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== About Corey ==
Corey Brugh is senior Chemical and Biochemical Engineering student at the Colorado School of Mines. Born and raised in Austin, Texas, Corey has always shown a strong interest in technology and business. After graduating from LC Anderson High School in 2004, Corey began his career in the restaurant industry. For almost a decade, Corey managed restaurants in Austin, Kansas City, Waco, Raleigh and San Antonio. In the final year of his restaurant career, Corey was a full time engineering student at the Alamo Colleges in San Antonio, Texas. Corey spent one more year in San Antonio at the Alamo Colleges and the University of Texas at San Antonio prior to transferring to the Colorado School of Mines.
Corey chose to finish his BS in Chemical Engineering at Mines because he was planning on simultaneously opening his own restaurant/wine bar with his father whom lives in Denver. As the plans to start his own business were put on hold, Corey aggressively pursued his goals of academic excellence, obtaining an internship with an industry leader, and obtaining a position on campus performing independent research.
Corey is currently researching researched the rheological effects of ionic liquids on polyelectrolyte solutions. During the summer summers of 2014and 2015, Corey worked in Upstream Packaging Process (R&D) for P&G and is returning for the summer of 2015. For the 2014-15 was a Resident Assistant in Weaver Towers and will be returning returned for the 2015-16 year as the RA of the Engineering Grand Challenges Theme Learning Community.
After his first semester at Mines, Corey looked for his own unique way of making a meaningful contribution which led him to applying to become the [http://minesnewsroom.com/news/first-mines-student-named-university-innovation-fellow first University Innovation Fellow for the Colorado School of Mines].
Because of Corey's work on the Grand Challenges at Mines, Corey was invited to attend the 2015 Global Grand Challenges Summit in Beijing.
== Work as a University Innovation Fellow ==