This Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we’re highlighting people whose contributions have often been overlooked. Tonight, we explore the legacy of Kalpana Chawla, the first American ...

Kalpana Chawla was an Indian-born woman who became the first Indian American astronaut and the first Indian woman in space. Unfortunately she was among the seven crew members who perished on the Space ...

May 27, 2021 — This edition of 'Spotlight on Asian Pacific Americans' features Kalpana Chawla, an Indian-American astronaut and the first woman of Asian origin to go to space. This session will ...

Kalpana Chawla, born on March 17, 1962, was the first Indian woman to travel to space twice. Tragically, she lost her life in the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster in February 2003. Despite her untimely ...

Feb. 1, 2003 -- Kalpana Chawla was a national heroine in India. Her official NASA portrait graced the cover of a leading Indian news magazine, which voted her the most well-known among millions of ...

Nathan Seidle could be a poster child for the start-up era. In 2003, as a CU Boulder engineering student, he opened a one-man business reselling hard-to-find circuit boards from Eastern Europe. That ...

It didn’t take David Wolf long to start repaying the debt he felt to CU Boulder: In 2001, just after graduating with law and MBA degrees, he established a scholarship at the Leeds School of Business.