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  • Kelly Winn and Caleb Inglis prepare for competition.
    Engineering students Caleb Inglis (AeroEngr) and Kelly Winn (MechEngr) represented CU Boulder earlier this month at the Lockheed Martin Ethics in Engineering Case Competition in Bethesda, Maryland. After a slow start, the students rallied to secure
  • Annika Rollock
    Aerospace engineering PhD student Annika Rollock is one of 25 individuals nationwide selected for the 2019 Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship Program. The program, now in its second year, offers summer internships and executive mentorship to inspire
  • Visualization of Earth's magnetic field.
    The Earth’s magnetic field is constantly changing, so researchers need constantly updated data to revise the models that guide our navigation systems and help predict weather on Earth. CU researchers Bob Marshall and Svenja Knappe are collaborating
  • A view of the mission operations center for the Kepler Space Telescope, which the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) oversaw from 2009 to 2018. (Credit: LASP)
    “That’s been really cool—to spend my Friday talking to something in deep space,” he said. “There aren’t many people who can say that.” In one of the spacecraft operations centers inside CU Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (
  • CU Boulder Research Scientist Gijs de Boer prepares to launch a DataHawk to collect atmospheric measurements as sea ice is forming in far northern Alaska.
    CU Boulder researchers will fly drones this fall as part of a massive expedition to the Arctic to study climate at the top of the world. The research is part of the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate expedition -
  • Penina Axelrad
    The National Academy of Engineering has elected Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences professor Penina Axelrad and alumnus Dereje Agonafer (AeroEngr ’72) as new members in 2019. Election to the prestigious academy is among the highest
  • Collage of the three winners.
    Congratulations to the winners of the 5th Annual Researchpalooza! The one-day summit featured a series of 10-minute lightning presentations by students and faculty on their research. Missed the event? Videos of the talks are available to watch,
  • 2019 Brooke Owens fellows collage.
    A record setting number of University of Colorado Boulder students have earned Brooke Owens Fellowships. The highly competitive program provides paid internships and mentoring to exceptional undergraduate women seeking careers in aviation or space
  • Xinzhao Chu with a group of students in Antarctica.
    New research by Xinzhao Chu, a professor of Smead Aerospace and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, and her team shows gravity waves above Antarctica exhibit seasonal patterns that peak in winter, which could help
  • Hanspeter Schaub
    University of Colorado Boulder Smead Aerospace Professor Hanspeter Schaub has been elected a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). The honor is in recognition of notable and valuable contributions to the arts, sciences or technology of aeronautics and astronautics. Schaub is a prolific...
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