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Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Alumni News - Summer 2021 Alumni Newsletter

A space capsule reentering the atmosphere.

CU Boulder to lead new $15M NASA Space Tech Research Institute

Researchers at CU Boulder are leading a new $15 million, multi-partner institute with NASA over the next five years to improve entry, descent and landing technologies for exploring other planets.

Penina Axelrad

Axelrad leading the way through positioning, navigation and timing

Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)
Penina Axelrad has built her career pushing the boundaries of GPS technology. As a faculty member in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, she has earned accolades from her peers, served in leadership positions, taught hundreds and hundreds of students, been inducted into the National Academy...
Hunter with the Blue Angels.

A Career on the Aerospace Edge

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Bill Hunter (AeroEng’58) has been on the forefront of technology in rocket engines and spacecraft, shipbuilding, starting multiple business and eventually even becoming an artist. Across a 60-year career, he has been a busy guy...
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Five aerospace students earn major National Science Foundation Fellowship

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The National Science Foundation has announced five students from the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences are 2021 recipients of the presitigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Anton Buynovskiy, Gregory Lund, Robert Sasse, Kieran Smith, and Shu-Yu (Michelle) Lin are each recipients of the fellowship, which recognizes outstanding...
Illustration of NASA’s DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency’s (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system.

Building planetary defenses for killer asteroids

Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)
Jay McMahon is joining a groundbreaking NASA mission to test asteroid deflection technology. McMahon, an assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder has been named a participating scientist in the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). DART is the first...
Connor Morency at the NASA Student Launch Competition in Huntsville, AL in 2019

Morency takes off with NDSEG fellowship for hypersonics research

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Connor Morency has landed a major Department of Defense fellowship to advance the frontiers of high-speed flows. A PhD student and Smead Scholar, Morency has earned a 2021 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG), which recognizes...
Aerospace building

Watch the Spring 2021 Aerospace Graduation Ceremony

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The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences would like to congratulate all 2021 bachelor of science, master of science, and doctor of philosophy graduates with this special virtual graduation ceremony in their honor. Although we can't be together to celebrate in person, we are excited for your...
Upcoming Alumni Webinars and Virtual Events

Homecoming Tailgate

Saturday, November 6

The College of Engineering and Applied Science began a new tradition in 2018 with creation of the CU Engineering Homecoming Tailgate. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this tradition was suspended for 2020, but is tentatively schedule to be back in 2021, conditions permitting, on Saturday, November 6 when the Buffs face off against Oregon State during Homecoming Weekend.  Save the Date

 

Additional News

PhD student wins suborbital research launch competition

Raytheon Intelligence & Space gifts $250,000 fellowship endowment

Hypersonics research paving way for Mars exploration, space tourism

Muldrow new director of the Smead Program

CU Boulder leads with 5 Brooke Owens fellows

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