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Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University junior Ryann Jones won two first-place honors at a recent awards event for the Florida Association of Broadcast Journalists in the categories of Climate/Environmental Reporting and Weathercaster.

After more than 25 days of cross-country flying and competition, Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Golden Eagles Flight Team returned home to Prescott, Arizona — elated and victorious.

Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University has named alumnus Dr. Kelly M. Austin (’04) — a nationally recognized champion for students’ academic success — to serve as Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost.

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.

Aviation cybersecurity raises unique challenges in an ecosystem of competing stakeholders. Awareness, training and education of the current and future workforce are urgently needed. Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University is the sole National Science Foundation CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service institution in the nation tasked with addressing aviation cybersecurity.

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.

Amy Paglialunga (’23) fell in love with aviation when she was a little girl gazing up at paragliders flying over her house. Although she initially started working in property management, her passion for flight ultimately led her to become a flight attendant at GoJet Airlines and then to the Charlotte County Airport Authority, which manages the Punta Gorda Airport.

More than 1,600 graduating students from Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s two residential campuses rang in commencement day in style last week, with celebrations in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona.

Nearly 300 graduates from Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Worldwide Campus gathered April 28-29, 2023, to don their caps and gowns, walk the commencement stage and earn their diplomas.

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.

A scholarship established through Tailwinds of Hope, the Zachary Michael Capra Memorial Foundation, is an act of generosity that transforms the lives of flight students at Embry‑Riddle.