Undergraduate Profile

  • Anthony Storm at Johnson Space Center.
    Anthony Storm is hard at work at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, developing plans for upcoming tests that will support astronauts in future missions. An aerospace junior at the...
  • Ada Forsner
    We sat down with fourth-year aerospace engineering student Ada Forsner, who is also minoring in space and engineering management, to share about her CU Engineering experience! Ada serves as the Internal Coordinator for the Women of Aeronautics
  • Sasha at JPL.
    Sasha Gladkova has always loved science and space, but she never imagined work in those fields could become her career. She had done well in high school math, completing multiple levels of calculus, but was dedicated to another future: gymnastics and acrobatics. It was an area where she had excelled to the highest levels, competing internationally for...
  • Liza Graybill
    I grew up in Lititz, Pennsylvania, and I fell in love with aerospace when I visited Kennedy Space Center after I graduated from high school. Seeing Space Shuttle Atlantis in person was the first time I can definitively say I became interested in aerospace. I loved space growing up and spent many nights stargazing, but I had never...
  • Jade on the soccer field.
    I grew up in Del Mar, California, which is a city in north San Diego. From a young age I have always been very interested in science and math, and always looked forward to those classes the most. Math came the easiest, and from 5th grade on I was always...
  • Teagan Browne
    It was mid-March and stress was high at the University of Colorado Boulder. Due to the COVID pandemic, courses had transitioned online and students were moving out of the campus dorms. As one of her newly Zoom-based classes let out, Teagan Browne’s phone rang...
  • Demetrius Ross
    CU Boulder Aerospace junior Demetrius M. Ross is preparing for an internship with NASA. Due to COVID-19, he will no longer be traveling to the Pasadena-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), buthe’ll still be keeping busy.Working
  • Addison Woodard
    Aerospace junior and Colorado native Addison Woodard is Johnson Space Center-bound.

    The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences undergraduate has been selected as one of just 25 students nationwide for a 2020 NASA Pathways internship at JSC in Houston, Texas.

    “This is a program I've...
  • Ian Geraghty and Xinzhao Chu in Antarctica.
    Ian Geraghty (AeroEngr BS'19) is in the middle of yearlong research experience in one of the most inaccessible and extreme places on Earth: Antarctica. He's using lidar -- a pulsed laser system -- aimed at the sky to study the atmosphere at altitudes so high Earth weather and space weather interact.
  • Kristyn Sample
    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
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