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2013 Boston & NY Alumni Receptions

2013 Boston & NY Alumni Receptions

The weather in May was certainly unpredictable, but it didn’t stop fellow alumni and prospective students from joining us for a night of networking. Guests braved the rainy weather in both Boston and New York to [...]

Coach Englehart Talks Football

Coach Englehart Talks Football

  Check out the videos below for the Alumni House interview with Coach Englehart. Coach Englehart interview pt. 1 Coach Englehart interview pt. 2 Coach Englehart interview pt. 3 Coach Englehart interview pt. 4 Coach Englehart [...]

Wakefield On Campus

Wakefield On Campus

Former Boston Red Sox pitcher and Panther first baseman Tim Wakefield stopped by campus to congratulate the 1992 baseball squad on their induction into the Florida Tech Sports Hall of Fame. Tim has moved back to [...]

Business Alumnus Inducted into Retail Hall of Fame

Business Alumnus Inducted into Retail Hall of Fame

Spencer Blaker ’90 was recently featured in the March edition of Shopper Marketing. Blaker is the director of global marketing for Burt’s Bees Inc. (a favorite brand of the alumni office). In his role, he is [...]

FTAA Offers Job Search Support … Partners with Alumni Agent

FTAA Offers Job Search Support … Partners with Alumni Agent

We proudly announce our partnership with Alumni Agent. Alumniagent.com is a unique career job site dedicated to connecting employers to job seekers from their alma mater and with employers interested in hiring alumni from FIT. With [...]

Alumnus Establishes Endowed Scholarship in Chemistry

Alumnus Establishes Endowed Scholarship in Chemistry

   Alumnus and Trustee Jonathan B. Zung ’86 has established The Martin Zung Memorial Chemistry Endowment Fund at Florida Tech in memory of his late father Martin Zung. [...]

Ads for Space: A Crowdfunded Campaign for NASA

Ads for Space: A Crowdfunded Campaign for NASA

By Dan Hendrickson, Aerospace Engineering ‘09 When the Space Shuttle landed for the last time, I noticed an alarming trend in public perception about the U.S. human spaceflight program.  Despite the fact that U.S. astronauts were [...]

On the Beat with a British Bobby

On the Beat with a British Bobby

Via Florida Tech Today Before each shift, Paul Robertson ’94 puts on his uniform—black cargo trousers, black shirt tucked under a black stab vest, handheld radio affixed near his left shoulder and a rig belt adorned [...]

Emerging Engineering

Emerging Engineering

Via Florida Tech Today Biomedical engineering has recently emerged as a discrete discipline. Closing the gap between engineering and medicine, the field has evolved from an interdisciplinary specialization to a field in itself. From applications in [...]

Aerial Observations

Aerial Observations

Via Florida Tech Today Alumni lead two visionary projects at Northrop Grumman To look down, or look up? When soaring high above the Earth, that’s a difficult question, given the spectacular sights in either direction. Thanks [...]