Jeff Zehnder

  • John Mah
    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
  • The team.
    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
  • The new aerospace buildng.
    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...
  • Collage of the five winners.
    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
    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
  • Collage of the six winners.
    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
  • Martian landscape with habitat rendering
    Watch the Competition Live 2019 BIG Idea Challenge Streaming Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:15 AM - 2:00 PM (MST) CU Boulder will present 12:05 PM - 12:55 PM (MST) Stream Live Tuesday
  • Lightning strikes the Earth viewed from space.
    A lightning strike releases an incredible amount of energy, most of it felt on Earth’s surface, but some of that energy travels up, far above the clouds and into space, and a new satellite is being designed by the University of Colorado Boulder to map the phenomenon. Professor Bob Marshall has received a four-year, $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant to develop...
  • Orion EM-1
    A little piece of Colorado is going to the moon. When NASA launches Artemis 1, its first mission to orbit the moon since 1972, experiments from the University of Colorado Boulder will be aboard. The space agency has announced a CU Boulder BioServe
  • CSIM CubeSat rendering.
    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
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