Jeff Zehnder

  • The new building.
    Celebrate with Us!Ribbon Cutting Ceremony August 26, 2019 at 12:30 p.m. 3775 Discovery Dr.RSVP Here The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences has moved into a new
  • Luis Zea and the 16 Psyche asteroid
    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
  • 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. The competition, which changes each year, called for innovative ideas for the design and operation of a Mars greenhouse.
  • Martian landscape with habitat rendering
    A University of Colorado Boulder team is a finalist in a NASA competition to design a greenhouse for use on Mars. The annual NASA BIG Idea Challenge is set for April 23-24 in Hampton, Virginia; it calls on student groups at universities across the country to develop solutions to tough space problems.
  • Orion EM-1
    A little piece of Colorado is going to the moon. When NASA launches Orion EM-1 in 2020, its first mission to orbit the moon since 1972, experiments from the University of Colorado Boulder will be aboard.
  • Kristyn Sample
    Kristyn Sample struggled to find her place after high school. The Columbia, Missouri native was getting by working waitressing jobs around Kansas City, but knew she wanted more.Now 27, Sample has graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder as
  • An astronaut on a spacewalk.
    NASA is turning to university students for help with the next big space technology – augmented reality.The University of Colorado Boulder has been selected by NASA as one of 16 colleges to participate in the Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for
  • Austin Riley at Machu Picchu
    “We underestimate the power engineering has to help people,” Riley said. “We have this amazing almost superpower to help around the world, and many students don’t even know it. CU Boulder has shown me that potential."
  • A group photo of the OSIRIS-REx team who are U Boulder alumni.
    The space probe OSIRIS-REx arrives at the asteroid Bennu today after traveling more than 199 million km (124 million miles) across the blackness of space. It may be far from Earth, but it’s hardly on its own. Guiding it every step of the way has been a team of accomplished scientists and engineers with major University of Colorado Boulder connections.
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