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NASA Selects University Teams to Explore Innovative Aeronautical Research
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NASA has selected another five university teams to participate in real-world aviation research challenges that could help transform flight in…

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NASA Selects Awardees for New Aviation Maintenance Challenge
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NASA has selected three university-led teams for the first round of a new technical challenge pursuing innovative aviation maintenance practices.…

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NASA Research Challenge Selects Two New Student-Led Teams
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NASA has selected two new university student teams to participate in real-world aviation research challenges meant to transform the skies…

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NASA Research Challenge Selects Next Round of Student Participants
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NASA has selected another round of university student teams to participate in real-world aviation research challenges meant to transform the…

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Collegiate teams to focus on natural disasters in 2024 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition
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In this year’s Gateways to Blue Skies competition, NASA asks collegiate teams to examine aviation-related systems that will aid in…

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Winners Announced in Gateways to Blue Skies Aeronautics Competition
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The Boston University Team, with their project titled Aluminum Powder Combustion, took first place at the second annual Gateways to…

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NASA University Leadership Initiative’s First Teams Reflect on 5 Years
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In 2017, NASA gave five teams of university professors and students a unique opportunity: a chance to make original, hands-on…

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Yongming Liu, Arizona State University
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Editor’s Note: This interview, which was edited for brevity and clarity, helps mark the conclusion after five years of the…

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James Coder, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Editor’s Note: This interview, which was edited for brevity and clarity, helps mark the conclusion after five years of the…

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Jin Wang, The Ohio State University
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Editor’s Note: This interview, which was edited for brevity and clarity, helps mark the conclusion after five years of the…

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Dimitris Lagoudas, Texas A&M University
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Editor’s Note: This interview, which was edited for brevity and clarity, helps mark the conclusion after five years of the…

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David Matolak, University of South Carolina
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Editor’s Note: This interview, which was edited for brevity and clarity, helps mark the conclusion after five years of the…

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University Teams Selected as Finalists to Reimagine Aviation Energy Sources of the Future
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Eight teams participating in the 2023 Gateways to Blue Skies: Clean Aviation Energy (Blue Skies) Competition have been selected to…

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NASA Names University Teams to Take on Aeronautics Research Challenges
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NASA has selected four teams of university faculty and students to solve key challenges facing the future of air travel…

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University Researchers Moving Electrified Aviation Forward with NASA
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With support from NASA, university researchers have made advances towards developing advanced fuel cells and electricity-conducting technology to generate power…

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Clean Aviation Energy is Focus of 2023 Blue Skies Competition
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In this year’s Gateways to Blue Skies Competition (aka, Blue Skies), NASA asks teams to identify potential clean aviation energy…

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Winners Announced in Inaugural Gateways to Blue Skies Aeronautics Competition
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The Carnegie Mellon University team, with their project titled, Sustainability and Connected Autonomy: A New Era for Aviation, took first…

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USRC Students Sees Success with Crowdfunding, NASA Grants
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A group of undergraduate students at Virginia Tech are working on a system that can 3D-print a whole drone and…

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NASA Selects Four University Teams for Aviation Projects
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NASA’s research focus on sustainable aviation will get some big help from teams of university faculty and students recently selected…

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NASA’s University Initiative Showing Its Worth
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It’s been five productive years since NASA created an opportunity for universities across the country to compete to receive grants…

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ULI Researchers Pay it Forward to High Schoolers
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The aeronautical innovators of tomorrow are alive today and NASA’s University Leadership Initiative (ULI) is helping them realize their dreams.…

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ULI Project Information by Selection Round
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NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) solicited its first round of University Leadership Initiative proposals in April 2016. Selections were…

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NASA Selects Teams for Fourth Round of University Research Projects
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Innovations in areas of aeronautical research such as Advanced Air Mobility, electrified aircraft propulsion, and hypersonic flight will be explored…

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NASA Aeronautics Design Challenge
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NASA’s nationwide team of aeronautical innovators are committed to giving university students opportunities to solve some of the biggest technical…

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University Student Research Challenge
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NASA’s University Student Research Challenge (USRC) invites students to propose new research ideas that could help solve some of the…

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UI Project Contacts
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Project ManagerKoushik Datta Deputy Project Manager Gelsomina (Mina) Cappuccio Assistant Project ManagerSteven Holz For questions about the University Leadership Initiative…

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About University Innovation Project (UI)
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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,…

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Deadline Nears for University Student Research Opportunity
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NASA’s aeronautical innovators are inviting university students to propose new research ideas that could help them solve some of the…

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Honoring Those with the Right Stuff on National Aviation Day
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There’s no flight without pilots. Airplanes can’t fly anywhere they want, anytime they want, without pilots. At least, not yet.…

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NASA Looks to University Teams to Advance Aviation Technology
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Editor’s Note: This release was edited on April 14 to update the list of members of the Oklahoma State University…

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