Jamie Principato wants to ensure that blind students can excel in science and engineering careers. So the undergraduate is parlaying her own experience in designing and building space instruments to help them get the training they’ll need.
A newly discovered 18-square-mile salt flat (roughly the size of Boulder) likely represents the evaporated remains of one of the last potentially habitable surface lakes to exist on the Red Planet.
Heather Hava has astronomical gardening skills. The Boulder graduate student develops advanced fruit and vegetable gardening systems for use by astronauts on Martian and lunar outposts.