Graduation Awards
Outstanding Graduating Senior
This award is given to undergraduate seniors who have displayed not only outstanding academic ability, but also community involvement and excellence in extracurricular activities.
2025 Tess Lozensky
2023 Everett Delate
2022 Jade Njo
2021 Caleb Workman
2020 Warren Scott Marshall
2019 Levi Cecil
2019 Alexander Adams
Hubert and Sarah Risser Award in Mineral and Energy Economics
Established through the generosity of Dr. Hubert Risser and Sarah Risser. The fund is to honor Dr. Risser, an alumnus of Mines (1937, Mining Engineering B.S., 1953 M.S.) and professor of Mineral Economics at the institution. He received the Distinguished Achievement Medal from Mines in 1970 for his achievements and enhancement of the reputation of Mines. Beyond working at Mines, he worked as a mineral economist for the Illinois State Geological Survey prior to joining the US Geological Survey. He also taught Mineral Economics at the University of Illinois.
The fund supports an annual award given to an outstanding student or students in Mineral and Energy Economics at the end of the year.
2025 Maxwell Fleming, London Spivey
2024 Kristina Pitman, Susana Palacios Lopez, Iyanna White
2023 Sangita Gayatri Kannan
2022 Dipesh Kumar Dipu
2021 Yuzhou Shen
2020 Emilio Castillo
2020 Andrew Moore
2020 Shashwat Sharma
2019 Cody Barney
2018 Phillip Ruban
William Jesse Coulter Award in Mineral and Energy Economics
Established by the Viola Vestal Coulter Foundation, the foundation was established in 1938 in honor of Viola by her husband, William J. Coulter. The Coulters moved widely to work at mines throughout the US, spending many years in Colorado. In 1968, the Coulter Foundation provided funds to the Colorado School of Mines to support the William J. Coulter chair in Mineral Economics and related support to Mineral and Energy Economics.
The fund supports an annual award recognizing academic achievement in Mineral and Energy Economics.
2025 Patrick Mather – MS in Mineral and Energy Economics, Maxwell Fleming – PhD in Mineral and Energy Economics
2024 Alex Gebben – PhD in Mineral and Energy Economics
2024 Jordan Ida – MS in Mineral and Energy Economics
2023 Sankalp Garg – MS in Mineral and Energy Economics
2022 Adam Fuller – MS in Mineral and Energy Economics
2021 Emilio Castillo – PhD in Mineral and Energy Economics
2020 Ashlyn Hohenshelt – MS in Mineral and Energy Economics
2019 Scott Nicholson – MS in Mineral and Energy Economics
2019 Su-Ki Lee – PhD in Mineral and Energy Economics
Jerome and Rebecca Broussard Family Award in Engineering and Technology Management
The Broussard Award recognizes and rewards academic excellence in the Engineering and Technology Management Degree Program.
2025 Colby Frias Davian Sandoval
2024 Matthew Blackburne, Jordan Emery, Michael Haas, Hunter Sitki
2023 Megan Van De Graaf
2022 Alejandro Rojas
2021 Sophia Becker
2021 Olivia Geesen
2020 Henry Hoyt
2020 Caelyn Rittenhouse
2020 Christopher Beebe
2019 Tabitha Kalin
2019 Connor Groeneweg
2018 Katelyn Hesse
2018 Robert LaFaso
Joe Eazor Award in Engineering and Technology Management
This award was established to recognize ETM students whose contribution to the program was above and beyond the normal
2025 Wesley Swieter, Jocelyn Holman, Alexander Shaw
2024 Jalen Thomas, Line Audrey Nkule Sonkeng
2023 Samantha Van Sickle
2022 Andrew Leach, Brooke Deans
2021 Kelly McKenney
2021 Amanda Field
2021 John Reiley
2019 James Bloomfield
2019 Maarten de Zeeuw
2019 Lauren Harrison
2019 Eric Uhl
2019 James Beetham
William Jesse Coulter Award in Economics
Established by the Viola Vestal Coulter Foundation, the foundation was established in 1938 in honor of Viola by her husband, William J. Coulter. The Coulters moved widely to work at mines throughout the US, spending many years in Colorado. In 1968, the Coulter Foundation provided funds to the Colorado School of Mines to support the William J. Coulter chair in Mineral Economics and related support to Mineral and Energy Economics.
The Coulter award recognized academic achievement in Economics.
2024 Alex Gebben
2023 Sultan Alsuwaidi
2022 William McBride
2021 Marie Sullivan
2020 Nicholas Capra
2019 Alexander Adams