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  • Academy cadet wins Hockey Humanitarian Award

    Air Force senior Chris Dylewski is this year's recipient of the Hockey Humanitarian Award. The award recognizes college hockey's top citizen, a student-athlete who makes significant contributions to their team and community.  Among those contributions, Dylewski, of Colorado Springs, founded RISE,

  • Sexual assault expert Anne Munch visits Academy

    A leading expert on sexual assault visited the Air Force Academy in March to meet senior cadets, faculty and staff to discuss perceptions and societal attitudes regarding the crime.  Anne Munch, an attorney and victim-advocate, routinely visits the Academy. She’s a co-creator of the U.S. military’s

  • Academy freshmen get ‘recognized’

    “Recognition” for freshmen cadets at the Air Force Academy was in full swing March 10-12 as hundreds of four degrees sprinted across campus, exercised, and did their best to follow the loud orders of senior cadets.  The three-day event is a challenge freshmen must endure before earning the status of

  • Cadets, local students share research at CSURF

    More than 160 Air Force Academy cadets participated in the Colorado Springs Undergraduate Research Forum April 2 at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.  The CSURF is a collaborative event focusing on the accomplishments of undergraduates from the Academy, Colorado College and UCCS.  “The

  • Air Force junior makes Olympic team

     An Air Force Academy cadet earned a spot on the USA Shooting Team and is scheduled to compete in Rio this summer at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad. Cadet 2nd Class David Higgins, of San Clemente, California, qualified for the Olympics during the three-day Olympic Team Trials shooting competition

  • Cadets celebrate Academy with Founders Day Parade 

    The cadet wing moved their annual march in honor of Founders Day to the terrazzo April 2 due to the snow that covered Stillman Parade Field. Cadets assigned to the Academy’s 40-sqaudron wing marched in the parade. Founders Day is a traditional celebration of the legacy and future of the Air Force

  • Academy asks help in reporting potholes, road damage

    Civil engineers at the Air Force Academy are asking drivers to report potholes and road damage.  Repairs crews are trying to repair damage from last year, and these reports will help prioritize repair projects at the 10th Civil Engineer Squadron, said john Sutherland, a pavements, maintenance and

  • Academy to host 5km to raise money for AFAF

    A 5k run is scheduled here to drum-up donations for the Air Force Assistance Fund Campaign, 9 a.m., April 9 at the base’s Par Course.  Entry fees collected at the event will be donated to the campaign. Those entry fees are $10 for cadets and airmen through senior airmen; $15 for staff and technical