University News

Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University students are designing a rocket that can soar through the Earth’s atmosphere and reach outer space, only to be recovered through a parachute system for reuse. The project’s aim is to make spaceflight more affordable to researchers — especially student researchers and those working in higher education.

Aviation executives Dent Thompson and William Lovett (’91) were never interested in the status quo. Instead, they sought a career with global impact — one that relies on innovation and where each day is different.

For Michelle Tabor, it feels like mere months ago that she barely knew a thing about airplanes. But now, the 17-year-old Dual Enrollment student, who is on track to earn her associate’s degree from Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Worldwide Campus before the end of the year, has 125 hours of flight time and just recently earned her private pilot’s license. Her passion for flying has made the time flash by.

The Air Transport Research Society (ATRS) and Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical Universityannounced the winning airports for the 2022 ATRS Global Airport Efficiency Awards during the 24th ATRS World Conference hosted by the University of Antwerp and Antwerp Management School on Aug. 24-27, 2022.

From coast to coast, flight teams from Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University set the bar at the recent 2022 National Intercollegiate Flying Association (NIFA) SAFECON regional competitions, winning first place in each of their respective regions.

Debilitating nerve and joint pain from a severe back injury have been part of life for Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University junior Keri Weaver for years now, but she has never lost sight of her goal to complete her degree.

In spite of around-the-clock news coverage that communicated updated forecasts from the National Hurricane Center (NHC), the intensity of Hurricane Ian and Hurricane Nicole, both of which tore through Florida recently, causing severe property damage and flooding throughout the state, was underestimated by many residents before the storms made landfall.

Yesterday, Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University announced that classes on its Daytona Beach, Florida, campus would be canceled beginning at noon today, Nov. 9, through Thursday, Nov. 10, as Tropical Storm Nicole impacts our area. (This Friday, Nov. 11, is the Veterans Day holiday.)

Calvin Freeman II, an Aviation Business Administration senior on an accelerated MBA track, recently moderated a Presidential Speaker Series event with former FAA chair Dan Elwell. That discussion was just one of many things Freeman has led since the start of his time at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University.

When an animal’s life is at stake, every second counts. Nowhere is this felt more keenly than southern Africa’s game reserves, where increasingly sophisticated poaching squads are decimating elephant and rhino populations on a daily basis.

Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University was selected to participate in a national effort to bolster the engineering workforce, receiving a grant of $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to provide STEM scholarships to students in accelerated bachelor’s-plus-master’s degree programs.

Two Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University Aerospace Engineering faculty members were the co-authors on a publication that won an award for the Best Paper at the 2nd International Conference on Applied Intelligence and Informatics (AII2022) conference, held in Reggio Calabria, Italy.