Articles by Jeff Zehnder

Twenty eight CU Boulder engineering students have earned National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships for 2023. These prestigious awards recognize and support outstanding grad students from across the country in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees and have strong potential to...

Azadeh Bolhari “We’re giving the community access to labs, tools, knowledge and expertise.” Azadeh Bolhari is turning traditional engineering research on its head, opening her lab to the public for input on research. “As engineers, historically we’re trained that we went to engineering school and we’re the experts, but I...

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 Scientific Research to study trust in autonomous systems. It is an important and complex...

Former NASA administrator and astronaut Charles Bolden addressed University of Colorado Boulder students in a special seminar on the past and future of spaceflight and space exploration last week. Bolden served as the leader of NASA from 2009-2017 and flew on four space shuttle missions in the 1980s and 1990s...

Allie Anderson is probing trust in human-robot interactions with a major grant provided to promising early career faculty. Anderson, an assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, has earned a 2023 National Science Foundation CAREER Award. The prestigious...

Hisham Ali is pushing the limits of plasma physics and hypersonics in his lab on campus to advance a nationally important area of science and engineering. Ali studies magnetohydrodynamics – a critical area for hypersonic vehicles...

Professor Scott Palo has been elected a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Palo is the Charles Victor Schelke Endowed Professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and a former associate dean for research in the College of Engineering and Applied...

Shelby Buckley has made the research trip of a lifetime – studying the impacts of climate change up close and personal on a five-week trip to the Arctic aboard the Kronprins Haakon icebreaking ship. It offered a unique chance to personally collect ice core and seawater samples and experience the...

The University of Colorado Boulder has been selected as a United States Space Command Academic Engagement Enterprise member. The new national program is designed to expand collaboration and academic exchanges between universities and U.S. Space Command. “They’re engaging with top universities in the country to have two-way communication; how Space...

Siri Roman (EnvEngr’03) the next leader of the Eagle River Water & Sanitation District When you turn on a faucet, you expect clean water to pour out, but making it happen takes a massive network of pipes, treatment infrastructure, reservoirs and environmental engineers like Siri Roman. As director of operations...