Aerospace Department Wins Academic Leadership Awards
The Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences was recognized with two awards for academic leadership from the CU President’s Office in June. The department won the first-place, $15,000 award for Outstanding Academic Leadership in Undergraduate Student Success and the second-place, $5,000 award for Outstanding Academic Leadership in Graduate and Professional Student Success.

The awards were established this year by President Bruce Benson to recognize departments or programs whose students demonstrate consistent, extraordinary academic achievement at the national or international level. The Department of Physics at CU-Boulder won first place in the graduate student category, while the Department of Chemistry at CU-Colorado Springs took second at the undergraduate level.

“Our Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences is a jewel in the crown of the University of Colorado,” said Dean Rob Davis. “It has a rich tradition of using project-based learning to provide students with the best possible education and prepare them to be leaders of the nation's aerospace industry and programs.” >>More info

CU Renews MOU with Xi'an Jiaotong University
Anja Lange of the college’s Herbst Program of Humanities has been teaching at Xi'an Jiaotong University in China for the past two semesters, and she has renewed the MOU between the two institutions that was first established by a CU-Boulder faculty member in writing and rhetoric. Lange hopes to promote additional student and faculty exchanges between the two institutions, and she reports that Jiaotong has expressed interest in offering internships in labs for our engineering students among other activities. Contact anja.lange@colorado.edu for more information.

Suit Yourself Collecting Donations for Fifth Annual Sale
Cleaning out your closet this summer? Consider donating your gently worn professional attire to CU-Boulder students. Career Services is collecting gently worn business attire to be sold to students at low cost at the “Suit Yourself” clothing sale in the fall, so that students are well-dressed for their job interviews.

Men’s and women’s suits, jackets, pants, shirts, skirts, ties and handbags will be accepted at Career Services and all Art Cleaners stores in Boulder through Aug. 18. Proceeds from the sale will benefit the Multicultural Engineering Program and the Multicultural Business Students Association. Donations are tax deductible. Contact: Ann Herrmann at ann.herrmann@colorado.edu or 303-492-8020.

Honors & Awards
Congratulations to the following individuals on their outstanding achievements:

Faculty
Chris Koehler of the Colorado Space Grant Consortium led a weeklong workshop at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in June on building experiments for flight on suborbital rockets. The “RockOn!” workshop was attended by 60 people from universities in 22 states and Puerto Rico.

Balaji Rajagopalan of civil, environmental and architectural engineering was selected to receive the Norbert Gerbier-MUMM International Award, a prestigious recognition from the World Meteorological Organization for the article he co-authored in Science last year on the Indian Monsoon.

Vijay Gupta of civil, environmental and architectural engineering has been awarded the Robert Horton Medal from the American Geophysical Union, the highest recognition given to a hydrologist.

William Yearsley of civil, environmental and architectural engineering has been awarded the Nicholas R. Petry Professorship of Construction Engineering and Management.

Regan Zane of electrical and computer engineering received the IEEE Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award, recognizing outstanding achievement in the field of power electronics by an engineer of less than 35 years of age.

Dragan Maksimovic and Regan Zane of electrical and computer engineering received the IEEE Power Electronics Society Transactions Prize Letter Award for 2007 for their paper, "Small-signal discrete-time modeling of digitally controlled PWM converters."

Won Park of electrical and computer engineering has been awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Senior Fellowship in Cancer Nanotechnology Research funded by the NIH National Cancer Institute.

Students
Laurren Kanner of aerospace engineering sciences was selected to receive the AIAA Abe M. Zarem Award for distinguished achievement in astronautics.

Jason Roadman of aerospace engineering sciences has been selected as this year’s recipient of the AIAA Foundation John Leland Atwood Graduate Award sponsored by endowments from Rockwell and Boeing North American, Inc.

Nick Pedatella of aerospace engineering sciences won the first-place award in the student poster competition for his work "Longitude structure of the low-latitude F-region ionosphere" at the annual Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions Workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Janine Galvin of chemical and biological engineering received the Best PhD Thesis in Particle Technology Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. She was advised by Christine Hrenya and Rob Davis, and is continuing her research at the Department of Energy in Albany, Ore.

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