The robot.

CU Boulder team takes home $500,000 in international underground robotics competition

Oct. 1, 2021

A CU Boulder team has taken home third place and $500,000 in prize money in an international competition that sends teams of robots deep underground to conduct search-and-rescue operations. The CU Boulder group, made up of engineers from across the university, took part in the final event of the Defense...

Xinlin Li

Xinlin Li elected a 2021 AGU Fellow

Sept. 30, 2021

Xinlin Li, a researcher at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) and a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (AES) at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). He is one of 59 individuals worldwide selected in...

The GPS IIIF mockup.

Lockheed Martin satellite mockup dedicated in Aerospace Building

Sept. 28, 2021

A special 1/3 scale GPS IIIF satellite mockup built by Lockheed Martin has been dedicated in the University of Colorado Boulder Aerospace Building. CU Boulder and Lockheed Martin officials held a ceremony Friday, Sept. 24 to mark the installation of the satellite, which is...

CU Hyperloop team members stand around their boring machine at a test site in Las Vegas.

Students break new ground in Hyperloop challenge

Sept. 27, 2021

Imagine living in a city in the distant (or maybe not-so-distant) future: You need to make an appointment across town, so you step into a pod in an underground tunnel. From there, you’re whizzed at breakneck speeds through a series of twisting and turning tubes that stretch below the city...

Vanessa Aponte

Aponte earns CU Boulder alumni honor

Sept. 20, 2021

Vanessa Aponte’s career is out of this world — quite literally. A systems engineer focused on human spaceflight and landing systems, she has spent the past two decades pursuing humanity’s final frontier. Originally from Puerto Rico, Aponte first came to CU in 1996 as part of the Summer Multicultural Access...

Lindsay Kirk

Kirk looks to give back to CU Boulder through new NASA envoy program

Sept. 15, 2021

Lindsay Kirk (AeroEngr’08) fully realizes her day job at NASA’s Johnson Space Center as part of the Commercial Crew Program is a special one. It’s a high-profile post that has her working closely with Boeing and SpaceX, overseeing their aerothermal environment development for use in entry and aborts to make...

Chad Keller

Chad’s Legacy – Honoring a 9/11 victim and CU Boulder grad

Sept. 8, 2021

“He knew from when he was five or six years old that he was going to be launching rockets. His love was always of aerospace.” Chad Keller (AeroEngr’93) grew up drawn to math, science, and sports, and had a deep concern for others. A unique scholarship at the University of...

NASA Logo

Four CU Boulder aerospace students earn major NASA awards

Sept. 1, 2021

Four University of Colorado Boulder aerospace graduate students have been named 2021 Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST). Daniel da Silva, Sarah Luettgen, Riley Reid, and Kevin Sacca have each earned the grants, which provide up to $45,000 annually for three years for tuition and...

Space Symposim rendering of future space travel.

LASP and CU Boulder showcase expertise at the 36th Space Symposium

Aug. 30, 2021

This week leaders from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and other University of Colorado Boulder affiliates participated in the 36 th Space Symposium. This international meeting, held each year in Colorado Springs, Colo., brings together thousands of participants from the civil, commercial, and national security sectors of space...

The Aerospace Building

Welcoming three new faculty to Smead Aerospace

Aug. 24, 2021

The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder is welcoming three new faculty members. Meet the team and see why we're so excited about these talented new hires:

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