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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Marriage workshop teaches skills, dispels myths

    Engaged cadets and cadets in committed relationships took time to explore relationship topics at a marriage preparation and relationship enhancement workshop April 29-30 at the Academy.The workshop began in 2002 when members of the Academy's Behavioral Sciences Department wanted to dispel a myth

  • Power of law, cadet style

    Dozens of Academy cadets on Monday witnessed firsthand the application of the Constitution they will soon swear to protect and defend.The Academy once again this year took part in Law Day, an annual nationwide ritual that dates to the Eisenhower administration. Actively promoted by the American Bar

  • Academy hosts security innovation competition

    The Air Force Academy hosted the fifth annual National Security Innovation competition April 29.Ten teams from universities across the nation, and even one from Canada, presented a new concept or technology with the potential to meet an identifiable national security need before a national panel of

  • Cadets participate in cutting-edge research forum

    One prominent aspect of the cadet experience at the Air Force Academy is the opportunity undergrads have to engage in cutting-edge research.The breadth and depth of that research became evident at the eighth annual Colorado Springs Undergraduate Research Forum, held Saturday at the Academy. The