Jeff Zehnder
The sounds of construction permeate the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building at the University of Colorado Boulder. The bang of hammers. The wail of electric saws. A new laboratory for a plasma wind tunnel is taking shape. The project is the vision of...
Luis Navarro is pushing the forefront of research in Earth’s extreme upper atmosphere to answer important and complex scientific questions. Navarro, a research scientist in the Space Weather Technology, Research and Education Center (SWx TREC) at the University of Colorado Boulder, has earned a four-year, $700,000 NASA Heliophysics grant to...
Yang Wang is leading a unique study harnessing satellite data to study how solar activity affects a poorly understood region of Earth’s upper atmosphere. Wang, a visiting faculty member in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and a 2021 graduate of CU Boulder’s aerospace PhD program, has earned a...
Five University of Colorado Boulder aerospace PhD students have earned prestigious 2023 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowships. Saikiran Chikine, Conor Rowan, Kian Shakerin, Michael Sola, and James Walker are each
Hanspeter Schaub has a passion for exploring the unknown—peering into uncharted areas of aerospace to push the boundaries of science and engineering. As a professor and chair of the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences
Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences hosted a spring graduation ceremony for the Class of 2023 on May 12, 2023.
Congratulations to the Smead Aerospace Class of 2023! As part of our annual graduation ceremonies, we are recognizing outstanding students and teams for special achievements. These honors were announced during a reception May 11.
Cole Kenny is focused on an unusual place for an aerospace engineer: underground. A PhD student in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, Kenny is applying lessons he...
Allie Anderson and Torin Clark at CU Boulder are conducting research into how humans and artificial intelligence systems work together.The pair are part of a multi-university research team commissioned by the Air Force Office of
The National Science Foundation has bestowed eight prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards to University of Colorado Boulder aerospace graduate students.These top awards recognize and support outstanding grad students from