In middle school, she was driving tractors. At UMD, she was launching balloon payloads to near space.
Maryland’s Balloon Payload Team takes to dark skies during Perseids in search of extraterrestrial particles.
The fellowships will support research in robotics, planetary science, and space-based sensing.
Grad Students’ Initiative Aims to Collect Data During Historic Near-Miss of Earth
At the A. James Clark School of Engineering, we honor the contributions of Black engineering trailblazers, whose accomplishments improve our society through innovation and leadership.
Aerospace engineering student Jeremy (JJ) Kuznetsov recognized among group of rising young professionals pursuing STEM fields.
Senior Jeremy Kuznetsov recognized with $3,000 scholarship that supports outstanding students pursuing digital avionics.
UMD Nearspace launched two balloons into the path of the April 8 solar eclipse.
UMD Nearspace will attempt to launch two balloons into the path of the solar eclipse.
We are proud to celebrate Women’s History Month.
Maryland Nearspace will lead a group of ballooning teams in NASA’s National Eclipse Ballooning Project.
Two BIOE professors help author a roadmap to expanding faculty hiring in STEM.
Alison Flatau has been named the new chair of aerospace engineering at UMD.
Inspired at an early age to become a propulsion engineer, Young is helping a new generation of engineers achieve their dreams.
For 18 Years, Student Organization Has Sent Science Sky-high
Competition challenges student teams to design concepts for space exploration.
Junior Benjamin Adarkwa Wins One of Six Inaugural Virgin Galactic BLAST Scholarships.
Four University of Maryland teams competed in this year’s NASA 2020 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition.
Quinn Kupec’s efforts featured on North Dakota news outlet KVRR.
Alumni Kerry Wisnosky (aerospace engineering, ’86), co-founder of Millennium, provides new balloon payload project opportunities to help enhance student research capabilities.
How an 18-year-old student engineering project showed up in a new sci-fi book.
A team of Clark School students will compete in this year's RASC-AL competition, held June 18-20, 2019.
K-12 outreach efforts help the Clark School to both recruit prospective engineering students and cultivate a diverse student population.
A team of 19 undergraduate students won first place for the RASC-AL theme category and second place in the overall competition.
A question and answer session with Quinn Kupec, an undergraduate researcher in Aerospace Engineering, who recently grabbed the attention of Elon Musk.
Twelve students won awards for their papers, and seven were from UMD.
View landscapes and research operations at three locations.
Visiting Assistant Professor Mary Bowden became acting director of the Women in Engineering (WIE) program.
The Clark School is deploying teams of faculty, staff and students to experience the solar eclipse in-person.
Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkages (RASC-AL) Space Design Competition
Bowden inspires students, recognized with WIA 2016 Aerospace Educator Award.
University of Maryland Celebrates 50
th Launch of the Maryland Space Grant Consortium Balloon Payload Program
Aerospace engineering students design winning concept for a Mars settlement and lunar refueling station.
Akin, Bowden, Fourney, Humbert and Kothera promoted to American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Associate Fellows
Aerospace engineering undergrad students place second overall in 2014 RASC-AL competition.
Three Clark School students and their college and high school mentors recognized.
Aerospace engineering students win American Helicopter Society, NASA design competitions.
Part of National Federation of the Blind event with Aero students, faculty.
Students' amateur radio high altitude balloon tops previous record by nearly 3,000 feet.
Aero students dominate in first year of international satellite design competition.
Undergrad team's lunar flying vehicle design wins at RASC-AL.
Terrapin Undergraduate Rover for Terrestrial Lunar Exploration awarded first place.