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TECH EARNS $260,000 ENVIRONMENTAL GRANT TO PROTECT CORAL
REEFS
3/4/05 Florida
Tech's Dr. Robert van Woesik, associate professor of biological
sciences, has secured $260,000 in Global Environmental
Fund/World Bank funds for coral reef research. Initially,
the grant will help to establish coral reef study sites in
Puerto Morelos, Mexico; Zanzibar; and Heron Island in the
Great Barrier Reef. MORE
FLORIDA
TECH SCIENTIST PARTICIPATES IN MARS EXPLORATION RESEARCH
2/14/05 Dr.
James Mantovani, Florida Tech assistant professor of physics
and space sciences, has received a $75,000 NASA grant
to work on an electrodynamic system for self-cleaning solar
panels and other surfaces that could be used on future space
exploration missions to Mars and the moon. He joins in this
research with the University of Arkansas, Appalachian State
University, Oklahoma Baptist University, MIT, NASA Kennedy
Space Center and NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland,
Ohio. MORE
F.W.
OLIN PHYSICAL SCIENCES BUILDING DEDICATION
1/29/05 On
Friday, Jan. 28, Florida Tech will dedicate its third building
funded by the F.W. Olin Foundation: the F.W. Olin Physical
Sciences Building. The 70,000-square-foot three-story teaching
and research facility is located next to the Olin-funded
Engineering Complex off University Blvd. It will house the
university's Department of Physics and Space Sciences and
Department of Chemistry. All dedication day events are free
and open to the public. MORE
FLORIDA
TECH PROFESSOR EARNS GRANT TO STUDY INFERTILITY
1/3/05 Dr.
David Carroll, Florida Tech assistant professor of biological
sciences, has earned a grant for $187,000 from the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) to research fertilization and
early development in the starfish. The grant is an NIH Academic
Research Enhancement Award. MORE
FLORIDA
TECH TO HAVE STATE'S LARGEST TELESCOPE
12/6/04 A
$150,000 gift by an anonymous Brevard County donor will enable
Florida Institute of Technology to construct the state's
largest telescope on top of the recently completed F.W. Olin
Physical Sciences Building. Construction on the 32-inch telescope
will begin in 2005 and is expected to take 18 months to complete.
Florida
Tech President Anthony J. Catanese said the new telescope is an indicator
of Florida Tech's continuing maturation as a nationally
renowned research university.
"Now, with the largest telescope in the state of Florida, our leadership position
in the Southern Astronomy Research Association, resources at Kitt Peak National
Observatory in Arizona, Florida Tech is uniquely positioned as a national leader
in astronomy and space sciences. As a university founded by scientists in America's
space program, it's important that our faculty and students continue to focus
their attention on the stars."
"It almost goes without saying that the generosity of this donor has opened new
worlds to our students and to the greater Brevard community," said Terry Oswalt,
Associate Dean for Research in the College
of Science and Liberal Arts. MORE
FLORIDA
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