Embry-Riddle Earns $2.25 Million in NASA Funding to Build New Space Instruments and Conduct Space Weather Research
Researchers in Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Space and Atmospheric Instrumentation Lab (SAIL) have been selected to receive a combined $2.25 million across two NASA grants.
The…
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Embry-Riddle Researchers Use Machine Learning to Tackle Monsoon Season
Every summer, thunderstorms crop up with startling intensity across Northern Arizona’s rugged terrain, bringing driving rain, high winds, flooding and lightning. It’s all…
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Research on Pilot Mental Health, Drone Swarms Top Student Showcase
More than 100 students from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University gathered recently to present research to the campus community and compete for grant funding. Their topics of focus varied…
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Embry-Riddle Undergrads Test-Launch New Instruments from Hurricane Hunter Plane
Late last month, two Meteorology undergraduates from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University experienced a rare research opportunity. Invited to fly on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
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Innovations in E-Flight, Mobile Farm Monitoring and Soundscape Navigation Top Embry-Riddle Business Competition
Travis Ludlow, an Electrical Engineering student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, became the youngest person to fly solo around the world in 2021, completing the trip in 43…
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How AI Can Improve Your Travel Experience
A student researcher at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is using a kind of artificial intelligence (AI) called Physics-Informed Machine Learning to improve the forecasting of adverse…
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Eagle Ingenuity to Bring Clean Water to the Dominican Republic This Summer
Engineering students Marcella Smith and Cassidy Searles were preparing to travel to Haiti in 2020 to help install a solar-powered water purification system in a community in need of…
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Professor Named U.S. Fulbright Scholar, to Study Climate Change in Norway
Visiting Norway — exploring its nature and culture, maybe seeing the aurora borealis — has always been at the tip-top of Dr. Shawn Milrad’s bucket list. Now, as a…
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EPA to Get First Look at Eagle Research That Monitors Air Quality Using Drones
How can uncrewed aircraft systems, or drones, help improve air quality?
That is the subject of ongoing research at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, which recently was awarded a…
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Speedway Project Promises Insights Into Heart Disease, Space Travel, More
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally, killing an estimated 17.9 million people each year. To combat this trend, researchers at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University…
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Machine Learning of Binary ‘Yes/No’ Systems May Improve Medical Diagnoses, Financial Risk Analysis, More
Similar to a mouse racing through a maze, making “yes” or “no” decisions at every intersection, researchers have developed a way for machines to swiftly learn…
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Hurricane Hunter Hopes to Improve Storm Forecasting
As Hurricane Ian churned toward Florida’s southwestern coast, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University meteorologist Josh Wadler joined National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…
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New $670,000 Federal Grant to Help Eagle Researchers Take on Fusion Energy Generation
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University researchers are working on technology that could make fusion power generation economically viable, thanks to a $670,000 grant from the U.S. Department…
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Eagle Named to Aviation Week’s 20 Twenties Sends Message of Hope to Women in STEM
Grace Robertson has always been one of the few women in the room throughout her training to become a space industry worker — and that makes sense, considering that women represent…
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Concussion-Detecting Helmets, 3D Printing Software Among Innovations Presented at Eagle Startup Showcase
The first commercially available suborbital balloon technology, sensors embedded in sports helmets that can detect concussions in real time and design/simulation software for 3D printing…
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