Office of Global Initiatives and Business Development
Connecting Mines with partners around the world
Office of
Global Initiatives and Business Development
Connecting Mines with partners around the world
Mines supports the world’s need for economic prosperity through scientists and engineers who create knowledge and deliver solutions.
Welcome to the Office of Global Initiatives and Business Development. We support a wide range of projects that include leadership for some of society’s most pressing problems, technical and policy capacity building in the developing world, educational partnerships, continuing professional education, and conference services for a wide range of topics. We work closely with Mines’ Academic Affairs and Office of Research and Technology Transfer to build and manage projects and partnerships.
Our mission is to work with partners to create the opportunities needed to realize their personal, corporate, or government visions. If you are interested in partnering with one of the world’s best science and engineering universities to develop your project, please contact us for a discussion of the possibilities.
Our Strategic Priorities
Increasing prosperity and quality of life globally through science and engineering
Creating opportunities for students to build cultural and technical understanding through global exploration
Building partnerships to advance the frontiers of technical innovation and entrepreneurship
Advocating for a scientific, data-driven approach
to solutions for the global energy future.
Where We Are
Leadership
Office of Global Education
David Wright
Assistant Vice President for Global Education
Continuing and Professional Education Services
Melody Francisco
Director
Payne Institute for Public Policy
Morgan Bazilian
Director
Office of Global Initiatives
Will Fleckenstein
Director of Strategic Business Development
Mines Online
Sam Spiegel
Assistant Vice President for Online Education
Mines: A Global University
News
- Mines alum contributing to transformations in the field…
- Stephanie Kwon wins NSF CAREER Award for research to design new catalytic materials
Kwon’s focus is on bottom-up designing catalysts to increase their effectiveness in converting raw biomass molecules to higher-value fuels and chemicals.- Mines Alumni Board president looks toward building a bright future
Melanie Westergaard ’87 talks about the important role that alumni will play in Mines' future, particularly as the Oredigger community celebrates this milestone year. …- Griffiths elected to UC Berkeley Academy of Distinguished Alumni
D. Vaughan Griffiths, professor and associate head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado School of Mines, has been elected to the University of California Berkeley' …- Michael McGuirk Wins Negative Emissions Scialog Award
Michael McGuirk wins a $50,000 award to explore the possibility of using polyolefin waste for Direct Air Capture - Stephanie Kwon wins NSF CAREER Award for research to design new catalytic materials