Jeff Zehnder

Science, engineering and nature are coming together for Colorado high school students at a unique summer camp. The 2019 CU Science Discovery Mountain Research Experience, a weeklong sleepaway camp program is a chance for kids to learn about the possibilities of scientific...

Luis Zea is investigating the possibility of mining metals from asteroids in space using an unlikely agent: bacteria. It may sound like science fiction, but so-called biomining is already a reality on Earth. Now, Zea, and his co-investigator Jesse

Jeff Forbes is working on a research project slated for the International Space Station (ISS) to help us better understand and forecast conditions on the edge of space. NASA is funding the Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) to analyze gravity (or “buoyancy”) waves in a region of the upper atmosphere that can cause disruptions in...

The top researchers in the field of hypersonics have wrapped up a week-long conference highlighting the latest developments in the subject. The 2019 Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics Portfolios Review, sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific

John Mah has earned two teaching awards in the past two months, and reading comments from his students, it’s not hard to see why. “He taught with such enthusiasm and expertise that even the most uninterested student would listen.” – Grace Edwards “

NASA has presented a University of Colorado Boulder team with the 2019 Most Innovative Award for their project in the space agency's BIG Idea Challenge. CU Boulder was a finalist at the event, which was held April 23-24 in Hampton, Virginia. The

Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences is moving! After 18 months of construction, the department will vacate all of its space in the Engineering Center this summer and move to a brand new, dedicated building for the aerospace department on East Campus. The new facility is...

Five Smead Aerospace graduate students are receiving special recognition for their contributions to research and teaching. The 2019 John A. Vise award is presented annually to two Aerospace PhD students for demonstrated excellence in academics,

Jay McMahon has earned a NASA early career fellowship to help ensure future missions to Mars can land safely. McMahon, an assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado

Master's and PhD students in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences are being recognized for earning 2019 NASA Space and Technology Research Fellowships (NSTRF). The program which sponsors U.S. citizen and permanent