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Aerospace students earn prestigious Draper Fellowships

Congratulations to eight University of Colorado Boulder aerospace graduate students for being named to the 2018 Draper Fellow Program. The Draper Fellowship provides a unique opportunity for students to benefit from not only immersion in their university’s academic research environment, but also from Draper’s facilities, collective knowledge and experience. The 2018 CU Boulder honorees are among 32 students being recognized nationwide:

  • Aastha Acharya
  • Katya Arquilla
  • Scott Carnahan
  • Jordan Dixon
  • Jonathan Manni
  • Marielle M. Pellegrino
  • Evan Roelke
  • Kirsten Strandjord
  • Anne Theurkauf

Honorees work closely with Draper technical staff to develop state-of-the-art technologies in world-class laboratories, and their scholarly outputs often go beyond top-tier journal papers and conference presentations to include prototypes, testbeds and field implementations. Each Draper Fellow conducts research under the supervision of both a university faculty advisor and a Draper supervisor in an area of mutual interest. CU Boulder is one of only six universities with 2018 winning students.

2018 CU Boulder Fellow Bios