Grad Profile

  • A lidar beam shooting into the sky at night.
    Arunima Prakash is preparing to study the upper atmosphere from one of the coldest and most desolate places on Earth: Antarctica. Prakash, an aerospace PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder, is studying polar mesospheric clouds and their...
  • The Dittman Family
    I came to Boulder, CO for employment with an impactful non-profit that supports earth science research using geodetic data called UNAVCO.If you aren鈥檛 sure what geodesy is, you are not alone, but you definitely depend...
  • Ofer Dagan
    I grew up in southern Israel, on a Kibbutz, a small social community, where I spent my childhood. From a young age I loved solving problems: first simple math, and later, in high school, physics and chemistry. After the army, when I had to choose a field of study, I knew I wanted to be an engineer and I loved airplanes and UAVs...
  • Jenny Horing
    Jenny Horing has been poring over the latest results in her hypersonic flow and material response research, searching for clues in the data to better understand the next frontier in high-speed thermodynamics.Much of the work
  • Katie Melbourne
    Katie Melbourne is up close and personal with the James Webb Space Telescope. As a systems engineer at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Melbourne is involved in commissioning for NASA's new flagship space telescope. At the same time, she is also earning
  • Shayna Hume taking a rock sample.
    鈥淭oday, we woke up on Mars,鈥 Shayna Hume (MAeroEngr鈥20; PhD鈥23) journaled on April 13, 2021. Nestled inside a two-story, 1,200-square-foot cylindrical habitat with five other aerospace specialists, it appeared to be true 鈥 red desert
  • Josh Barrio with his son.
    Josh Barrio had had enough. As an avionics technician in the U.S. Coast Guard, he regularly struggled to keep up with the demanding maintenance schedule for military helicopters. There had to be a better way. 鈥淚 was constantly removing and replacing equipment. Who decided this cable needed to...
  • Connor Morency at the NASA Student Launch Competition in Huntsville, AL in 2019
    Connor Morency has landed a major Department of Defense fellowship to advance the frontiers of high-speed flows. A PhD student and Smead Scholar, Morency has earned a 2021 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG), which recognizes...
  • Astronauts on an EVA at the Mars Desert Research Station
    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
  • 脕lvaro Romero-Calvo
    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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