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    Female cadets gain confidence at math conference

    01.18.2024 | Story by Stephen Roughton
    Lt. Col. Leann Ferguson has observed many U.S. Air Force Academy Department of Mathematical Sciences female cadets’ confidence soar after attending the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics. A cadet from the Class of 2022 desperately needed an experience to boost her confidence, said Ferguson, the department’s faculty development director and assistant mathematical sciences professor. She made certain that the cadet...

    Academy law professor creates lifelong learners

    01.25.2024 | Story by Katherine Spessa
    U.S. Air Force Academy Law Professor Douglas McKechnie is a scholar through and through. What his department head, Col. Tara Villena, calls “a true civilian,” McKechnie has never served in the military, but true to his thirst for knowledge, Villena says he “dove headfirst into everything [Academy].” Ten years after first taking his position here, he “now knows more about the military than some of us who are active duty,” the colonel says.

    CyberWorx cultivates cadet creativity

    01.25.2024 | Story by Stephen Roughton
    Cadet 2nd Class Kelsey Monaghan-Bergson says she feels empowered to challenge traditional thinking for more innovative solutions each time she visits Air Force CyberWorx. “In the CyberWorx space, I can just let my brain roam,” Monaghan-Bergson said. “I can doodle on a wall and throw sticky notes everywhere. I can visualize abstract concepts and translate them into engineering systems and map out neural networks. I just let my...

    27-year chemistry professor puts cadets first

    01.26.2024 | Story by Katherine Spessa
    In a conference room nestled among the classrooms and academic laboratories of Gregory Hall, cadets bring their individual readings to the table. The unique class Dr. Kimberly Gardner is teaching is more of a discussion than a lecture. The cadets choose their topics and what they read. Today, the discussion is about gemstones. This is a chemistry course, but the cadet’s broad core of knowledge leads over and through political science,...

    Therapy dogs bring smiles; reduce cadet stress

    01.29.2024 | Story by Stephen Roughton
    Cadet 3rd Class Nicolina Brown said she loves Go Team Therapy Crisis and Airport Dogs so much that she has a perfect answer whenever she’s late meeting friends. “I say, ‘you can’t blame me; there was a dog,'” Brown said. For 12 years, therapy dogs from Go Team have regularly visited the Academy. They provide smiles, stress relief and comfort. As freshmen adapt to the rigors of cadet life, they find reprieve through...

    Cadet mountaineers grow as leaders, friends

    02.06.2024 | Story by Stephen Roughton
    During Cadet 2nd Class Alyssa Hargis’s first trip with the U.S. Air Force Academy Mountaineering Club, she conquered her first 14,000-foot summit on Torreys Peak. The 14,267-foot peak in the Arapahoe National Forest is the highest point on the Continental Divide and considered a “welcome-to-the-team trip” for freshman cadet climbers. In the past three years, Hargis enjoyed Mountaineering Club trips ranging from Red Rock Canyon Open...

    Cadets look to patent gaze-assisted technology

    02.09.2024 | Story by Stephen Roughton
    When Col. Brian Neff arrived in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2018, he wanted his assistive technology laboratory filled with projects that would captivate cadets. The following year, Neff began the gaze-assisted wheelchair project for senior capstone students.

    Cadet spends STEM Semester Exchange 'Down Under'

    02.12.2024 | Story by Stephen Roughton
    During U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet 1st Class Zachary Curd’s semester in Australia last fall, he enjoyed experiences ranging from formal dining-ins to attending a Women’s World Cup game and scuba diving the Great Barrier Reef. He learned a lesson about globalization in his politics course during his STEM Cadet Semester Exchange Abroad Program with the Australian Defence Force Academy. But Curd also experienced the impact of building...

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    USAFA Drone Racing Team

    02.28.2024 | Photo by Rayna Grace
    U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- U.S. Air Force Academy’s Drone Racing Team member, Luke Hinge, flies a small unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV) on...
    NCLS 2024

    NCLS 2024

    02.27.2024 | Photo by Rayna Grace
    U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- Col. Matt Husemann, Vice Superintendent of The U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA), makes his opening remarks for the...

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