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While emphasizing Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s strengths and bright prospects for the future, President P. Barry Butler also encouraged teamwork by all faculty and staff, particularly to help increase student retention, during a “State of the University” address on the Daytona Beach, Fla., campus.

The U.S. Air Force and commercial airlines have distinct missions, but both share a similar problem – a pilot shortage. The U.S. military is taking a hard look at how to produce and retain pilots and is working with industry, educational institutions and others to combat this growing concern.

The moon will eclipse the sun and tiny crescent-moon shapes will be projected onto shadowy areas under many trees on Monday, Aug. 21. The first total solar eclipse to cross the United States since 1776 will reach its maximum at 10:32 a.m. on Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott, Ariz., campus and at 2:50 p.m. on the Daytona Beach, Fla., campus.

More than 100 aviation leaders from the U.S. and abroad are gathered at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach Campus this week for the 30th year of the National Training Aircraft Symposium (NTAS), an annual conference for academic and industry leaders.

A recent collaboration between Mexico’s CETYS University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Worldwide Campus will not only strengthen the Baja California-based university’s master's program in Engineering and Innovation but also establish a series of courses specifically addressing the needs and interests of the fast-growing aerospace industry in Mexico.

Registration Still Open for Daily Competition Pitting Unmanned Pilots Against Each Other 

Over the next decade, humans may have more opportunities to explore space than ever before. Earlier this year, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled an ambitious plan to fly two space tourists around in the moon in 2018. Virgin Galactic is also offering seats on its human spaceflight vehicles for $250,000 a person for future suborbital flights.

For the seventh straight year, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has been selected as one of the Great Colleges to Work For by The Chronicle of Higher Education, the nation’s most respected publication covering colleges and universities.

Embry-Riddle alumnus Joshua Kutryk is one of the Canadian Space Agency’s newest astronauts.

Joseph Scanlan loved computers growing up. He built a few of his own, spent time in dedicated IT courses while in high school and even had plans to study computer science at the University of Minnesota. Instead, Scanlan enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. After five years of service, he’s rediscovered his love of computers thanks to the Microsoft Software & Systems Academy (MSSA).

Partnership Provides Path for Flight Students at Nashville Flight Training to Receive a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics Degree Needed for Commercial Pilot Career; Addresses National Pilot Shortage

This year’s Paris Air Show was the venue for the launch of a unique new master’s degree program in Aerospace Engineering, as Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Worldwide Campus has made the University of Salford its first United Kingdom (U.K.) higher education partner.