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  • Class of '10 selects Heiser Award winners

    Kenneth Siegenthaler from the Department of Astronautics and Col. Neal Rappaport from the Department of Economics and Geosciences won the Academy's 2010 Heiser Awards May 6.First-class cadets selected the two instructors from more than 160 eligible senior professors based on contributions to cadets'

  • Schulte award ceremony to be held May 25

    The inaugural 1st Lt. Roslyn L. Schulte Cadet Awards and Recognition Ceremony will be held at the Academy's McDermott Library May 25, at 11:30 a.m.The award commemorates the life and career of Lieutenant Schulte, who was killed outside Kabul, Afghanistan, when the vehicle in which she was traveling

  • Academy takes 2nd place in regional intramural volleyball title

    As many sports teams have come to find out, it's a rather tough task to beat an opponent twice during tournament play.For Team Schriever, the volleyball squad made up of players from various intramural teams on base, that task came Saturday during the semifinals of the Rocky Mountain Volleyball

  • Ceremony in Kabul honors fallen '06 graduate

    At exactly 8:09 a.m. May 20, silence fell over a crowd of people gathered together as they remembered two fallen comrades lost one year ago today. In memorial services, buildings at Camp Eggers and Sia Sang in Kabul were dedicated to 1st Lt. Roslyn Schulte, a 2006 Air Force Academy graduate, and

  • Warrior Games Cyclists brave cold for 20k, 10k races

    Warrior Games cyclists braved snow and near-freezing weather at the Air Force Academy May 13 to take part in a series of 20k and 10k races.Senior Master Sgt. Mitchell Sanders took the Air Force's first gold medal of the inaugural Warrior Games, winning the 10k recumbent cycling event with a time of

  • STS-131 pilot speaks at Academy Astronautics dining-out

    The pilot for the STS-131 Space Shuttle mission and a 1991 Air Force Academy graduate came to the Academy May 7 to speak with Department of Astronautics faculty members and cadets majoring in the astronautics field during a dining-out at the Falcon Club."Col. Jim Dutton is exactly the kind of

  • Academy superintendent appears on NPR's 'Wait, Wait ...'

    Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Mike Gould has never been to Eton College in England, but that didn't stop him from correctly answering two of three questions about the 600-year-old institution during the "Not My Job" segment of National Public Radio's "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me," recorded at a

  • Admissions engages with Native Americans

    Academy Admissions continues to engage with Native American around the country to increase Native American representation among the Cadet Wing.Second Lt. Richard Kenny, of the Academy Admission's Diversity Recruiting Division, attended the Native American Student Advocacy Institute's annual event at

  • Academy superintendent to appear on NPR's 'Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me!'

    Air Force Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Mike Gould will make a guest appearance on National Public Radio's "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" to be taped at the Pikes Peak Center in Colorado Springs May 6 at 7 p.m.The program is scheduled to air in Colorado Springs on NPR affiliate KRCC 91.5 FM May 8

  • Board of Visitors to meet May 13

    The Air Force Academy's Board of Visitors is scheduled to meet in Washington, D.C., May 13 in the U.S. Capitol Building Visitor Center's Main Conference Room. The purpose of this meeting is to review morale and discipline, social climate, curriculum, instruction physical equipment, fiscal affairs,