AES Faculty Member, Dr. Dan Scheeres, named University of Colorado Distinguished Professor
On November 21, 2014, six University of Colorado faculty members were named Distinguished Professors, the most prestigious honor for faculty at the university. CU President Bruce D. Benson reviewed nominations from CU’s campuses; with the recommendation of a committee of Distinguished Professors, he forwarded the candidates’ names to the Board of Regents, which voted in favor of the nominees today at the board’s meeting at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.
Daniel J. Scheeres, Ph.D., professor and A. Richard Seebass Endowed Chair in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, CU-Boulder. Professor Scheeres is an international leader in astrodynamics and celestial mechanics; he is currently the gravity science team lead for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which focuses on collecting samples from an asteroid and returning them to Earth. Professor Scheeres has published extensively in the fields of astrodynamics, dynamical astronomy and celestial mechanics. He coordinates the Smead Fellows program, supporting outstanding junior faculty and doctoral students in aerospace engineering sciences at CU. A Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the American Astronautical Society, he has an asteroid named in his honor. - See more at: http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2014/11/21/six-faculty-members-join-ranks-university-colorado-distinguished-professors#sthash.BxWuc24T.dpuf