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Interns working at Embry-Riddle's Center for Aerospace Resilient Systems gained hands-on experience in aerospace cybersecurity - including demonstrating a flight simulator at the DEF CON security conference in Las Vegas.

Embry-Riddle set a new record at its Fall 2025 Student Research Symposium, with more than 240 posters and 600 student presenters participating across disciplines ranging from aerospace physiology to mechanical engineering.

Honeywell has donated an IntuVue RDR-7000 radar system to Embry-Riddle's Prescott Campus, giving meteorology students access to advanced weather-sensing technology used on commercial aircraft for research and training purposes.

Ph.D. student John M. Thompson has spent the last five years doing research at Embry‑Riddle’s College of Engineering, but this past summer he had the unique opportunity to collaborate on AI-based autonomous vehicle research in Istanbul, Turkey.

Undergraduates at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University are helping to improve mirrors that could allow scientists to listen for fainter, more distant cosmic collisions — such as merging black holes or colliding neutron stars.

Embry‑Riddle seniors Amanda Wills and Kailea Danielson attend different campuses and don’t share the same major, but they became fast friends when they both landed competitive Department of Defense summer internships on the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi.

Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University student Logan Schierholz was thrilled when he found out he was selected for a paid research internship studying space weather at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Research that could greatly improve space mission design efficiency and trajectory planning just got a boost from the National Science Foundation — in the form of a $200,000 Engineering Research Initiative (ERI) grant to Dr. David Canales of Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University.

When a NASA diver carried an Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University student team’s engineering device into Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, the moment was 10 months in the making.

Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University has established a new tradition of international engagement through its International Ambassador Program, which connects students, faculty and industry partners around the world and is quickly becoming a key part of the university’s commitment to global collaboration, innovation, research and academic excellence.

Five Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University Mechanical Engineering students were chosen for nationally competitive internships conducting research at world-class U.S. Department of Energy laboratories.

When the ESCAPADE mission blasts off toward Mars, instruments designed and built by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students will be on board — ready to probe the red planet’s atmosphere and uncover how solar storms and space weather impact it, thus helping to unravel Mars’ planetary evolution history and possibly paving the way for the first human explorers.