MELBOURNE, FLA. –Florida Institute of Technology Ph.D. candidate Lorian Schweikert, Biological Sciences Department, was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship for $126,000 for her proposal, “Adaptive Plasticity of the Retina in Response to Environmental Cues.
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Ph.D. Student Receives Almost $130,000 from Sigma Xi Grant and NSF Fellowship
05/16/2013
Marine Biology Student Receives Scholarship Award
05/09/2013
MELBOURNE, FLA.—Florida Institute of Technology student and marine biology major Allison Randolph received the Dr. Kerry Bruce Clark Endowed Scholarship in Marine Biology. Randolph, a junior, was publicly recognized on April 11 during the Honors Convocation in the Gleason Performing Arts Center on campus.
Full ArticleFlorida Tech Ph.D. Students Receive Prestigious Scholarship for Women
04/25/2013
MELBOURNE, FLA.—Florida Institute of Technology Ph.D. candidates Holly Sweat, Department of Marine and Environmental Systems (DMES), and Lorian Schweikert, Biological Sciences Department, recently received the merit-based and competitive 2013-2014 Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO) Scholar Award.
Full ArticleCommunity Invited to Cancer Medicine Seminar April 18
04/15/2013
MELBOURNE, FLA. — Lincoln Stein, M.D., Ph.D., director of The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, will present “Towards Personalized Cancer Medicine” from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in the Olin Life Sciences Building Room 130 at Florida Institute of Technology.
Full Article$405,000 Grant Funds Florida Tech Investigation of Pleistocene Large Mammal Collapse
03/18/2013
MELBOURNE, FLA.—A National Science Foundation grant of $405,000 will fund Florida Institute of Technology Professor of Biological Science Mark Bush and graduate students on summer field research explorations to Brazil, Peru, and Panama over the next three years.
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