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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University – Worldwide, home to the university’s premier online programs and locations across the globe, honored its 100,000th graduate at a recent commencement ceremony aboard the USS Midway Museum in San Diego.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University provided a cybersecurity course to aviation and defense professionals at Gulf Air’s Gulf Air Academy (GAA) Training Center in Bahrain, marking the university's first training at the center in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Three Embry-Riddle students – Adam Mouradi, Joshua Hendrickson and Saarang Sivakumar – were awarded highly competitive State Department scholarships that provide up to $5,000 to U.S. students looking to study or intern abroad.

As exceptionally powerful ejections of magnetically charged plasma from the sun called coronal mass ejections (CMEs) blasted toward Earth in May 2024, two NASA spacecraft formations detected never-before-witnessed solar storm activity. Now, in newly published research, Dr. Katariina Nykyri of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has used the data to analyze and describe explosive releases of magnetic energy and high-energy particle bursts occurring along the boundaries of incoming CMEs very close to Earth.

Governor Ron DeSantis highlighted Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s new partnership with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to advance research on emerging transportation technology.

Mechanical Engineering students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University are gaining hands-on experience with a Tesla Powerwall, a compact battery system for storing solar or grid energy.

More than 90 students presented 58 research projects at Embry-Riddle’s second annual Summer Research Symposium. Held at the Mori Hosseini Student Union, the event featured work by students who collaborated with faculty mentors on a broad range of advanced research.

Gregory Zahornacky, an assistant professor of Aeronautical Science at Embry-Riddle, has been honored by the Federal Aviation Administration with the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award, a distinction afforded to few aviators.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded Embry-Riddle a nearly $500,000 grant to continue hosting its Research Experiences for Undergraduates program on Cybersecurity Research of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. The grant runs for the next three years.

Embry-Riddle’s Aviation Maintenance Technology (AMT) SkillBridge program celebrated its 1,000th graduate at a ceremony held July 31 at the program’s inaugural site, Marine Corps Air Station New River in North Carolina.

Two Embry-Riddle teams navigated 2,700 miles across ten states for the 49th Air Race Classic. The two Prescott Campus teams, known collectively as the Whiskey Row Racers, finished among the top five in the race’s collegiate division.

Mechanical Engineering students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University teamed up to retrofit a fixed-wing drone with a hydrogen fuel cell system — a technically complex and ambitious undertaking.