This Monday, August 24, Nicole Stott ('87, DB) is scheduled to become the sixth female astronaut to spend a prolonged period of time in space, as she joins the seven-passenger crew aboard Discovery to the International Space Station (ISS) during STS-128. In addition to walking in space, she'll release and collect materials for various scientific experiments, as well as help assemble the COLBERT treadmill.

After 13 days, the space shuttle will return home but Stott will not be on board. Instead, she will remain on the ISS for four months as an Expedition 20 flight engineer - part of the largest international space crew ever. The crew will live in an orbiting laboratory while working to determine how to best use new technologies for long-term missions.

Read more about this mission as NASA agency officials discuss Discovery launch. And, read about how Stott is a "Mom On a Mission to Space," from the Houston Chronicle.

Eligible military veterans with a passion for aviation, aerospace, and related industries will be able to attend Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University beginning in Fall 2009, with virtually no financial burden, the University announced today.

Interested veterans can choose from more than 30 undergraduate and graduate degree programs ranging from global intelligence studies, aeronautical science (professional pilot), business, and aerospace engineering to space physics, meteorology, and air traffic management offered by Embry-Riddle at its two residential campuses based in Daytona Beach, Fla., or Prescott, Ariz., as well as its Worldwide campus centers or online in the United States. Read more.

Alumni and Friends Celebrate at Annual Oshkosh 2009

The weather was overcast and rainy but the spirits were high as some 100 alumni attended the Alumni Association Luncheon on Thursday, July 30, at Airventure Oshkosh 2009 in Oshkosh, Wis. It was held in a new location this year, the Nature Center Pavilion, which allowed for shelter from the day’s weather.

Alumni Relations Executive Director, Michele Berg, emceed the event by beginning festivities with an introduction for President Johnson. Dr. Johnson spoke briefly about current events at the university and announced the new Ph.D. programs in Aviation and Engineering Physics, as well as the addition of a High-Altitude Normobaric Laboratory built on the Daytona Beach campus. Read more.

View Photo Album from Oshkosh Alumni Luncheon.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students and alumni gain practical knowledge and hands-on experience in the areas of engineering, computer-related programs, homeland security, logistics, safety, meteorology, communications, human factors, air traffic control, flight and aviation maintenance/avionics. We invite organizations, both employers and graduate schools, to attend our annual event for full-time, co-op/internship and graduate school recruitment.

Please visit http://www.erau.edu/career/expo/index.html to register for the Industry/Career Expo. If you have any questions, please contact (386) 226-6054 or careers@erau.edu.

Embry-Riddle scientist Dr. Katariina Nykyri has received the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for junior faculty members, the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant, to support her continuing research into space plasma that may improve our understanding of plasma heating and transport through magnetic boundaries.

Dr. Nykyri, an assistant professor in the Physical Sciences Dept. at Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach campus, will receive $483,699 over the next five years from the NSF award program that encourages the activities of teacher-scholars who are judged likely to become leaders in academic research and education.

“Katariina is one of the brightest young stars in our Engineering Physics degree program and a role model to female physics students,” said Dr. Christina Frederick-Recascino, vice president of research at Embry-Riddle. “We’re proud to say that she’s the third professor at our Daytona Beach campus to receive the highly competitive NSF CAREER Award in the last four years. The NSF is clearly impressed by the research capabilities of our faculty, our students, and our state-of-the-art facilities.” Read more.

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