Chu's lidar facility in operation in Antarctica.

$3.3 million grant to advance climate and space weather research from Antarctica

Oct. 8, 2021

It is one of the coldest and most isolated places on Earth, but for a team of scientists and engineers from CU Boulder, it is the ideal location to conduct complex space-atmospheric research: the frozen tundra of Antarctica. Xinzhao Chu has earned a $3.3 million, five-year National Science Foundation grant...

Two students checking the temperature and pressure settings for a rooftop HVAC unit in the Larson Laboratory.

Major research center for green building technology launches at CU Boulder

Sept. 22, 2021

A major research center for sustainable building technology has been founded at the University of Colorado Boulder. The Building Energy Smart Technologies (BEST) Center will advance sustainable building projects ranging from...

Chad Keller

Chad鈥檚 Legacy 鈥 Honoring a 9/11 victim and CU Boulder grad

Sept. 8, 2021

鈥淗e knew from when he was five or six years old that he was going to be launching rockets. His love was always of aerospace.鈥 Chad Keller (AeroEngr鈥93) grew up drawn to math, science, and sports, and had a deep concern for others. A unique scholarship at...

Marcus Holzinger

Holzinger speaks to U.S. Senate on space situational awareness

July 22, 2021

鈥淓xponential commercial utilization of space is simultaneously inspiring and terrifying.鈥 Marcus Holzinger has addressed the U.S. Congress on space situational awareness and space traffic management. It is a subject with increasing importance as more nations and commercial businesses launch satellites into orbit around our planet. Holzinger, an associate professor in...

Students at the Mars Desert Research Station

Planning for life on Mars

June 3, 2021

Shayna Hume and a team of fellow students are trying out life on Mars through a unique Earth-based experience. An aerospace engineering PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder, Hume recently returned from a two-week stay at the Mars Desert Research Station, an...

Joe Siccardi in the Johnson bore of the Eisenhower Johnson Tunnels.

New civil engineering scholarship commemorates Colorado highway engineer

May 21, 2021

Joe Siccardi. You may not know his name, but every Coloradan has seen his work. A 1949 University of Colorado Boulder civil engineering graduate, Siccardi was part of the team of engineers and workers who built the Eisenhower and Johnson Tunnels and the Glenwood...

Bob Marshall

Borrowing Navy submarine radio signals to study space

April 30, 2021

Bob Marshall's research focuses on remote sensing and earth, and space sciences. His project is titled 鈥淨uantifying Radiation Belt Precipitation and Atmospheric Impacts through D-region Ionosphere Imaging.鈥

 Header image: Illustration of NASA鈥檚 DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency鈥檚 (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system.

Building planetary defenses for killer asteroids

April 19, 2021

Jay McMahon is joining a groundbreaking NASA mission to test asteroid deflection technology. McMahon, an assistant professor Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been named a participating scientist in the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). DART is the first flight...

Sherri Cook

Finding sustainable solutions to wicked water problems

April 16, 2021

Sherri Cook's research focuses on resource recovery from wastewater, sustainable design, and anaerobic wastewater treatment. Her project is titled 鈥淎n Integrated Research and Education Plan to Navigate Tradeoffs in the Design of Sustainable and Resilient Water Reuse Systems.鈥

脕lvaro Romero-Calvo

PhD student wins suborbital research launch competition

March 5, 2021

脕lvaro Romero-Calvo is sending research up, up and away with Blue Origin. The second-year aerospace PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder has won the 2021 Ken Souza Memorial Student Spaceflight Research Program, sponsored by the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research, earning him a payload slot on...

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