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Now through Dec. 1, 2018, we’re waiving application fees for all domestic applicants to our CU Engineering PhD programs. We’re taking this unprecedented step for a few important reasons: To remove one more barrier for qualified applicants. Between GREs, visiting schools and submitting applications, the cost of applying to graduate...

Mark Sirangelo, who just concluded his career as the head of aerospace giant Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Space Systems, is joining the University of Colorado Boulder as an entrepreneur-in-residence beginning this month. Bobby Braun, dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science, announced today that Sirangelo will join CU Boulder...

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...

CU Boulder team led by Xinzhao Chu finds link between gravity waves in the upper and lower Antarctic atmosphere, helping create a clearer picture of global air circulation. Two years after a CIRES and CU Boulder team discovered a previously unknown class of waves rippling continuously through the upper Antarctic...

Colorado's San Luis Valley has long been a hotbed for sightings of strange things in the sky, but this week it is not UFOs that are causing the buzz. Hundreds of drone flights have taken to the skies near Alamosa as part of what is billed as Flight Week, mounted...

Major progress is being made in the construction of a dedicated aerospace building for the University of Colorado Boulder. Work on the approximately 176,000 square-foot building has been underway since the fall. Once completed, the new building will include an indoor flight environment for testing unmanned aerial systems, as well...

NASA's Space Biology Program has selected 15 grant proposals to award across three appendices released under the Research Opportunities and Space Biology (ROSBio) Omnibus. Thirteen of the awards will simulate microgravity on the ground to characterize how biological systems respond to changes in gravity. One of the remaining two awards...

Two experiment payloads designed and built at CU Boulder are scheduled to blast off for the International Space Station in the early hours of June 29. The payloads, which will launch on board the SpaceX Dragon capsule, will support the study of new treatments for cancer and bacteria that can...

A LiDAR technology patented by the University of Colorado Boulder made news this week when ASTRALiTe, the exclusive licensee of the technology, announced the achievement of a major milestone in enhancing its mapping capabilities. The technology, invented in the lab of Jeffrey Thayer, professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at CU...

As a supercell thunderstorm loomed, Eric Frew, an associate professor of aerospace at the University of Colorado Boulder, drove one of the vehicles in a three-vehicle convoy straight toward it. When Frew references "good" weather, he's talking about the roiling clouds that spit hail and spawn tornadoes, not sunny skies...