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The Rocky Mountain Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is recognizing two ²ÊÃñ±¦µä aerospace faculty members with 2020 awards. Assistant Professor Allie Anderson is being honored as Young
²ÊÃñ±¦µä-led team is first to observe new equatorial wind patterns in Antarctica, revealing new connections in global circulation. A CIRES-led team has uncovered a critical connection between winds at Earth’s equator and atmospheric waves 6,000
Jaylon McGhee is researching next-generation wind turbine designs through a prestigious federal fellowship. A second-year aerospace PhD student, McGhee has earned a 2020 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a distinguished award that provides...
Three ²ÊÃñ±¦µä aerospace PhD students have earned prestigious 2020 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowships. Adam Christopherson, Luke Peterson and Samantha Sheppard are being awarded the
Professor Emeritus Jean Koster has published an ASME Blog on the importance of capstone design projects for student career development: "Many industries offer internships to students during semester breaks, largely after the sophomore and junior
Life is returning to some semblance of normal for students in Assistant Professor Torin Clark’s laboratory on campus. A faculty member in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, his team’s research focuses on astronaut health on...
Today, the National Science Foundation announced that ²ÊÃñ±¦µä will receive a $25 million award to launch a new quantum science and engineering research center. The new center will be led by physicist Jun Ye and is a partnership with 11 other
A Japanese rocket launched the United Arab Emirates’ first mission to Mars July 19, an orbiter that will study the planet’s weather while demonstrating the country’s growing space capabilities. The H-2A rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan at 5:58 p.m. Eastern. The rocket’s upper stage released the...
This month, researchers from Boulder and beyond will watch live as a slice of space exploration history launches from a pad on the Japanese island of Tanegashima. The Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) is slated to blast off aboard an H-IIA
No single scientist or engineer, no matter how smart, could solve the challenges of controlled, maneuverable flight of an aircraft or returning spacecraft traveling at more than five times the speed of sound. Temperatures on the vehicles can soar