Grad Profile
Spencer Dansereau is building a business that could turn air pollution into a useable product.A Â鶹ӰԺ aerospace PhD student, Dansereau aims to take carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and extract
Alex Meyer is an astrodynamics expert, engineer, PhD student, and now, a part of the night sky. The International Astronomical Union has officially named an asteroid after him. Asteroid 2000 ND17 is now...
Dezell Turner loves orbital design; a critical step in planning any space mission, and he is plotting out a way to streamline the complex process with an interactive, augmented reality tool. “The current methods of trajectory design for cislunar
Sarah Luettgen is building a future as an aerospace professional, studying the space domain of satellite orbits in the extreme upper reaches of Earth’s atmosphere. As a second-year aerospace PhD student and Smead Scholar at the University of
I am from Arvada, Colorado and I've always been interested in math and science, particularly when we see solutions to problems that make so much sense that it's hard to believe they came from a bunch of equations. It's a bit of a...
My name is Becca Mikula and I am from Savannah, Missouri. Savannah is a small, farming community in northwest Missouri. When I was growing up, I remember looking at the stars almost every night and...
I grew up in Augsburg, Germany which is about 60 minutes west of Munich. While playing in Germany's under 19 first division basketball league, I started an apprenticeship to become a computer engineer. This was my first exposure to...
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 Â鶹ӰԺ, is studying polar mesospheric clouds and their...
I came to Â鶹ӰԺ, CO for employment with an impactful non-profit that supports earth science research using geodetic data called UNAVCO.If you aren’t sure what geodesy is, you are not alone, but you definitely depend...
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...