The Mackay School of Mines building has supported earth science education and research for 117 years. This talk will discuss the history of the building, the Mackay School of Earth Science and Engineering, and the Keck Museum. Over 150 years of history will be discussed, including the dawn of industrial mining in Nevada, early mining education at the then Nevada State University, the rise of the Mackay School of Mines, and the future of one of the grand dame earth science programs in the United States.

Garrett Barmore is the Curator at the W. M. Keck Earth Science and Mineral Engineering Museum at the University of Nevada, Reno. Barmore is an alumnus of UNR and received his Master’s in Museology from the University of Washington. Garrett has worked as the curator of the Keck Museum for over 10 years and has given hundreds of presentations and tours about UNR and Nevada’s mining history. The museum’s collection tells the story of mining and earth science education in Nevada.