Florida Institute of Technology

MELBOURNE, FLA. — Robert Costanza, Ph.D., of the Gund Institute of Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont, will speak at Florida Institute of Technology on December 5 at 2 p.m. The public is invited to this free event, which will be held in the F.

MELBOURNE, FLA. — Terry Oswalt, Ph.D., head of the Florida Tech Department of Physics and Space Sciences, has won a National Science Foundation grant of more than $380,000 for a unique approach to learning stars’ ages. “How old is it? Is just about the most difficult question you can ask about a star,” said Oswalt.

MELBOURNE, FLA. — Early on Jan. 22 scientists of the U.S. Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration joined colleagues around the world to celebrate the lowering of the final piece of the CMS detector into the underground collision hall at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

MELBOURNE, FLA. — Dr. Shaohua Xu, Florida Tech associate professor of biological sciences, has an original theory of the origin of Alzheimer’s Disease and has earned a $150,000 grant from Space Florida to test it. The grant was matched with $30,000 from NASA’s Aerospace Medicine and Occupational Health Branch.

MELBOURNE, FLA.‒ A $415,000 grant from The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services funds a Florida Tech project for the production of biofuels and animal feed from microalgae. The university is collaborating with Aurora Biofuels Inc.