University News

A group of students from across Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s three campuses was recently chosen as one of only 15 teams from around the world to present space innovations at NASA’s annual Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition.

NASA’s Artemis program, which will send humans to the moon for the first time since the Apollo days, will land the first woman and the first person of color onto the lunar surface, equipping them with innovative technologies to explore and discover more than any astronaut has before. But NASA won’t do it alone.

Six Embry‑Riddle students have been selected this year to receive Gilman Scholarships, which will fund opportunities for them to study internationally.

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.

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.

For recent Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University graduate Hannah Hodge, scholarship funding is a game-changer.

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.

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.

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.

Ryan Kinzie, an Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University doctoral student, has been selected as a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Fellow, a recognition that comes paired with an $84,000 grant, which can be renewed for up to four years, plus a yearly stipend.

Aerospace Engineering student Spencer John has translated his lifelong love of space into a significant accomplishment: publishing a paper in an academic journal as an undergraduate student.

Aerospace Engineering students Alex Clay and Samir Ahmed have spent the past four years at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University manufacturing complex liquid-propellant rocket engines. Now, as they near graduation, there is one last thing they’d like to do: Prepare for ignition.