News
Fri, 06/02/2023 | The Graduate School
A&A Doctoral student Nick Andrews receives Fulbright fellowship
Andrews will use his Fulbright to conduct AUV subsea inspection and intervention tasks in Norway.
Tue, 05/23/2023
Chris Hayner awarded NASA NSTGRO Fellowship
A&A’s Chris Hayner awarded NASA fellowship to develop a trajectory planner for planetary landing missions.
Thu, 05/18/2023
Team Freyr is “Golden” in the Buerk Center’s Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge
A&A undergrad Morgan Golden talks farming, flying, and FREYR’s recent EIC win with new fertilizer software system.
Wed, 05/17/2023 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering
Professor Radha Poovendran to be UW lead for NSF-funded ACTION Institute
Poovendran is the UW lead for a new institute to leverage artificial intelligence to defend against cyberthreats.
Tue, 05/16/2023
A&A’s Thijs Masmeijer heads to University of Ljubljana with Graduate School Boeing International Fellowship
Thijs Masmeijer builds collaboration with University of Ljubljana to engineer structures inspired by spider webs.
Wed, 05/03/2023
A&A’s Quentin Roberts places 2nd at AIAA competition
Quentin Roberts wins an AIAA second place for research on pre-ignition propellant mixing for an RDRE.
Wed, 05/03/2023
Tugs in space
A&A is working toward trajectory planning for precise space maneuvers with electric propulsion for Starfish Space.
Mon, 04/24/2023 | UW Husky 100
A&A senior Salma Hassanain makes the Husky 100
Congratulations to Salma Hassanain for making the Husky 100, a list of 100 UW students!
Mon, 04/24/2023
Graduate student Thomas Key heads to Brazil with Boren Fellowship
A&A grad student Key will head to Brazil to work on small satellites to aid environmental conservation.
Wed, 04/19/2023 | Fusion Industry Association on YouTube
A&A grad student Jeff Peachman delivers Fusion Industry Association newscast
The Fusion Industry Association selected Peachman to deliver the April 19 weekly newscast. Watch it on YouTube.
Tue, 04/11/2023
Howard Hu is the 2023 A&A Distinguished Alumnus
The head of NASA’s Orion Program is the next A&A Distinguished Alumnus and 2023 graduation speaker.
Mon, 04/10/2023
Put more muscle into that structure
Adding soft actuation to rigid structures yields many key aerospace benefits, including strength, flexibility and efficiency.
Thu, 02/16/2023
A&A remembers Bob Sandusky (MS ‘71)
The Chief Engineer of the Northrop-McDonnell Douglas “Black Widow II” advanced tactical fighter died in January.
Thu, 02/16/2023
Açıkmeşe elected AIAA Fellow
Behçet Açıkmeşe will be formally inducted into the AIAA Fellows later this year.
Fri, 02/10/2023 | KIRO 7
Lummi Nation students talk with NASA astronaut who worked with their experiment on ISS
Lummi Nation students spoke with ISS astronaut Josh Cassada about their experiment in a live chat event at the UW.
Mon, 02/06/2023
A&A remembers Dana Andrews (BSAA '66)
Our 2014 A&A Distinguished Alumnus, board member and affiliate professor passed away in January.
Mon, 01/30/2023 | Brooke Owens Fellowship
47 undergraduate students earn their place at leading aerospace organizations in the Brooke Owens Fellowship class of 2023
A&A senior Caleigh Stagnone was one of only 47 undergraduates nationwide to secure a 2023 Brooke Owens Fellowship.
Tue, 01/17/2023
Isabella Rieco is the 2022 A&A Varanasi Fellow
Doctoral student Isabella Rieco from A&A’s SPACE Lab is the 2022 recipient of the Varanasi Endowed Fellowship.
Tue, 01/03/2023
An A&A-developed experiment is going to the International Space Station
A&A researchers are developing a film evaporation experiment under a new grant from CASIS and the NSF.
Thu, 12/15/2022 | KUOW
A step closer to a new form of renewable energy: Nuclear fusion
A&A’s Chris Hansen speaks with KUOW on what fusion energy is and the significance of the milestone at Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
Tue, 12/13/2022
Uri Shumlak elevated to 2023 IEEE Fellow
IEEE elevated Uri Shumlak to Fellow for research of sheared flow stabilization of the Z pinch for fusion energy.
Mon, 12/12/2022
Our new faculty in their own words
A&A welcomes Karen Leung, Alvar Saenz Otero and Amir Taghvaei to expand our research in controls and enhance our capstone program.
Tue, 12/06/2022 | UW College of Engineering
A pathway to engineering
Holland Kantner and Jayden Shafer come to A&A with some meaningful preparation.
Mon, 12/05/2022
Design Build Fly charts a new course
Expanded membership and a reimagined organizational structure delivered a successful plane and groundwork for more.
Wed, 11/23/2022
A&A mourns the passing of Nathan Precup (MSAA '18)
We are saddened to announce the passing of alumnus and former KWT staff Nathan Precup.