Smead Aerospace Student News - June 24
Honors and Recognition
Chasing hail: Researchers fly drones into storms as part of largest U.S. hail study in 40 years
Gray clouds swirl above a dusty highway in eastern Colorado between the towns of Akron and Atwood—what’s left of a thunderstorm that rolled through this stretch of prairie and rangeland just minutes before. Wind whistles through patches of stubbly grass nearby. Then a hiss and a pop break the silenc...
PhD student earns prestigious 2025 Draper Fellowship
Nicole Rote has earned a major fellowship from Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Draper Laboratories. Rote, a PhD student in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been named a 2025 Draper Scholar. Scholars in the program receive...
Rawte earns phononics Best Poster Award
Silicon Flatirons to Host Inaugural Space and Spectrum Policy Conference
In theory, space is infinite. In practice, it is not.Practical and physical limitations of the space environment are now evident as stakeholders wish to use resources in space. As barriers to entry in space continue to fall, and resource conflicts emerge, this begs the question: what is the correct...