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Golden Eagles Navigate Pandemic in Quest to Defend 33-Year Regional Title
In a normal year, the Golden Eagles Flight Team would vet more than 100 students in weekly face-to-face meetings and social events, as part of a rigorous process to select its new members.…
Eagle Spotlight: Meet Your 2021 Brooke Owens Fellows
Two Embry-Riddle students, Zoe Brand and Katrina “Kat” Ternus, have been awarded prestigious Brooke Owens Fellowships, joining 42 other talented undergraduates who were…
Posted In: Engineering | Institutional News
Brazilian Student Survives Harrowing Covid Experience
João Ricardo de Oliveira, undergraduate student in Embry-Riddle’s Aviation Business Administration program, contracted Covid-19 last year and had to be hospitalized. He…
Posted In: Business | Institutional News
Pre-Recorded Virtual Commencements Planned for Spring 2021; Residential Campus Students Also Offered Stage-Walk Opportunities, in Full Regalia
For its spring 2021 commencements, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is taking a blended approach that preserves the best elements of traditional graduation ceremonies while also…
Posted In: Institutional News
Preventing Autonomous Vehicle Crashes: Eagle Researchers Search for Solutions
Embry-Riddle researchers are working on a solution to a significant safety problem involving semi-autonomous vehicles after crashes occurred when the vehicles did not detect firetrucks…
Posted In: Research | Unmanned Systems
It’s Electric! Four Years of Work Culminates in Aircraft Milestone
After nearly four years of perseverance, the Eagle Flight Research Center (EFRC) team at Embry-Riddle is celebrating a milestone in its electric propulsion research: its Diamond HK-36…
Posted In: Aviation | Engineering | Research
Army Vet, Mother of Three Reflects on Adversity, Goals
When Theresa Robinson, a sophomore in Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Technical Management program, was 19 years old, by her own description, she was “lost.”
“I…
Posted In: Business
Eagle Researchers Receive FAA Grants to Assure Drone Safety
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University researchers received four Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grants this month to assess risks and help develop safety protocols for unmanned…
Posted In: Aviation | Engineering | Research | Unmanned Systems
Rising Above Sickle Cell Anemia, Student Pursues Energy Innovations
Eagle senior Raymond Miller is not defined by his disease.
For years, he would avoid sharing information about his experience with sickle cell anemia with others, for fear that it would…
Posted In: Engineering
Cargo Executive: Industry is ‘Uniquely Positioned’ to Distribute Vaccines
The air cargo industry transports over $6 trillion worth of goods throughout the globe annually, accounting for approximately 35 percent of world trade by value — and according…
Posted In: Aviation | Institutional News
Embry-Riddle Alumna Helps Unravel Key Mysteries of Rare Stars
Within the constellation Cygnus, an elderly star and its massive companion are having one last hurrah, flinging off mass at an incredible rate before they explode as supernovae and…
Eagle Finds Family in African American Campus Community
Junior Jaacob Pledger always saw himself as an engineer. He thought like an engineer, started college at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in the Aerospace Engineering program. But…
Posted In: Applied Science
Students Attain New Heights With Wings Club Scholarship
Douglas Niemela has worked summers doing everything from logging in Alaska to working construction in Arizona and Montana to pursue his dream to become a pilot.
“I am a person who knows…
Eagle Rebuilds Her Life, Looks to the ‘Beauty’ of Numbers
Space Physics senior Sydni Bond never set out to be a role model. After all, she had struggles of her own to deal with. She’s been homeless more than once, lived in poverty, survived…
Posted In: Space
Eagle Fights for Equality through Engineering
Embry-Riddle Aerospace Engineering senior Maverick Thigpen believes in progress. As president of the Prescott Campus National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), that’s the goal…
Posted In: Engineering