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Noel Clemens, Moriba Jah and Karen Willcox have been elected to the prestigious title of Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) for their notable contributions to the aerospace engineering community.

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Tan Bui-Thanh is the recipient of a 2019 National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his work on inverse modeling and uncertainty quantification.

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Moriba Jah is the first aerospace engineer to be selected a TED Fellow for his research on space situational awareness and space traffic control.

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Professor Thomas J.R. Hughes was named a 2018 Highly Cited Researcher for his exceptional research performance, demonstrated by production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top one percent by citations.

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Graduate student Siddarth Kaki was selected by Aviation Week Network and the AIAA for its prestigious award program, “Tomorrow’s Technology Leaders: The 20 Twenties.”

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Alumnus Payam Banazadeh is the CEO and founder of Capella Space, which just became the first U..S. company to launch a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite to space.

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Alumnus Alan Stern answered questions about NASA's New Horizons mission on Reddit. The team is preparing for a New Year's Day  encounter with "Ultima Thule," a Kuiper Belt object, which will mark the farthest spacecraft flyby in history.

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In this opinion piece published in the San Antonio Express, Professor Luis Sentis discusses the value of robots that will "enrich the human experience."

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UT Austin and Firefly Academy have partnered to establish Firefly@UT — a $1 million, multi-year program will offer UT students the opportunity to design, develop and assemble an industrial-scale rocket capable of launching to the edge of space.

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Alumnus Karl Schulz is part of a UT Austin research team that was awarded a $1.2M Smart and Connnected Health grant to support research using smartphones to monitor 1,000 pregnant women in the Austin area.

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Karen Willcox and J. Tinsley Oden are leading efforts on a joint university-DOE program to create the "AEOLUS" center for applied mathematics research in experimental design, optimal control, and learning.

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Professor Noel Clemens, along with authors Dr. Leon Vanstone and Joe Lingren, have been awarded the AIAA High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion Best Paper award.

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Chad Landis has been awarded the ASE/EM LUNAR Council Teaching Award for 2018 for making a positive impact on students’ educational experience through superior teaching.

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Three ASE/EM faculty members, David Goldstein, Greg Rodin and John Foster, received ICES 2018 W. A. "Tex" Moncrief Grand Challenge Awards.

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To kick of the fall semester, UAV Austin, UT’s unmanned aerial vehicle team, hosted a three-week long training camp to help prospective members and the general student body become more familiar with engineering concepts.