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- A commercial cargo spacecraft bound for the International Space Station has been named after fallen NASA astronaut and Â鶹¹ÙÍø graduate Kalpana Chawla. Northrop Grumman has announced that its next Cygnus capsule will be named
- Smead Aerospace hosted a Virtual Town Hall on inclusive culture in the department on Friday, August 28. The discussion and Q&A focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion featured a panel of speakers, including: Assistant Dean for Access,
- Roger McNamara (MAeroEngr’86, PhD’95) has built a career advancing the forefront of aerospace technology and is serving in a leading role on the next-generation Orion crewed space capsule. As a master’s and PhD alumnus of the University of Colorado
- Friday, August 28, 12:30-1:30 pm, RSVP on Zoom. A discussion and Q&A on diversity, equity, and inclusion in Smead Aerospace...
- The Rocky Mountain Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is recognizing two Â鶹¹ÙÍø aerospace faculty members with 2020 awards. Assistant Professor Allie Anderson is being honored as Young
- CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø-led team is first to observe new equatorial wind patterns in Antarctica, revealing new connections in global circulation. A CIRES-led team has uncovered a critical connection between winds at Earth’s equator and atmospheric waves 6,000
- Jaylon McGhee is researching next-generation wind turbine designs through a prestigious federal fellowship. A second-year aerospace PhD student, McGhee has earned a 2020 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a distinguished award that provides...
- Three Â鶹¹ÙÍø aerospace PhD students have earned prestigious 2020 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowships. Adam Christopherson, Luke Peterson and Samantha Sheppard are being awarded the
- Professor Emeritus Jean Koster has published an ASME Blog on the importance of capstone design projects for student career development: "Many industries offer internships to students during semester breaks, largely after the sophomore and junior
- Life is returning to some semblance of normal for students in Assistant Professor Torin Clark’s laboratory on campus. A faculty member in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, his team’s research focuses on astronaut health on...