
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Souad Naji Al-Azzawi
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- academicscientistpostdoctoral researcheruniversity teacherprofessor
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Souad Naji Al-Azzawi is an Iraqi environmentalist & academic researcher in various engineering disciplines, in addition to having established and assisted in the establishment of multiple research & academic institutions in Iraq. She is the first Arab to receive the Nuclear-Free Future Award, with has more than 50 published scientific papers on topics ranging from water desalination, nuclear waste management, and Depleted Uranium contamination among others and is a distinguished member of the Iraqi scientific community.
