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title: CSI In the News
layout: press
jumbotitle: "In the News"
jumboimage: "/assets/media/img/jumbotron/earthrise.jpg"
imagecredit: "Photo: NASA"

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abstracttext: Columbia Space Initiative in the media.

article:
  - title: "West Harlem community celebrates the reactivation of the Morningside Park waterfall at official unveiling"  
    publisher: "Columbia Spectator"
    date: "October 7 2024"
    author: "Tsehai Alfred & Skyler Gluck"
    excerpt: "After nearly seven years of inactivity, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Friends of Morningside Park, and Columbia University officially reactivated the Morningside Park waterfall on Friday morning."
    link: "https://www.columbiaspectator.com/city-news/2024/10/07/west-harlem-community-celebrates-the-reactivation-of-the-morningside-park-waterfall-at-official-unveiling/"
    image: "https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/spectator/NSVJBZX6GVBLBNJCLRFQMAJKZY.JPG"

  - title: "Congratulations to Columbia Space Initiative SUITS Team"  
    publisher: "Columbia"
    date: "August 7 2024"
    author: "Instagram"
    excerpt: "Columbia Space Initiative has done it yet again at this year's NASA SUITS challenge, tackling user interface solutions for future space missions! 🧑‍🚀🚀 Their innovative proposal, featuring an augmented reality interface for astronauts' Extra Vehicular Activities (EVA) on the moon and Mars, was accepted as this year’s challenge scenario!"
    link: "https://www.instagram.com/p/C-YBM3TJELi/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D"
    image: "/assets/media/img/posts/suits_summer_2024.jpg"

  - title: "Blast Off"  
    publisher: "Columbia News"
    date: "June 14 2024"
    author: "Press Office"
    excerpt: "Congratulations to Columbia Space Initiative's Rocketry team, which designed, built, and launched their hybrid rocket named PleaseGoHigher at the inaugural FAR-OUT competition in the Californian Mojave Desert."
    link: "https://news.columbia.edu/content/blast"
    image: "https://news.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/styles/cu_crop/public/content/2024/potw-20240614-rocketry-team-columbia.jpg?itok=6TE9WylS"

  - title: "Congratulations to Columbia Space Initiative Blue Skies Team"
    publisher: "Columbia"
    date: "June 11 2024"
    author: "Instagram"
    excerpt: "Congratulations to our Columbia Space Initiative team, who took second place at NASA’s Gateways to Blue Skies competition! 👏 The challenge aims to alleviate the effects of climate change, and this year’s competition asked teams to conceptualize an aviation-related system."
    link: "https://www.instagram.com/p/C8Fb_CIvYGy/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link"
    image: "/assets/media/img/posts/blueskies_summer_2024.jpg"
    
  - title: "Pioneer the Future with Columbia Electrical Engineering's Celebrity Clubs"
    publisher: "Columbia Engineering"
    date: "April 30 2024"
    author: "Electrical Engineering Department"
    excerpt: "Columbia Space Initiative is known to be one of the most ambitious clubs on campus. From launching rockets to 30,000 feet, to building a satellite to launch in 2027, to deploying an autonomous boat to monitor algae blooms in NYC waterways, to sending and tracking a balloon to the edge of space."
    link: "https://www.ee.columbia.edu/news/pioneer-future-columbia-electrical-engineerings-celebrity-clubs"
    image: "https://www.ee.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/styles/cu_crop/public/content/Screenshot%202024-04-30%20at%2016.25.50.jpg?itok=7FX2vCNm"

  - title: "[VIDEO] NASA EDGE: CubeSat Launch Initiative and the Mission Concepts Program"
    publisher: "NASA"
    date: "July 26 2023"
    author: "NASA Edge"
    excerpt: "In this episode of NASA EDGE, we’ll hear how NASA’s Cubesat Launch Initiative, the University Nanosatellite Program, and many others are working together to help students develop, build, launch and operate their own small satellites to conduct Lunar, search and rescue, and even biological missions."
    link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMO38qj92oQ&list=LL&index=13&t=304s"
    image: "https://i.ytimg.com/an_webp/HMO38qj92oQ/mqdefault_6s.webp?du=3000&sqp=CPTp-KcG&rs=AOn4CLA2TGDBprbrEYF72yFX6NGf6FOr2w"

  - title: "What a Blast!"
    publisher: "Columbia News"
    date: "July 7 2023"
    author: "Press Office"
    excerpt: "The Columbia Space Initiative Rocketry team designed, built, and launched a hybrid rocket in one year for the first time in Columbia history! This past week, 20 members of the CSI rockets team travelled to New Mexico, representing Columbia at Spaceport America Cup, the world's largest intercollegiate rocket competition."
    link: "https://news.columbia.edu/content/what-blast"
    image: "https://news.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/2023/potw-20230707-space-rocket-columbia.jpg"

  - title: "A Meet-and-Greet from the International Space Station "
    publisher: "Columbia Engineering"
    date: "May 18 2023"
    author: "Press Office"
    excerpt: "Talk about a long-distance call! Space enthusiasts from across Columbia’s campus filled the Altschul Auditorium on April 21 for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to video call the International Space Station (ISS). Led by the Columbia Space Initiative, the 90-minute event featured a Q-and-A with NASA astronaut Warren “Woody” Hoburg, who recently made his first expedition into space. Hoburg is currently on the ISS as part of NASA's Crew-6 mission."
    link: "https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/news/a-meet-and-greet-from-the-international-space-station"
    image: "https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/files/seas/styles/816x460/public/content/cs_image/2023/20/a-meet-and-great-from-the-international-space-station.jpg?itok=R69u6Gdq"

  - title: "AFRL, NASA partner with 8 universities for new Mission Concept Program"
    publisher: "The Air Force Research Laboratory"
    date: "May 12 2023"
    author: ""
    excerpt: "The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, and NASA announced their collaboration with eight universities for a new Mission Concept Program, or MCP, from Jan. 5 to Feb. 3, 2024."
    link: "https://www.afrl.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3384049/afrl-nasa-partner-with-8-universities-for-new-mission-concept-program/"
    image: "https://i.ytimg.com/an_webp/HMO38qj92oQ/mqdefault_6s.webp?du=3000&sqp=CPTp-KcG&rs=AOn4CLA2TGDBprbrEYF72yFX6NGf6FOr2w"

  - title: "Columbia University’s First Student-Organized Satellite Team Gets NASA Funding"
    publisher: "Columbia News Service"
    date: "Apr 27 2023"
    author: "Miho Ouyou"
    excerpt: "A Columbia University satellite team is poised to take off, thanks to funding from NASA. At the end of March, Columbia University’s satellite development team was chosen as one of the eight universities, including Harvard College and Saint Louis University, for nanosatellite flight opportunities by NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative. This is the first time Columbia University has been selected for the program."
    link: "https://columbianewsservice.com/2023/04/27/columbia-universitys-first-student-organized-satellite-team-gets-nasa-funding/"
    image: "https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/side_image/public/thumbnails/image/iss066e126343.jpg?itok=GlxqizNl"

  - title: "Columbia Space Initiative hosts live video call with Woody Hoburg, NASA astronaut currently stationed on the International Space Station"
    publisher: "Columbia Spectator"
    date: "Apr 24 2023"
    author: "John Towfighi"
    excerpt: "The Columbia Space Initiative hosted a live video call on Friday with NASA astronaut Warren “Woody” Hoburg, who is currently living and working onboard the International Space Station. Students gathered in the Frank Altschul Auditorium in the International Affairs Building to connect in real time with Hoburg, who orbits Earth at an altitude of around 250 miles."
    link: "https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2023/04/24/columbia-space-initiative-hosted-live-video-call-with-woody-hoburg-nasa-astronaut-currently-stationed-on-the-international-space-station/"
    image: "https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/spectator/CU6UMCMVYREBLOCPC3BWH7BZQI.jpg"

  - title: "Dispatches From The International Space Station With Astronaut Woody Hoburg"
    publisher: "Columbia BWOG"
    date: "Apr 23 2023"
    author: "Elizabeth Walker"
    excerpt: "This past Friday, the Columbia Space Initiative hosted a once-in-a-lifetime video call with Astronaut Woody Hoburg live from the International Space Station to discuss the future of space exploration and life in outer space."
    link: "https://bwog.com/2023/04/dispatches-from-the-international-space-station-with-astronaut-woody-hoburg/"
    image: "https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/spectator/CU6UMCMVYREBLOCPC3BWH7BZQI.jpg"

  - title: "Columbia in space: NASA to launch student-built satellite"
    publisher: "Columbia Spectator"
    date: "Apr 14 2023"
    author: "Lina Huang"
    excerpt: "NASA will launch the first satellite designed, built, and tested by Columbia students into orbit to survey the universe in the next few years. The satellite, a brainchild of Columbia Space Initiative and Columbia University Robotics Club, was accepted in late March to be launched by NASA."
    link: "https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2023/04/14/columbia-in-space-nasa-to-launch-student-built-satellite/"
    image: "https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/spectator/LW7IMU5Y5RGWXO6QSNPRO2FN7M.jpg"

  - title: "NASA Selects University Nanosatellite Program Summer Series Winners"
    publisher: "NASA Small Satellite Missions"
    date: "Apr 7 2023"
    author: "Danielle Sempsrott"
    excerpt: "NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) has partnered with the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force to select eight schools for the University Nanosatellite Program (UNP) Mission Concepts-1: 2023 Summer Series."
    link: "https://blogs.nasa.gov/smallsatellites/2023/04/07/nasa-selects-university-nanosatellite-program-summer-series-winners/"
    image: "https://blogs.nasa.gov/smallsatellites/wp-content/uploads/sites/339/2023/04/LightCube-2048x1542.jpg"

  - title: "NASA Announces Selection of Candidates for CubeSat Space Missions"
    publisher: "NASA"
    date: "Mar 30 2023"
    author: "Danielle Sempsrott"
    excerpt: "NASA has selected eight small research satellites across seven states to fly to space helping address aspects of the agency’s education, science, or technology development goals."
    link: "https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-announces-selection-of-candidates-for-cubesat-space-missions"
    image: "https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/_csli_14_selections_map-final_002.jpg?itok=_duGGMSd"

  - title: "Columbia Undergrads Launch Microbes into Space"
    publisher: "Columbia Engineering"
    date: "Dec 15 2021"
    author: "Press Office"
    excerpt: "One of five teams selected by NASA, the Columbia group will send bacteria to the International Space Station to understand how low gravity impacts germs"
    link: "https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/news/columbia-undergrads-launch-microbes-into-space"
    image: "https://columbiaspace.org/assets/media/img/spocs/2022cover.png"

  - title: "Experiments Riding 24th SpaceX Cargo Mission to Space Station Study Bioprinting, Crystallization, Laundry"
    publisher: "NASA"
    date: "Dec 7 2021"
    author: "Melissa Gaskill"
    excerpt: "The 24thSpaceX cargo resupply services mission, targeted to launch in late December from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carries scientific research and technology demonstrations to the International Space Station. The experiments aboard include studies of bioprinting, crystallization of monoclonal antibodies, changes in immune function, plant gene expression changes, laundering clothes in space, processing alloys, and student citizen science projects."
    link: "https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/spacex-24-research-highlights"
    image: "https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/side_image/public/thumbnails/image/05_nanoracks_box_and_housing_sm.jpg"

  - title: "From A(stronomy) to Z(ines), Columbia Has a Club for You"
    publisher: "Columbia News"
    date: "Aug 25 2021"
    author: "Kim Martineau"
    excerpt: "Columbia is home to an astonishing number of student clubs—more than 500 by our count. Whether baseball stats or tap dance is your jam, there’s a community here that shares your passion. Check out the offerings on Columbia Spectator’s new LionClubs website, LionLink, or Columbia undergraduate admissions site. Here are a few of the clubs that caught our eye."
    link: "https://news.columbia.edu/news/astronomy-zines-columbia-has-club-you"
    image: "https://news.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/styles/cu_crop/public/content/2021/roaree_in_space.jpg?itok=GB2QpnUN"

  - title: "Five University Teams Prepare to Liftoff with NASA’s Student Payload Opportunity With Citizen Science"
    publisher: "NASA"
    date: "Apr 27 2021"
    author: "Sarah B. Smith"
    excerpt: "For the past year, students from five universities across the United States have been working to ready payloads for launch in late 2021 as a part of Student Payload Opportunity with Citizen Science (SPOCS)."
    link: "https://www.nasa.gov/stem/feature/five-university-teams-prepare-to-liftoff-with-spocs"
    image: "https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/edu_spocs_students_prepare_to_liftoff-1.jpg"

  - title: "Columbia Space Initiative Selected to Send Payload to Space Station"
    publisher: "Columbia Engineering Magazine"
    date: "Jan 12 2021"
    author: "Jane Sims"
    excerpt: "Columbia Engineering is proud to announce that the Columbia Space Initiative (CSI) student club will send a payload to the International Space Station (ISS) this year, as one of five teams selected nationwide to participate in the NASA STEM on Station initiative."
    link: "https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/news/columbia-space-initiative-send-payload-to-space-station"
    image: "https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/files/seas/styles/816x460/public/content/cs_image/2021/02/z-team-816.png?itok=vQaV4KWd"

  - title: "Ideas Taking Flight"
    publisher: "Columbia Engineering Magazine"
    date: "Apr 18 2018"
    author: "Jesse Adams"
    excerpt: "One breezy Saturday in late January, John Pederson '19SEAS and Lily Zhao '19SEAS met up with friends from the Columbia Space Initiative (CSI) and the Society of Women Engineers for a special mission. Their objective: to set aloft a giant black balloon"
    link: "https://magazine.engineering.columbia.edu/spring-2018/ideas-taking-flight"
    image: "https://magazine.engineering.columbia.edu/files/seas/styles/816x460/public/content/cs_image/2018/19/aereosole.jpg?itok=kMOtOpwf"

  - title: "Columbians Reach for the Final Frontier"
    publisher: "Columbia Engineering Magazine"
    date: "Apr 13 2018"
    author: "Jesse Adams"
    excerpt: "In just five semesters since launching the Columbia Space Initiative, students have invented futuristic technologies, won NASA competitions, and sent craft up to the stratosphere, all to help humanity explore the cosmos"
    link: "https://engineering.columbia.edu/news/csi-spaceposium"
    image: "https://engineering.columbia.edu/files/seas/content/alma_render.png"

  - title: "ClubHop: Columbia Space Initiative"
    publisher: "Columbia Bwog"
    date: "Mar 09 2018"
    author: "Alex Tang"
    excerpt: "Once thought impossible, space exploration is a definite reality of our present time, with initiatives such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX (goal to settle Mars) and NASA’s ongoing investigations into life outside of Earth. Columbia Space Initiative represents an eclectic group of individuals"
    link: "https://bwog.com/2018/03/clubhop-columbia-space-initiative/"
    image: "https://bwog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/space.jpg"

  - title: "Columbia Space Initiative Team Wins NASA Advanced Air Vehicles Challenge"
    publisher: "Columbia Engineering Magazine"
    date: "Sep 11 2017"
    author: "Jesse Adams"
    excerpt: "A multidisciplinary team from the Columbia Space Initiative took first place at NASA’s Langley Advanced Air Vehicles Challenge with their design of a sleek and sustainable type of plane. Called the Gryphon, their aircraft incorporates a highly aerodynamic"
    link: "https://engineering.columbia.edu/news/space-initiative-nasa-advanced-air-challenge"
    image: "https://engineering.columbia.edu/files/seas/styles/816x460/public/content/cs_image/2017/37/elongordon_vehicle.jpg.jpg?itok=IZSuiirX"

  - title: "Team Space: Columbia Space Initiative Takes Engineering to Extreme New Places"
    publisher: "Columbia Engineering Magazine"
    date: "Jun 21 2017"
    author: "Jennifer Ernst Beaudry"
    excerpt: "Columbia Space Initiative (CSI), one of Columbia’s newest student clubs dedicated to all things space and space tech, is less than a year old, but it’s already seen success: The group presented a design for an asteroid anchor at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy
      Laboratory and competed"
    link: "https://magazine.engineering.columbia.edu/fall20016/team-space-columbia-space-initiative"
    image: "https://magazine.engineering.columbia.edu/files/seas/styles/816x460/public/content/cs_image/2017/25/csi-01.jpg?itok=5GlXsWFA"

  - title: "Columbia's cosmos: CU in Space exhibits student projects that intersect art and astronomy"
    publisher: "Columbia Spectator"
    date: "Apr 9 2017"
    author: "Baily Nordin"
    excerpt: "The gray stone walls of Lerner Hall’s Broadway Room are not always lined with astrophotography and meter-wide scientific reports on the properties of dark matter. But at last Friday evening’s 'CU in Space' exhibition"
    link: "https://www.columbiaspectator.com/arts-and-entertainment/2017/04/06/columbias-cosmos-cu-in-space-exhibits-student-projects-that-intersect-art-and-astronomy/"
    image: "https://arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-spectator.s3.amazonaws.com/public/KIJNACD5HFHDZFJZWPKORK32YY"
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