University News

Growing up in a military family, Jeremy Bailey knew at a young age that he wanted to work in aviation.

The leadership of Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University is pleased to announce that Dr. Jeremy V. Ernst, an accomplished professor in the College of Arts and Sciences as well as currently the associate chancellor for research for the Embry‑Riddle Worldwide Campus, has accepted the position of vice president for research and doctoral programs at the university.

Embry‑Riddle partnered with StarterStudio to relaunch the accelerator program earlier this year, after a pandemic-caused hiatus.

An all-women team from Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Worldwide Campus in Singapore won the Creativity Prize in a nationwide competition by designing an autonomous food delivery system involving robots, cameras, pulsed laser LiDAR sensing and a geospatial navigation and positioning system.

The recent release of never-before-seen imagery from the James Webb Space Telescope — which featured glimpses of colliding galaxies and nebulas up to 13 billion light years away — was a huge deal.

University study abroad programs were all but leveled by the Covid-19 pandemic, which caused them to vastly reduce their offerings or halt international travel altogether for the past two years.

Cyber Intelligence and Security (CSP) senior William Noujaim, one of five students at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University's Prescott Campus who recently won full-ride funding from the Department of Defense (DoD) Cybersecurity Scholarship program, said he was in a complete state of shock when he got the news of his award.

Just as the ocean’s surface can be calm and glassy or churning big waves, a moody portion of space called the ionosphere can smoothly reflect communication signals or bounce them into oblivion.

To help jump-start a thriving innovation corridor offering high-quality, high-paying job opportunities in Volusia County, Florida, Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University has partnered with StarterStudio to relaunch its successful business accelerator program.

Researchers at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University recently received a $371,000 grant from the Federal Aviation Administration to study the detection systems of uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), or drones, to improve the safety of their operation.

An Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University doctoral student conducting highly specialized aerospace engineering research, John Zelina tried to keep an open mind when it came to choosing his future career field.

In a first, an uncrewed aircraft system, or drone, operated by an Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University team has begun searching for threatened and endangered sea turtles beyond visual sight lines.