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As a young girl, Dr. Pragati Pradhan used to point out different planets and constellations in the night sky to her mother from their terrace in Darjeeling, India, high up in the Himalayas.

Researchers have developed a new way to accurately count and objectively analyze close encounters between drones and airplanes — without depending solely on pilot sightings.

Community leaders and elected officials on July 11 joined Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Dr. Anette Karlsson, chancellor of the Prescott, Arizona campus, in breaking ground for an advanced learning complex designed to prepare future innovation leaders.

Research led by Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Dr. Subhradeep Roy, which will use virtual reality (VR) technology while collecting data to better understand, quantify and model automobile driving behavior, has received a prestigious, five-year National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award of $557,000.

Annaelise Swanson, a rising senior at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University, is training ChatGPT, the scary-smart new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, to answer questions about aircraft, safety standards, services and more.

Embry‑Riddle researchers, led by Katariina Nykyri, have been awarded a total of $1.48 million in grants from NASA ($992,000) and the National Science Foundation (NSF: $485,000) to study space phenomena that can harm technological systems and even threaten human health.

Researchers at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University recently received $450,000 to participate in an Air Force Small Business Innovation Research project with ControlX Engineering. The goal: Optimize and test a space vehicle with a robotic arm capable of performing in-space servicing, assembly and manufacturing (ISAM) on spacecraft.

Research designed to improve the prevention and treatment of such infant joint disorders as hip dysplasia, led by Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Dr. Victor Huayamave, has received a prestigious, five-year award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early CAREER Development Program in the amount of $577,000.

Researchers in Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Space and Atmospheric Instrumentation Lab (SAIL) have been selected to receive a combined $2.25 million across two NASA grants.

Every summer, thunderstorms crop up with startling intensity across Northern Arizona’s rugged terrain, bringing driving rain, high winds, flooding and lightning. It’s all part of the North American monsoon, a seasonal increase in summer precipitation that occurs between June 15 and Sept. 30 each year.

More than 100 students from Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University gathered recently to present research to the campus community and compete for grant funding. Their topics of focus varied greatly, with the top two winning projects each focusing on very different areas of aviation.

On April 16, all eyes in the launch bunker were on Deneb, a rocket built and designed by nine undergraduate students from Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University.