Adjunct Prof. Luke Danielson Elected to the Prestigious Mining & Metallurgical Society of America

University of Denver Sturm College of Law Adjunct Prof. Luke Danielson has been elected a member of the Mining & Metallurgical Society of America. The Society is a professional organization dedicated to increasing public awareness and understanding about mining and why mined materials are essential to modern society and human well being.

Prof. Danielson attended the Society's "invitation only" Feb. 4 symposium entitled "Minerals for a Green Society," which focused on the challenges in finding and producing the minerals that will be needed for a transition to wind, solar, and other renewable energy technologies as well as potential geopolitical issues created by economic competition for access to the commodities required for green technologies.

At the symposium, Prof. Danielson chaired the Society's round table discussion on strategic minerals and vulnerability, mineral needs for the future, long term planning, and policy issues in developing material basis for the renewable energy transition.

Prof. Danielson, a Gunnison, Colorado attorney, and Cecilia Dalupan, Associate Director of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, are the lead professors in a cutting-edge series of courses that have just be launched by the College of Law. The "Sustainable Natural Resources Development Series" is made up of three one-week short courses. The next course, which is open to all law students as well as graduate students and professionals of all backgrounds, will be held June 2-5. More information about the series can be obtained by clicking here.