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Divya Thakur, an aerospace engineering PhD candidate, has won the John V. Breakwell Student Travel Award from the American Astronautical Society (AAS) Space Flight Mechanics Committee.

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The William Stamps Farish Fund in Houston has donated $400,000 to a collaboration between ICES and the Texas Heart Institute (THI) to study life-threatening vulnerable plaques, the cause of at least two-thirds of all heart attacks, and new ways to prevent them.

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Mary Wheeler has been awarded with the 2013 John von Neumann Medal, the highest award bestowed by the United States Association for Computational Mechanics.

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This summer, Dr. Todd Humphreys and his graduate students set out to coerce a 213-foot yacht off its course on the Mediterranean Sea, using a custom-made GPS device.

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The University of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain awarded ICES Professor Thomas J.R. Hughes an honorary doctorate in civil engineering on June 21, 2013.

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The UT Solar Vehicles Team took sixth place at this year’s Formula Sun Grand Prix. Learn how ASE graduate student Benton Greene led the construction of TexSun.

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Katharine Brumbaugh was selected as a recipient of the competitively awarded National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG).

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José M. Hernández, former NASA astronaut, recently visited the ASE/EM department to speak to students about how perseverance can lead to success.

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Professor Leszek Demkowicz has been recognized with two symposia in honor of his 60th birthday and his prestigious career this summer.

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Brian O’Connor, a Plan II honors and aerospace engineering senior, has been selected to participate in an internship opportunity with the Air Force Research Laboratory.

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The Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics mourns the loss of Professor Emeritus Raynor L. Duncombe who died at his residence in Austin, Texas on Friday, July 12, 2013 at the age of 96.

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While conducting a series of rocket launches throughout the academic year, team members have taken an important step to not only build rockets, but to strengthen their knowledge base to build high-power, more successful rockets.

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More than 15 years ago, Byron Tapley, director of the Center for Space Research, set out to look at the earth in a different way. Now, the next phase of the GRACE mission begins.

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As Ken Fisher (shown left with Superbowl tickets in hand), a Marine Corps dog handler, patrolled the streets of Afghanistan for bombs with his military dog, his life changed in an instant when an explosion severely injured both of them.

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Maruthi Akella and his research group are developing algorithms to enable teams of coordinated UAVs to collect data about melting glaciers.