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  • Air Force football team has 42 on Dean's List

    The Air Force football team had 42 team members earn Dean's List honors for academic excellence for the fall 2013 semester. Cadets must earn a 3.0 grade point average or higher to make the Dean's List."Our players work extraordinarily hard to earn the world's finest education at the Air Force

  • USAFA tax center to open in Feb.

    The Academy's Tax Center is scheduled to offer Academy Airmen and their families free tax preparation services in February. Taxes will be prepared by appointment only, 8-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m., Mondays and Fridays. This service will be open to income eligible active duty Academy service members,

  • Wings of Blue win big at national competition

    The Air Force Academy's Wings of Blue parachute team took home 33 medals at the National Collegiate Parachute Competition, Dec. 27-Jan. 2 in Lake Wells, Fla. Earning nine gold, 16 silver, and eight bronze medals, the team received the highest point total at the competition, making it the collegiate

  • Aspiring intel officer receives Holaday Scholarship

    A cadet who hopes to change the way the Defense Department provides intelligence to warfighters has received the 2014 Holaday Scholarship.Cadet 1st Class Kari Baker said she hopes to use the scholarship to pursue a Master of Science degree in global governance and diplomacy at Oxford University in

  • USAFA professor wins NASA award

    A U.S. Air Force Academy professor received a high-level NASA award in December for his contributions to a six-month project researching the use of alternative biofuel to power aircraft. Dr. Thomas Yechout, an Academy Aeronautical Engineering professor, was one of about a dozen consultants to

  • Academy counselors available to help with life's challenges

    Academy Military Family Life counselors offer free and flexible short-term counseling with no strings attached. The four Academy MFLCs can meet with service members, their families, Defense Department civilians, or cadets on or off-base to provide situational, problem-solving counseling support and

  • Cadets to jump for national title

    Cadets from the Academy's Wings of Blue parachute team will give up their holiday break to perform at the 2013 National Collegiate Parachuting Championships in Lake Wales, Fla., Dec. 27 - Jan. 2.The airborne action starts with two-way and four-way formation skydiving where groups of parachutists

  • Searching for the sound: Academy cadet researchers work to end bird strikes

    A group of Academy cadets has flocked together and come up with a noisy proposition: using loud sound to decrease the changes of a bird strike on a plane during takeoff and landing.A bird strike or "BASH" - Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard -- is a collision between an airborne animal and an aircraft, and

  • Cadet-designed system aids stroke victim recovery

    An entrepreneurial collaboration between the Air Force Academy and Penrose-St. Francis Health Services is creating a device to help patients recover their full range of motion after suffering a stroke or injury. The project - called Neumimic - is the result of a partnership between mechanical and

  • Airmen, USAFA leaders discuss force managment at town hall meetings

    Academy leaders hosted two town hall meetings here this week to discuss how the next round of Defense Department-mandated force shaping could affect enlisted and commissioned Airmen.Force-management is the DOD term for sizing its civilian and military staff to fit budget and mission constraints."We