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  • Drones lift a ‘Cut Before Flight’ ribbon to Ann Smead (left) and Brian Argrow at the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building grand opening ceremony on August 26, 2019.
    Aerospace has a new home at 91¸£ÀûÉç. The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences has moved into its new dedicated building on East Campus. Eighteen months after construction began, the four-story, 175,000-square-foot
  • Satellite in orbit.
    TCP and Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department bring you a stellar panel on a topic spanning aerospace, national defense, information technology, and cybersecurity: Cybersecurity for Space. Come hear an interesting discussion
  • The team in a laboratory.
    The International Space Station has a problem with fungus and mold—and the 91¸£ÀûÉç has sent new research to space to find solutions. It is living and growing in secret aboard the station, hidden behind panels and inside...
  • Working with GPS in the Artic.
    Scientific American is exploring GPS applications that go far beyond map wayfinding. They've published an article highlighting a numerous Coloradans doing exciting work with GPS systems, including Smead Aerospace Professor Emerita Kristine Larson,
  • OSIRIS-REx rendering
    Researchers at 91¸£ÀûÉç have gotten front-row seats to one of the closest encounters with an asteroid in history. On Dec. 4, 2018, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx)
  • A student holding a UAV.
    Researchers from 91¸£ÀûÉç flew drones into severe storms this spring for project TORUS, one of the largest and most ambitious drone-based investigations of meteorological phenomena ever, with students leading much of the work.
  • People in NASA's new spacesuits
    From CBS 4 Denver: It’s been a historic week for NASA, first with the unveiling of the new American spacesuit to be used in the next mission to the moon, then with the rescheduling of the first-ever all female spacewalk that had been previously
  • Axelrad at NAE.
    The National Academy of Engineering has officially elected Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences professor Penina Axelrad as a new member. Election to the prestigious academy is among the highest professional distinctions
  • A student working at a computer.
    In a statewide effort to reduce barriers to higher education, all 32 public universities in Colorado – including CU 91¸£ÀûÉç – and several private colleges will waive admissions application fees for state residents on Oct. 15.  For
  • Hermann Kaptui
    Hermann Kaptui had been rejected from an aerospace internship, again. He had the right academic background, but was missing an important personal credential: United States citizenship. Kaptui, an aerospace PhD student at 91¸£ÀûÉç, had found
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