Smead Aerospace Faculty/Staff News - Aerospace Fac/Staff Newsletter - August 8
Honors and Recognition
Aerospace PhD research proposes better way to keep astronauts breathing in space
Álvaro Romero-Calvo (AeroEngr PhD’22) is proposing a potentially better way to make oxygen for astronauts in space – using magnetism. Romero-Calvo, a recent PhD graduate from the University of Colorado Boulder, is part of an international team...
Evaluating the risks of military anti-satellite lasers
Iain Boyd is exploring the threats posed by a new ground-based laser facility reportedly being built by Russia to interfere with satellites orbiting overhead.
Boyd is the director of the Center for National Security Initiatives at the University of Colorado Boulder and a professor in the Ann and H.J...
Berger quoted in Space.com, Wired articles
PhD student headed to Antarctica to conduct climate research with lasers
Arunima Prakash is preparing to study the upper atmosphere from one of the coldest and most desolate places on Earth: Antarctica. Prakash, an aerospace PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder, is studying polar mesospheric clouds and their...
PhD student honored at Beacon Satellite Symposium
Enjoying "eureka" moments all the way to an aerospace master's
I am from Arvada, Colorado and I've always been interested in math and science, particularly when we see solutions to problems that make so much sense that it's hard to believe they came from a bunch of equations. It's a bit of a...