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  • Collage of the three winners.
    Congratulations to the winners of the 5th Annual Researchpalooza! The one-day summit featured a series of 10-minute lightning presentations by students and faculty on their research. Missed the event? Videos of the talks are available to watch,
  • 2019 Brooke Owens fellows collage.
    A record setting number of «Ƶ students have earned Brooke Owens Fellowships. The highly competitive program provides paid internships and mentoring to exceptional undergraduate women seeking careers in aviation or space
  • Xinzhao Chu with a group of students in Antarctica.
    New research by Xinzhao Chu, a professor of Smead Aerospace and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, and her team shows gravity waves above Antarctica exhibit seasonal patterns that peak in winter, which could help
  • Hanspeter Schaub
    «Ƶ Smead Aerospace Professor Hanspeter Schaub has been elected a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). The honor is in recognition of notable and valuable contributions to the arts, sciences or technology of aeronautics and astronautics. Schaub is a prolific...
  • Mark Moretto and Ryan Blay
    «Ƶ aerospace graduate students Ryan Blay and Mark Moretto have been announced as 2019 recipients of the Aviation Week Network “Tomorrow’s Technology Leaders: The 20 Twenties" honors. The program, a collaboration of
  • Researchpalooza 2019
    Smead Aerospace presents: The 5th Annual Researchpalooza. Friday, Feb. 1. 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Discovery Learning Center (DLC).
  • A student placing a wreath.
    The annual memorial event will take place on campus at 9:39 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, to honor the astronauts who perished in the Challenger and Columbia disasters. The event will begin in front of the Regent Administrative Center. Air
  • New Venture Challenge Logo.
    The CU «Ƶ New Venture Challenge is recruiting participants for its 11th annual competition, offering mentoring and resources for budding entrepreneurs and more than $200,000 for campus startups to make their ideas a reality. The program trains
  • The 2019 Hyperloop team.
    Hyperloop is a conceptual transportation technology first proposed by Elon Musk in 2012. Potentially capable of speeds up to 760 mph, the concept could enable traveling across the United States – and other places around the world – in a
  • X-15 plane
    “Boost-glide,” the method of using rocket pro­pulsion to achieve high speed before an un­powered glide, is an apt metaphor for U.S. investment in hypersonics research and education. Recent interviews with government leaders and experts suggest that the U.S. no longer has the luxury of exploring hyperson­ic flight as an unchallenged...
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