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