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The National Science Foundation has awarded five prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships to University of Colorado Boulder Smeed Aerospace graduate students. This top award recognize and supports outstanding graduate students from across the country in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees. Honorees...

University of Colorado Boulder senior design teams have earned high marks at the 2022 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Region V Student Paper competition. Senior design teams from the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences took first and third place in the competition, which was held...

What would you do if the power went out? Our lives are increasingly reliant on technology; our work and our social lives often require access to the internet. Lights, televisions, and refrigerators require electricity to run. These devices, and the power grid as a whole, are subject to a major...

Like many young people across America at the time, Brian Argrow was mesmerized by images beamed back to Earth of American astronauts engaged in the Space Race. He was just a little too young for Mercury but was certainly enraptured by the Gemini and Apollo missions. And he clearly remembers...

Professor Iain Boyd discusses how hypersonic weapons maneuver in a new piece in Air Force Magazine highlighting the dangers posed by weapons that can move at least five times the speed of sound. Boyd, who is also the director of the CU Boulder Center for National Security Initiatives , is...

From 2017 to 2020, students from five different countries traveled to the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at CU Boulder to engage in an ambitious undertaking: to design and build a miniature satellite. Watch the launch of the Indian Space Research Organisation's PSLV-C52 live Feb. 13 Mountain Time...

Research Professor Delores Knipp is interviewed in a new article in the MIT Technology Review about the recent failure of up to 40 satellites launched by SpaceX. The satellites launched with no problems, but trouble struck the following day. The issue? A geomagnetic storm. Knipp is an expect in space...

University of Colorado Boulder Smead Aerospace Entrepreneur-in-Residence Mark Sirangelo has been elected a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). AIAA confers the distinction of Fellow in recognition of notable and valuable contributions to the arts, sciences or technology of aeronautics and astronautics. Sirangelo is specifically being...

Alessandro Verniani has earned a 2022 Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship. An aerospace master's student, Verniani will receive a paid internships and executive mentorship through...

Two University of Colorado Boulder students have earned 2022 Brooke Owens Fellowships. The highly competitive program provides paid internships and mentoring to exceptional undergraduate women seeking careers in aviation or space exploration. Aerospace undergraduates Liza Graybill and Sydney Walthall have been named 2022 winners. The program honors the memory of...