Jeff Zehnder
Maryam Shakiba is studying complex composite materials with machine learning to make stronger and lighter aircraft for the Navy. Shakiba is leading a $750,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research, using machine learning techniques to...
Louis Stodieck is stepping back from bioastronautics after nearly five decades at the leading edge of research. A three-time graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder, Stodieck has spent almost...
Callie Wynn is studying medical ailments for astronauts that also have implications for millions of people here on Earth. A second-year aerospace PhD student at the...
Anant Telikicherla is developing new instrumentation for an upcoming sub-orbital rocket flight. Surrounded by racks of electronics equipment, tools, and...
Three aerospace graduate students have earned prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards. Annalise Cabra, Thomas Clark, and Asa O'Neal are 2025 recipients of the NSF GRFP awards, which
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
A team of 13 engineering seniors earned first place in a national aeronautics student paper competition for their capstone design project. Team ASTRA (Astronaut Stability Training Response Apparatus) spent nine months
Congratulations to the Smead Aerospace Class of 2025! As part of our graduation week ceremonies, we are recognizing outstanding students and teams at the undergraduate and graduate level for special achievements.
Aaditya Pore is an engineering senior double majoring in aerospace and computer science. He is an extremely active student, serving as senior class president, competing in the Daniels Fund National Ethics Case Competition and earning the 2025
From training as an Army Ranger and flight test engineer, to life as an astronaut in the microgravity of space, to educating the next generation of...