What's Happening: August 28 - 31

What’s Happening

August 28-31, 2012

Student Organizations wishing to submit events to be placed in the What’s Happening simply need to create events in their group’s OrgSync Profile and check the box to request to share with the Community Calendar.

Campus Departments may continue to submit events through the following link:

http://studentactivities.mines.edu/Student-Activities-Event-Submit

Tuesday, August 28

All Day         Fraternity Recruitment Events
Individual House participation and schedule subject to change

6:00 pm       Sorority Recruitment: House Tours (Berthoud Hall 108)

                            Dinner provided, First tour begins at 7:15 pm

Wednesday, August 29

All Day         Fraternity Recruitment Events
Individual House participation and schedule subject to change

6:00 pm       Sorority Recruitment: Chapter Showcase (Berthoud Hall 108)

                             Dinner provided, First tour begins at 7:15 pm

Thursday, August 30

All Day         Fraternity Recruitment Events
Individual House participation and schedule subject to change

6:00 pm       Sorority Recruitment: Philanthropy Night (Berthoud Hall 108)

Must Have Attended at Least One Previous Night (House Tours and/or Chapter Showcase)

First tour begins at 7:15 pm

Friday, August 31

All Day         Fraternity Recruitment Events
Individual House participation and schedule subject to change

10:00 am      Celebration of Mines (Kafadar Commons)

1:00 pm       Women’s Soccer vs. Mont. St.-Billings

6:30 pm       Sorority Recruitment: Preference Night (Berthoud Hall 108)

                            By Invitation Only

7:00 pm       Men’s Soccer vs. St. Edward’s

8:00 pm       Movie: The Avengers (Bunker Auditorium, Green Center)

Sponsored by Mac

In other news, some important information from the Student Activities Office: OrgSync is a one stop shop for getting involved at CSM. It is a portal that allows you to manage all of your student organization involvement in one place. You may search for organizations that interest you and join them by the simple click of a button. OrgSync also allows student organizations a wide variety of applications that will assist in management, participation, and long-term success, such as the ability to manage a budget, create to-do lists, post events to your group calendar or advertise to the public including posting to Facebook, store files, create forms, and host a website. To sign up for an account go to www.orgsync.com, click Register in the top right corner of the page, find Colorado School of Mines and create your personal profile.

If you want to have your club’s Special Event advertised in the What’s Happening, click here and give us your information!

What's Happening? April 20-27

What’s Happening?!

Check out what is happening on campus this week!!

Friday, April 20th

4:00 PM Earth Day Celebration (Stratton Commons)

There will be live music, free food, as well as representatives from companies which make sustainable goods as well as research groups which do research in sustainability and alternative sources of energy.

8:00 PM MAC Movie: Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Bunker)

Saturday, April 21st

10:00 AM The Thaw Festival (Kafadar)

This Saturday, April 21st, the CSM Slackline Club will be hosting its annual slackline festival out on Kafadar Commons! Things will start off with a guided morning yoga warmup and then there will be slacklining all day, with a competition from 1:30-3:00. Following that, there will be live bluegrass provided. Food will also be available.

10:00 AM Ultra Violet Flag Football Tournament (North IM Fields)

Flag Football Tournament and barbecue benefiting the Sigma Kappa Foundation, which supports the Alzheimer’s Association, Inherit the Earth, Scholarships, and other philanthropic causes.


12:00 PM Softball vs. Colorado Mesa (Sports Complex)

Sunday, April 22nd  
10:00 AM Mines 3rd Annual Pi Mile Run (CSM Track)
Registration starts at 9 AM, run starts at 10.


11:00 AM Softball vs. Colorado Mesa (Sports Complex)

Monday, April 23rd
6:30 PM Chile and Argentina Patagonia Winter Break '12 Trip Info Session(Media Room, Rec Center)

Tuesday, April 24th
4:00 PM Audubon/Cimation Information Session (Berthoud 243)
For majors: Chemical Engineering, Civil, Mechanical Engineering; Refreshments will be served.


Wednesday, April 25th
8:30 AM Price Tag Week: Free Donuts and Coffee! (In front of Meyer Hall)
8:30 AM Spring Launch Recruit (Ballrooms)
"Mini career fair" - in the Ballrooms - 20+ employers here to interview for last-minute openings; internships, co-ops, full-time. You may be able to schedule a later in the day interview by coming to this meet/greet event.
10:00 AM Spring Launch Interviews (Ballrooms)
20+ companies interviewing for current positions - internships to full-time. See DiggerNet for schedules, and sign-up. Walk-in appointments also available.
6:30 PM Start/Own your own Energy Company (Ballroom C)
Incredible seminar with CEO of 3 successful NGP companies to share with Mines students the path toward entrepreneurial success in the energy industry. Dinner served - sign up in DiggerNet today!!
6:30 PM Chile and Argentina Patagonia Winter Break '12 Trip Info Session(Media Room, Rec Center)


Thursday, April 26th
4:00 PM Van Tuyl Lecture (Berthoud 241)
The speaker is Dr. Whitey Hagadorn, Tim & Kathryn Ryan Curator of Geology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.  The title of the talk is “Death of a Megapredator”
5:00 PM SM Energy Info Session (Ballroom C)
Majors: Geological, Geophysical, Petroleum; Refreshments will be served - sign up in DiggerNet.
5:30 PM SHPE Fiesta! (Friedhoff Hall)
Homemade Mexican food, Traditional performances including Aztec,Flamenco, and Folklorico dancers. Raffling off prizes throughout the night!






8:00 PM MAC Movie: The Grey (Bunker)








Friday, April 27th
1:00 PM Price Tag Week: Free Lemonade and Cookies! (In front of Meyer Hall)
3:00 PM Baseball vs. Metro State (Sports Complex)
4:30 PM FAC Comedian: Pete Holmes (Friedhoff Hall)

In other news, some important information from the Student Activities Office: OrgSync is a one stop shop for getting involved at CSM. It is a portal that allows you to manage all of your student organization involvement in one place. You may search for organizations that interest you and join them by the simple click of a button. OrgSync also allows student organizations a wide variety of applications that will assist in management, participation, and long-term success, such as the ability to manage a budget, create to-do lists, post events to your group calendar or advertise to the public including posting to Facebook, store files, create forms, and host a website. To sign up for an account go to www.orgsync.com, click Register in the top right corner of the page, find Colorado School of Mines and create your personal profile.

If you want to have your club’s Special Event advertised in the What’s Happening, click here and give us your information!

What's Happening: April 13-20

What’s Happening?!

Check out what is happening on campus this week!!

Friday, April 13th

11:00 AM Up 'Til Dawn Finale (Kafadar Commons)
Up 'Til Dawn would like to thank everyone who helped raise $13,000 for St. Jude's Hospital! As a thank you, they will be handing out snow cones from 11 AM to 2 PM on Kafadar!

4:30 PM FAC Comedian: Ali Wong 



7:30 PM Mines Little Theater: Urinetown the Musical (Metals Hall)
A satirical musical comedy. Only $3 a ticket!

7:30 PM WAM Concert: Regret Night (IM Fields)

Saturday, April 14th

Kayaking Festival! (Clear Creek Kayaking Park)
Come out Saturday to enjoy some Boating, Burritos, and Beer! We will be having a boatercross event in the morning, a cleanup event, and a ducky race. In the evening, we will be showing Kadoma and Frontier. The movie ticket includes a Qdoba burrito as well!

10:00AM – Start Check-in for Boatercross
10:45AM—Saftey speech 
11:15AM—Girls Boatercross Race Starts
12:00 PM—Guys Boatercross Race Starts
1:00PM – Cleanup Competition
2:30PM— Ducky Race and Cleanup Judging 
7:00PM—Doors open for movie


5:30 PM CSM Space Society: Yuri Night (Berthoud 241)

Yuri's Night is an event celebrated around the world, a celebration of all man has done in space since Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, 51 years ago! Come watch Apollo 13, and get Free Qdoba and cupcakes!

7:00 PM Contra Dance (Friedhoff Hall)
Only CSM Contra Dance of the semester
Live band: Gypsy Caravan
Caller: Pat Tognoni
$3 Admissions
No experience or partner needed (If you can walk, you can dance.)
Refreshments provided


7:30 PM Mines Little Theater: Urinetown the Musical (Metals Hall)
A satirical musical comedy. Only $3 a ticket!
Sunday, April 15th  
12:00 Absolutely Incredible Kid Day Carnival (IM Fields)

Come celebrate the Kids in your life! Carnival includes slacklining, liquid nitrogen icecream, firefighters and so much more!!

All proceed from the donation bake sale will go the the Great American Bake Sale and their fight against childhood hunger in America. We've even got gluten and dairy free goods so no kid will be left out.

Help us celebrate Absolutely Incredible Kids and spoil those in your life for FREE.

Monday, April 16th

Tuesday, April 17th
Tax Day!
Wednesday, April 18th
6:30 PM Chile and Argentina Patagonia Winter Break '12 Trip Info Session (Media Room, Rec Center)
Thursday, April 19th
4:00 PM Van Tuyl Lecture (Berthoud 241)
The speaker will be Dr. Carol Cleland – Dept. of Philosophy, Center for Astrobiology, University of Colorado at Boulder.  The title of the talk is “Common Cause Explanation and the Search for a Smoking Gun”.


6:30 PM Chile and Argentina Patagonia Winter Break '12 Trip Info Session (McNeil Room, Rec Center)
Friday, April 20th
4:00 PM Earth Day Celebration (Stratton Commons)
There will be live music, free food, as well as representatives from companies which make sustainable goods as well as research groups which do research in sustainability and alternative sources of energy.


8:00 PM MAC Movie: TBA

In other news, some important information from the Student Activities Office: OrgSync is a one stop shop for getting involved at CSM. It is a portal that allows you to manage all of your student organization involvement in one place. You may search for organizations that interest you and join them by the simple click of a button. OrgSync also allows student organizations a wide variety of applications that will assist in management, participation, and long-term success, such as the ability to manage a budget, create to-do lists, post events to your group calendar or advertise to the public including posting to Facebook, store files, create forms, and host a website. To sign up for an account go to www.orgsync.com, click Register in the top right corner of the page, find Colorado School of Mines and create your personal profile.

If you want to have your club’s Special Event advertised in the What’s Happening, click here and give us your information!

What's Happening: April 6-13

What’s Happening?!

Check out what is happening on campus this week!!

Friday, April 6th

12:00 PM  Inaugural Art in Science and Technology (ArtiST) Literary Journal Competition - Poetry Event (Boettcher Room, Arthur Lakes Library)

As part of the inaugural Art in Science and Technology (ArtiST) literary journal competition and conference hosted by CSM on April 5th-7th, readers will present work from five university journals:  Ink (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology), Signatures (Rochester Institute of Technology), Erato (Georgia Tech), Rune (MIT) and High Grade (CSM). Please join the celebration as we honor poets, writers, artists, scientists and engineers participating in the literary arts. Brown bag lunches are welcome and cold beverages will be provided.  For more information on the ArtiST Conference, please visit http://highgrade.mines.edu/ArtiST

12:00 PM  Exponent Information Session (Hill Hall 202)

Exponent is a leading engineering and scientific consulting firm. Our multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, physicians, and regulatory consultants brings together more than 90 different disciplines to solve complicated problems facing corporations, insurers, government entities, associations and individuals. Our more than 900 staff members work in 25 offices across the United States and abroad. Exponent has approximately 600 consultants, including more than 350 that have earned a doctorate in their chosen field of specialization. Targeting PhDs and M.S. students in MME, Materials Science, and Mechanical Engineering, 2010 Mines MME Alum Alexander Hudg! ins will be presenting. Food and drink will be provided. Sign up in DiggerNet under Info Sessions and Career Events.

12:00 PM Softball vs. Regis University (Stermole Sports Complex)
2:00 PM Softball vs. Regis University (Stermole Sports Complex)
3:00 PM Baseball vs. Regis University (Stermole Sports Complex)


4:00 PM Cookies @ Coolbaugh (Coolbaugh House)
Join us on Friday, April 6 from 4-5 PM at Coolbaugh House for complimentary cookies and beverages. All students welcome!


6:00 PM Baseball vs. Regis University (Stermole Sports Complex)


7:30 PM Mines Little Theater: Urinetown the Musical (Metals Hall)
A satirical musical comedy. Only $3 a ticket!


8:00 PM MAC Movie: Hugo (Bunker Auditorium)

Saturday, April 7th
11:00 PM Softball vs. Regis University (Stermole Sports Complex)
12:00 PM Baseball vs. Regis University (Stermole Sports Complex)
1:00 PM Softball vs. Regis University (Stermole Sports Complex)



7:30 PM Mines Little Theater: Urinetown the Musical (Metals Hall)
A satirical musical comedy. Only $3 a ticket!


1:00 PM Holi: Indian Festival of Colors (Parking Lot D)
Experience the great Indian culture! Indian Students' Association invites you to come out and enjoy the festival of colors. Splash color and water, throw water balloons, dance to bollywood music and enjoy Indian snacks. Warning: your clothes will get covered in colors!



Sunday, April 8th  Happy Easter!

Monday, April 9th

Tuesday, April 10th


Wednesday, April 11th


All Day: Spring 2012 Virtual Career Fair
Dozens of companies have already registered for the Virtual Career Fair because they have full-time and/or internship openings! Get full details on DiggerNet. Many of these companies will come to campus for interviews on April 25rh.


Thursday, April 12th
10:00 AM Introduction to COMSOL Multiphysics
This free event is open to anyone interested in multiphysics modeling. We will offer a live demo, a quick tour of the software, and a hands-on tutorial. To register visit: http://www.comsol.com/events/cmw/20359/

Friday, April 13th

11:00 AM Up 'Til Dawn Finale (Kafadar Commons)
Up 'Til Dawn would like to thank everyone who helped raise $13,000 for St. Jude's Hospital! As a thank you, they will be handing out snow cones from 11 AM to 2 PM on Kafadar!

4:30 PM FAC Comedian: Ali Wong 



7:30 PM Mines Little Theater: Urinetown the Musical (Metals Hall)
A satirical musical comedy. Only $3 a ticket!

In other news, some important information from the Student Activities Office: OrgSync is a one stop shop for getting involved at CSM. It is a portal that allows you to manage all of your student organization involvement in one place. You may search for organizations that interest you and join them by the simple click of a button. OrgSync also allows student organizations a wide variety of applications that will assist in management, participation, and long-term success, such as the ability to manage a budget, create to-do lists, post events to your group calendar or advertise to the public including posting to Facebook, store files, create forms, and host a website. To sign up for an account go to www.orgsync.com, click Register in the top right corner of the page, find Colorado School of Mines and create your personal profile.

If you want to have your club’s Special Event advertised in the What’s Happening, click here and give us your information!