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Smead Aerospace and CU Boulder's NEST Studio for the Arts invite artists, faculty, or students to submit proposals for the new Aerospace building on East Campus of the University of Colorado Boulder, opening Summer 2019. There are
We’ve all been there: you’re sitting at the movies watching the latest very entertaining Hollywood blockbuster and you stop and think, "Well, wait ... that’s not how it would happen! That’s not realistic." If you have a background in science
In 1948, William Pietenpol, the chair of physics at the University of Colorado, assembled a team of scientists and engineers for an ambitious venture: to launch an Aerobee rocket into the upper reaches of Earth’s atmosphere and collect new
CU Boulder students, faculty, and researchers are building and launching nano satellites for scientific research and to test new space technology. We've worked on 18 unique CubeSats, seven of which have already launched into low Earth orbit. There
Engineering students Caleb Inglis (AeroEngr) and Kelly Winn (MechEngr) represented CU Boulder earlier this month at the Lockheed Martin Ethics in Engineering Case Competition in Bethesda, Maryland. After a slow start, the students rallied to secure
Aerospace engineering PhD student Annika Rollock is one of 25 individuals nationwide selected for the 2019 Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship Program. The program, now in its second year, offers summer internships and executive mentorship to inspire
The Earth’s magnetic field is constantly changing, so researchers need constantly updated data to revise the models that guide our navigation systems and help predict weather on Earth. CU researchers Bob Marshall and Svenja Knappe are collaborating
“That’s been really cool—to spend my Friday talking to something in deep space,” he said. “There aren’t many people who can say that.” In one of the spacecraft operations centers inside CU Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (
CU Boulder researchers will fly drones this fall as part of a massive expedition to the Arctic to study climate at the top of the world. The research is part of the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate expedition -
The National Academy of Engineering has elected Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences professor Penina Axelrad and alumnus Dereje Agonafer (AeroEngr ’72) as new members in 2019. Election to the prestigious academy is among the highest