{"id":102693,"date":"2025-07-29T18:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T18:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/102693\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T18:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T18:07:08","slug":"embry-riddle-students-share-research-with-community-at-museum-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/102693\/","title":{"rendered":"Embry-Riddle Students Share Research With Community at Museum Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 70 students shared their research with the Daytona Beach community at the inaugural Embry-Riddle Undergraduate Research Showcase at the Museum of Arts and Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a big effort to bring more engagement over the summer and to showcase to the public what Embry-Riddle is doing,\u201d said Dr. Mihhail Berezovski, director of the Office of Undergraduate Research<\/a> (OUR) and associate professor of Mathematics.<\/p>\n

Aerospace Physiology student Riley Dienna wore her Jurassic Park t-shirt and dinosaur-themed Converse shoes to present her research, which involves genetic engineering, at the event. Working in the Omics Lab for Health and Human Performance<\/a>, Dienna said her research involves genetically engineering human monocyte cells to fight fungal pathogens more effectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very passionate about sharing science,\u201d said Dienna. \u201cAnd I\u2019ve enjoyed hearing perspectives from the community and other fields at this event.\u201d<\/p>\n

Volusia County residents and tourists visiting the museum mingled with students explaining their research. The public event, held July 19, featured 44 research poster presentations by students engaged in summer research at the university.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis event is wonderful,\u201d said Carol Van Ryn, a Daytona Beach resident who attended the research showcase. \u201cThese students really nailed it. They\u2019re thinking outside the box.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some students received Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF) grants from the university\u2019s Office of Undergraduate Research, while other students were participants in an intensive 10-week Interdisciplinary Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program at Embry\u2011Riddle\u2019s Daytona Beach Campus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dr. Laxima Niure Kandel, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science<\/a>, is leading a National Science Foundation-funded REU focusing on Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAV) cybersecurity research this summer. Several of her students presented at the event. The undergraduate students, chosen from around the country, are spending 10 weeks working full-time on individual cybersecurity research projects at Embry-Riddle.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a great event,\u201d said Kandel. \u201cI think one of the most important skills students get is explaining complex ideas in plain language that everyone understands.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students Gain Experience Presenting on the Public Stage<\/p>\n

Worldwide Campus student Ryan Gilbert came all the way to Daytona Beach from his home in Texas to share his research on behalf of his multi-campus team.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very grateful to be here for this opportunity,\u201d said Gilbert, who is pursuing his Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology<\/a>. \u201cIt has been a collaborative effort, and I\u2019m proud to represent my team on this research.\u201d<\/p>\n

Theevent was the first time he presented his project, which was a collaborative effort with faculty and students from the Worldwide, Daytona Beach and Prescott campuses. The research, which uses data from NASA, uses applied machine learning and astrophysical modeling to classify and analyze variability in Wolf-Rayet stars.<\/p>\n

Gilbert worked on the project with students Kassidy B. Myers from the Daytona Beach Campus and Anthony James Fabrega, William Punches and Bailey Wolf from the Prescott Campus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all had different roles. I developed machine learning algorithms,\u201d said Gilbert, who was the student lead on the project. \u201cZoom meetings are mainly how we met.\u201d<\/p>\n

The project\u2019s faculty mentors included Dr. Saida Caballero-Nieves from the Daytona Beach Campus, Dr. Noel D. Richardson from the Prescott Campus and Dr. Christina Reynolds from the Worldwide Campus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Reynolds is one of the reasons I love Embry-Riddle so much,\u201d said Gilbert. \u201cShe was my physics teacher and invited me to assist on this project.\u201d<\/p>\n

Timothy Van Ryn, a sophomore Honors Program<\/a> student majoring in Engineering Physics<\/a>, said he was excited to present his research publicly for the first time. His project, dubbed COSMOS, strives to create an optical communication system that can be used in ground station-to-satellite communication and message encryption.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s exhilarating,\u201d he said. \u201cI believe deeply in applied physics, and it\u2019s been very rewarding to share my research with people. I\u2019ve also learned how to present myself and be more professional.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Bereket Berhane, associate professor and associate chair of the Department of Physical Sciences, is Van Ryn\u2019s mentor. Berhane believes the research showcase benefits students in several ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt lets them gain confidence, especially for students like Tim who want to continue doing research,\u201d said Berhane. \u201cAdditionally, it helps them communicate the benefits of their research to the community in a way that the public can understand it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 70 students shared their research with the Daytona Beach community at the inaugural Embry-Riddle Undergraduate Research…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":102694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[815,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-102693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-genetics","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114937859002247010","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}