The team.

All-woman engineering team earns Most Innovative Award at NASA Mars competition

May 30, 2019

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

All-woman engineering team heads to NASA Mars competition

April 18, 2019

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

CU Boulder lands a slot on first Orion flight around the moon

March 4, 2019

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

From there to here: a nontraditional path to an aerospace career

Jan. 8, 2019

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 aerospace engineer, is newly married, has left a legacy...

An astronaut on a spacewalk.

Students designing augmented reality system for astronauts

Dec. 20, 2018

NASA is turning to university students for help with the next big space technology 鈥 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 Students (SUITS) 2019 challenge. The mission? To develop an...

Austin Riley at Machu Picchu

Outstanding Graduate for International Engagement: Austin Riley

Dec. 18, 2018

鈥淲e underestimate the power engineering has to help people,鈥 Riley said. 鈥淲e have this amazing almost superpower to help around the world, and many students don鈥檛 even know it. CU Boulder has shown me that potential."

A group photo of the OSIRIS-REx team who are U Boulder alumni.

Space probe scoops up CU Boulder graduates

Dec. 3, 2018

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鈥檚 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.

Students at Ball Career Day

Students get inside look at Ball Corp. through first-ever Career Day with CU Boulder

Sept. 26, 2018

As the first-ever Ball Career Day wound to a close at the University of Colorado Boulder, sophomore aerospace major Erik Stolz was nearly bowled over with excitement.

Aerospace night

Football + Aerospace. One Night Only at Folsom Field.

Sept. 18, 2018

CU Boulder is celebrating a special Aerospace Night at Folsom Field under the Friday night lights as the Buffs take on UCLA on September 28th. Discounted tickets start at $30.

Heather Hava and Katya Arquilla

Two CU Aerospace students earn Women Forward in Technology Scholarships

Sept. 4, 2018

Congratulations to University of Colorado Boulder aerospace graduate students Katya Arquilla and Heather Hava for being awarded 2018 Women Forward in Technology Scholarships! Nine women were recognized nationwide, with CU Boulder and MIT being the only universities with multiple honorees. Arquilla also received the scholarship in 2017, making her a...

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