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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.

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.

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.

On sky-blue letterhead, an eagle and globe encircle the words Embry-Riddle International School of Aviation.

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.