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It was a moment 11 years in the making — back when the Project Prometheus initiative launched in 2011 with the goal of making functional solid rocket fuel at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University — but the wait paid off last week when Engineering students successfully tested manmade fuel at the Daytona Beach Campus.

Just as a rock thrown into a pond creates an undulating pattern of circular ripples, some double star systems called binaries can push rings of dust into space as one star orbits around its partner, Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University astronomer Noel D. Richardson explains.

Dan Elwell, former FAA administrator and a pilot with more than 6,000 hours of civilian and military flight time, spoke to an engaged audience on Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach Campus last week, offering advice drawn from a varied and exciting career in aviation.

This Aviation Week op-ed describes efforts to advance aviation data analytics. Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University President P. Barry Butler, Ph.D., writes that the rapidly growing field has the potential to save lives and reduce accidents.

Students in Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Game Development Club took first place in the MeGa Health Jam, a weekend-long game development competition in Orlando, Florida, for a game they created that could help medical patients practice respiratory exercises.

As Hurricane Ian sliced a deadly path across Florida, everyone stayed safe at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach Campus, where facilities suffered relatively minor damage.

Meaningful, high-paying jobs for young people are the focus of a plan set forth on Sept. 27, 2022, by The Boeing Company and Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University.

Vince Taguba, a native of the Philippines who is studying Aeronautical Science at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott, Arizona, campus, always knew that he wanted to become a pilot.

As a student, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University alumna Rocio Frej Vitalle ('12) worked in the Eagle Flight Research Center, which helped land her first job modeling and simulating uncrewed flights for FAA NextGen projects.

The networking opportunities and financial assistance that Shaddi Abdala received as a Boeing Scholar at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University helped position the recent graduate right where she wants to be — in a two-year job-rotation program offered as an introduction to a full-time position at The Boeing Company.

Before Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University alumna Rebekah Francis (’21) became the first member of her family to graduate from college, the prospect of higher education seemed almost overwhelming.

As a first-generation college student, Marily Aguilar-Hernandez is pursuing some big dreams, not the least of which is becoming a commercial airline pilot.