Colorado School of Mines and CoorsTek, both of Golden, announce a nearly $27 million commitment by CoorsTek and the Coors family. Together with a $14.6 million grant from the state of Colorado, the funding enables the construction of the 95,000-ft2 CoorsTek Center for Applied Science and Engineering. This facility will support a broad range of academic and research activities on the Mines campus, and will serve as a focal point for the CoorsTek-Mines research partnership.
The CoorsTek Center will support the College of Applied Science and Engineering and the highly collaborative partnerships between its four departments and two interdisciplinary programs: the Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry, the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, the Department of Physics, the Materials Science Program, and the Nuclear Science and Engineering Program.
Planning for the $45 million CoorsTek Center is now underway. Building features will include flexible laboratories, customizable classrooms for hands-on learning, and centralized teaching and research space. The facility will be located on and around the site of the current physics building, Meyer Hall, at 15th and Arapahoe streets in Golden.
