University News

From working as a military and commercial airline pilot to heading up safety programs at airlines in Australia and Canada, Billy Nolen ('07) has had a varied and eventful career in aviation.

Entrepreneur, Polaris Dawn Commander and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University alumnus Jared Isaacman ('11), who last year led the first-ever all-civilian space mission, visited Embry-Riddle's Daytona Beach Campus to meet the next generation of aviators.

In an industry where only 2.5% of all aviation maintenance technicians in the U.S. are women and 4.6% are Airline Transport Pilots, Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University welcomed five trailblazing alumnae who are role models for women in aviation.

Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University reported 14 new cases of Covid-19 over the past week, April 8-14, 2022.

Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. student Nicholas Zhu, who is researching experimental aerodynamics in Embry-Riddle's subsonic wind tunnel, was awarded a Vertical Flight Foundation Scholarship.

The event’s primary mission — to help students transition “from student to CEO” — is one that’s shared with Embry‑Riddle’s David B. O’Maley College of Business year-round,

Dr. Paul Bevilaqua, who, as the chief engineer of Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, helped invent the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in 2001, recently visited Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University and shared advice with aspiring engineers as he recounted the story of how the aircraft system was developed.

While raising three children and finishing her Ph.D., Jennah Perry, an associate professor and chair of the Applied Aviation Sciences department at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s campus in Prescott, Arizona, decided to take the Aviation Stress Management course that she had launched several years ago.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University reported 14 new COVID-19 cases from April 1-7, 2022, which includes 10 new cases at Embry-Riddle's Daytona Beach, Florida, campus and four at the Prescott, Arizona, campus.

Embry-Riddle officials joined Brazilian aviation leaders for an April 1 graduation ceremony celebrating 40 students completing the Aviation Management Program from cohorts of 2020 and 2021.

Taylor Schaffer, academic advisor for Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Worldwide Campus, has always known master’s degree candidate Deng Pour was a great student. Extremely motivated, Pour has been working a full-time course load in order to finish this fall, while also serving as a master sergeant in the Air Force and raising a family.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University senior Olivia Siu won first place in the undergraduate Brain and Behavior category of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS) annual poster session.