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Crash test dummies have improved vehicle safety for decades, but one Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University sophomore is studying how to redesign them to better represent women.

Flexjet Chairman Kenn Ricci, his wife Pamela and their family have endowed two faculty chairs at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University focused on innovation in aviation, aerospace or space. Not only will the two gifts enable the university to address the industry’s most important innovation challenges, but the gifts will also attract top faculty talent and drive student innovation at Embry‑Riddle, the global leader in aviation and aerospace higher education.

For the past three years, Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University student Celso Ferreira de Moura has juggled his studies with on- and off-campus jobs to cover his expenses.

Nine Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University faculty members have been recognized for outstanding research and innovation through the university's Research Awards Program.

Researchers at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University and Brazil’s Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA) will combine forces on one of the main challenges of electric aircraft — controlling the heat spikes they generate at takeoff.

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has named three Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University faculty members to its 2026 Class of Associate Fellows — an honor recognizing their outstanding contributions to the field of aerospace.

In his latest Aviation Week essay, Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University President P. Barry Butler, Ph.D., highlights how cubesats have come to make space engineering and science accessible to a wide range of players through partnerships among commercial space companies, universities and NASA.

Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University student Whitney Melick’s dream to build and launch her own projects into space got closer to reality after attending the Space Trek Academy at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

Embry-Riddle's Rocket Development Lab team traveled to Midland, Texas, to compete in the International Rocket Engineering Competition, launching a student-built rocket and gaining hands-on experience in high-powered rocketry.