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  • Air Force Academy Chaplain (Capt.) Chad Zielinski receives the Chaplain Corps Award during the Air Force Association's Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition Monday in National Harbor, Md. S. Sanford Schlitt, chairman of the AFA board, left, presented the award. Lt. Gen. Mike Gould, Academy superintendent (second from right) and Maj. Gen. Cecil Richardson, Air Force chief of chaplains, are also pictured. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Thomas A. Coney)

    AF Association honors Academy chaplain, education program

    The Air Force Academy's undergraduate education programs and an Academy chaplain received awards Sept. 19 at the Air Force Association's annual Air & Space Conference & Technology Exposition in National Harbor, Md.The Air Force Association presented the 2011 Chaplain Corps Award for outstanding performance by a member of the Air Force Chaplain
  • Mardiyah Chamim and Cadet 1st Class Philicia Fahrenbruch talk while walking from the Air Force Academy's visitor center to the Cadet Chapel Aug. 22, 2011. Chamim, the managing editor for TEMPO News Weekly Magazine in Jakarta, Indonesia, was one of seven journalists from Asia and the Pacific to visit the Academy as part of the East-West Center's 2011 Senior Journalists Seminar. Fahrenbruch, is the Cadet Interfaith Council president and is assigned to Cadet Squadron 12. (U.S. Air Force photo/Don Branum)

    Senior journalists from Asia, Pacific visit Air Force Academy

    Seven senior journalists from publications in Asia and the Pacific visited the Air Force Academy Aug. 22 as part of a month-long seminar hosted by the East-West Center.The center's 2011 Senior Journalists' Seminar, which continues through Aug. 27, seeks to bridge gaps between the United States and the Muslim world, according to its website,
  • Second Lt. Michael Trubilla, seen here in his senior photo from the Air Force Academy, was named the Air Force Science and Technology Cadet Research Award winner for his work, which could vastly increase the efficiency of plutonium-based power sources for satellites. (U.S. Air Force photo)

    Recent grad's astro feats regarded as research crown 'joule'

    Look out, Richard Dean Anderson. There's a new MacGyver in town.His name is 2nd Lt. Michael Trubilla, and a prestigious award is in the 2011 Air Force Academy grad's very near future: Trubilla will receive the Air Force Science and Technology Cadet Research Award at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Thursday.Trubilla's mentors in the
  • Dr. William Crisler, a professor in the Air Force Academy's Aeronautics Department, was recently named winner of the 2011 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Mentorship Award by the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s Mid-Continent Region. (U.S. Air Force Photo/David Edwards)

    Aeronautics professor tops field in STEM mentorship

    The Air Force Academy's STEM initiative is now in full flower, and the efforts of its primary contributor, Dr. William Crisler, are coming up roses. Now Crisler is about to assume the spotlight and be honored for his success in inspiring children and teens to take an interest in science, technology, engineering and math.The Federal Laboratory
  • From left, Cadet 1st Class Megan Holt, U.S. Military Academy, Cadet 1st Class Dayna Grant, Cadet Squadron 26, Cadet 1st Class Brian Solmonson, USMA, and Clay Johnson, a Liberian student and guide. In front is Peter, a security guard who showed the cadets around the Ducor Palace Hotel in Monrovia, Liberia. (Courtesy Photo)

    Research labs stretch minds

    The Air Force Academy apparently puts considerable credence in a certain saying that involves idle minds and a workshop.That might explain why more than 150 of its sharpest minds are anything but idle during the quietest interval in the academic year. There is no shortage of options for cadets to keep their bodies and brain cells active during the
  • Upperclass Cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy have the opportunity to spend one of their summer sessions in Cyber 256, Basic Cyber Operations, a new course that rounds out the training regimen designed to fit the Air Force mission of fighting and winning in air, space and cyberspace. The course is intended to spark cadets’ interest in pursuing more in-depth work in computer science. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Raymond McCoy)

    Cadets study art of cyber warfare

    Rising sophomores at the Air Force Academy might compile a "things I did this summer" list that looks a little something like this:Deployment exercise, check. Piloted an airplane, check. Trained by the Air Force to be computer hacker, check.That last one is not a joke. Thanks to a newly introduced summer course called Cyber 256, Basic Cyber

  • Operation Air Force: Cadets take trial runs at Aviano AB

    Eight cadets recently visited Aviano Air Base, Italy, recently as part of Operation Air Force, a program designed to give cadets operational Air Force experience.In Operation Air Force, rising juniors and seniors spend nearly three weeks at an Air Force base to shadow active-duty personnel in different career fields to learn about the operational
  • Cadet 1st Class Jordan Wittman, United States Air Force Academy Cadet Squadron 30, helps Staff Sgt. Matthew Jones lay out bare pallets on the assembly line at the U.S. Army Riggers detachment. Cadet Wittman is here on Deployed Ops, a summer program which sends Academy cadets to deployed locations. (U.S. Air Force photo/Cadet 1st Class Shaina Thompson)

    Cadets get taste of deployed life

    Approximately 60 Air Force Academy cadets hit the ground in Southwest Asia June 18, seeing deployed operations firsthand and meeting deployed Airmen.Cadets may participate in Operations Air Force between their sophomore and junior years at the Academy.The program sends groups of cadets to Air Force bases for three weeks, where they follow officers
  • Falcons offensive linemen build their strength and endurance during practice at the Air Force Academy Athletic Fields Aug. 3, 2010. The previous season's offensive lineman graduated in May, but Air Force football head coach Troy Calhoun said he is confident in the new line's motivation and expertise. (U.S. Air Force photo/Rachel Boettcher)

    Falcons football tops MWC in academics

    The Air Force Academy football team's Academic Progress Rate score of 978 for the 2009-10 academic year is the best in the Mountain West Conference for its sport according to data released May 24 by the NCAA. The Falcons were followed by Texas Christian University with 972 and Utah with 956.The Air Force football program, along with women's cross

  • Grad takes Academy experiment into space on Endeavour

    An Air Force Academy graduate piloted the space shuttle Endeavour while carrying an Air Force Academy physics experiment into space just before 7 a.m. Mountain Standard Time, from Cape Canaveral for NASA's STS-134 mission. Piloting the crew of STS-134 is retired Col. Gregory H. Johnson, a 1984 graduate of the Air Force Academy."We are an
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