• Marshall Scholar to focus on Latin America

    Not only is Cadet 1st Class Austin McKinney at the top of his class academically, he is the Academy's newest Marshall Scholar.The management major with a minor in Spanish will attend the University of London next year to begin pursuing two master's degrees, one in Latin American studies and another

  • Academy cadet on the road to Oxford

    The Air Force Academy's newest Rhodes Scholar said she visited several schools in her search for a university but could not pass up the sense of purpose she felt here."I was greatly impressed by the honor code and the feeling of family among the cadets that I visited," said Cadet 1st Class Brittany

  • Cadet Squadron 23 repeats as Commandant’s Challenge champs

    Cadet Squadron 23 scored its second straight win for the top spot overall in the Commandant's Challenge this year. The annual event Nov. 21-23 pitted squadron against squadron in competitions testing the Cadet Wing's physical, intellectual and mental fitness. Cadets were outbriefed Nov. 23 in Clune

  • Cadet Squadron 31 brings smiles to Cadet for a Day

    For Hannah Marklin, 16, and the Academy's newest Cadet for a Day, it was a weekend packed with tours, football, aviation, demonstrations and hanging out with some 100 new friends.Hannah, her parents and friend Evan Simon, visited the Academy Nov. 12 through 14 and were feted by Cadet Squadron

  • CSU's 'A'

    It has been 30 years. Hopefully, the statute of limitations has expired on any crimes we may have committed. Maybe it hasn't, however. Most of my unindicted co-conspirators, perhaps intending to remain so, managed to ignore my recent letters asking for inputs. Those few hapless compatriots I was

  • Academy physicists probe mystery of 'black silicon'

    Physicists here are researching new, more cost-efficient ways to create a substance that could make solar energy cheaper to produce. Dr. Michael Shaffer and retired Lt. Col. Jody Mandeville are using nanosecond bursts from a 200-milliJoule pulsed laser in the Academy's Physics Department to produce

  • Falcon gymnasts support breast cancer cure

    The gymnasts here are used to competing against other teams, but they came together to take on a much tougher opponent Oct. 4, taking to the streets of downtown Denver to participate in the annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.Denver's Race for the Cure is one of nearly 120 such races that take

  • Trailing dogs hone their sniffing skills

    It was all noses to the ground last week during a canine trailing seminar here recently. Chris Jakubin, Academy kennel master and trailing instructor, joined forces with instructors from Canine Training Academy in Cañon City to help train and certify 19 working dogs in seeking out criminal suspects

  • Eisenhower Club recognizes charter golfers

    Some memories and the people in them should never be lost. A shadow box commemorating the 205 Eisenhower Men's Golf Association pioneers and containing the historical artifacts from 1988, was presented by the association to the Eisenhower Golf Club Sept. 17. The Eisenhower Men's Golf Association

  • Space forum identifies rising space professionals

    On a recent September afternoon in the ballroom of the Mayflower Hotel in downtown Washington D.C., rising space professionals, senior policy mentors from government and industry, and space policy academics; debated and dissected current American space policies ranging from the long-term policy