Features

  • Academy athlete anti-sexual violence video goes viral

    Athletes here are serious about sexual assault awareness - so much so, they filmed a "Cadet Athletes Against Sexual Violence" video in the spring that has captured the attention of thousands throughout social media and the military community.The two-and-a-half-minute montage features 13 cadet

  • The Air Force’s youngest instructor pilots

    Cadet 2nd Class Brianna Pauser was 350 feet in the air when she realized the gravity soaring instructor pilots here have on the lives and success of cadets.The biology major here was on a glider flight in the fall of 2013 with her IP in Airmanship 251 when, just after takeoff, the tow rope snapped

  • Academy welcomes tourists, visitors

    The Academy might be home to more than 4,000 cadets and nearly 2,000 active duty Airmen, but those numbers are vastly outweighed by the number of visitors the installation hosts each year."We want everyone to know that this is their Academy and that we're definitely open for business," said David

  • Academy introduces computer and network security major

    Even as the Air Force Academy has reduced the number of majors it offers this year, it has instituted one new program aimed at helping the Air Force fly, fight and win in cyberspace.The computer and network security major touches on topics designed to help cadets understand what the cyberspace

  • Integrating athletes, other students leads to better academic performance

    A study conducted by three instructors from the Air Force Academy and an assistant professor of finance at the University of Nebraska-Omaha found that making student athletes part of a closely knit student body helps them keep up with other students academically.The study, "Minding the Terrazzo Gap

  • Giving hope a new dimension

    Two professors at the United States Air Force Academy have shown that respect for people who are different can be taught - and it isn't that hard. Drs. Lauren Scharff and Michelle Butler have worked for many years to help cadets change pre-conceived notions of people with disabilities and, although

  • Top dogs work to protect Academy lives, mission

    Every day, seven loyal 10th Security Forces Squadron Airmen use their superior senses, instinct, strength and intelligence to keep everyone here out of harm's way. They train to enhance their skills, deploy, and appreciate a generous petting or rubber toy in return.Academy military working dogs

  • Making an 'ImPACT': USAFA works to mitigate concussions

    More than 250,000 student athletes visit the emergency room every year with head injuries, and tens of thousands of service members are coping with brain injuries from concussions suffered in the line of duty.Both those groups will benefit from a $30 million collaborative study between the NCAA and

  • Natural resources manager works to keep the 'Fabric of the Academy'

    After 35 years as a U.S. forester, Academy natural resources manager Diane Strohm is no amateur when it comes to fire intelligence and forest protection. Strohm is from Vermont; she's been in charge of forest management and wild land fire prevention here for 10 years, managing forest thinning and

  • New ESET training to wrap up next week

    This summer, cadets here have been cycling through a new and improved Expeditionary Survival and Evasion Training requiring fewer hours in the classroom and more days in the field. Since May 31, roughly 1,000 sophomores have been participating in combat scenarios at Jacks Valley and across the