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In the 2025 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition, the theme is AgAir: Aviation Solutions for Agriculture. NASA asks collegiate teams…
Representatives of NASA’s Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program (TACP) recently shared information about their work to develop innovation and advance aviation…
NASA has selected another five university teams to participate in real-world aviation research challenges that could help transform flight in…
NASA has selected three university-led teams for the first round of a new technical challenge pursuing innovative aviation maintenance practices.…
NASA has selected two new university student teams to participate in real-world aviation research challenges meant to transform the skies…
NASA has selected another round of university student teams to participate in real-world aviation research challenges meant to transform the…
In this year’s Gateways to Blue Skies competition, NASA asks collegiate teams to examine aviation-related systems that will aid in…
The Boston University Team, with their project titled Aluminum Powder Combustion, took first place at the second annual Gateways to…
In 2017, NASA gave five teams of university professors and students a unique opportunity: a chance to make original, hands-on…
Editor’s Note: This interview, which was edited for brevity and clarity, helps mark the conclusion after five years of the…
Editor’s Note: This interview, which was edited for brevity and clarity, helps mark the conclusion after five years of the…
Editor’s Note: This interview, which was edited for brevity and clarity, helps mark the conclusion after five years of the…
Editor’s Note: This interview, which was edited for brevity and clarity, helps mark the conclusion after five years of the…
Editor’s Note: This interview, which was edited for brevity and clarity, helps mark the conclusion after five years of the…
Eight teams participating in the 2023 Gateways to Blue Skies: Clean Aviation Energy (Blue Skies) Competition have been selected to…
NASA has selected four teams of university faculty and students to solve key challenges facing the future of air travel…
With support from NASA, university researchers have made advances towards developing advanced fuel cells and electricity-conducting technology to generate power…
In this year’s Gateways to Blue Skies Competition (aka, Blue Skies), NASA asks teams to identify potential clean aviation energy…
The Carnegie Mellon University team, with their project titled, Sustainability and Connected Autonomy: A New Era for Aviation, took first…
A group of undergraduate students at Virginia Tech are working on a system that can 3D-print a whole drone and…
NASA’s research focus on sustainable aviation will get some big help from teams of university faculty and students recently selected…
It’s been five productive years since NASA created an opportunity for universities across the country to compete to receive grants…
The aeronautical innovators of tomorrow are alive today and NASA’s University Leadership Initiative (ULI) is helping them realize their dreams.…
ULI Projects Round 7 NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate solicited for a seventh round of University Leadership Initiative proposals in…
Innovations in areas of aeronautical research such as Advanced Air Mobility, electrified aircraft propulsion, and hypersonic flight will be explored…
NASA’s nationwide team of aeronautical innovators are committed to giving university students opportunities to solve some of the biggest technical…
USRC invites students to propose new research ideas that could help solve technical challenges facing 21st century aviation.
Project ManagerKoushik Datta Deputy Project Manager Gelsomina (Mina) Cappuccio Assistant Project ManagerSteven Holz For questions about the University Leadership Initiative…
The University Innovation (UI) project funds university-led innovation to address system-level challenges in ARMD’s strategic thrust outcomes via independent, NASA-alternate-path,…
NASA’s aeronautical innovators are inviting university students to propose new research ideas that could help them solve some of the…
