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Florida Tech Offers Online Course: A Behavior Analysis of Persistent Error Patterns
02/08/2012
MELBOURNE, FLA.—Florida Institute of Technology Continuing Education offers “A Behavior Analysis of Persistent Error Patterns,” an online course, featuring Ennio Cippani, Ph.D. This on-demand presentation provides an analysis of persistent error patterns using both basic and applied research.
02/07/2012
MELBOURNE, FLA.—The keynote speaker for the Florida Institute of Technology Fourth Annual Creative Writing Institute, fiction writer Lynne Barrett, recently took the Gold Prize in the 2011 Florida Book Awards. She won first place in the General Fiction category for her book, Magpies.
Foosaner Art Museum Features Clay Printmaking Workshop Feb. 25
02/07/2012
MELBOURNE, FLA. –The Foosaner Art Museum, Florida Institute of Technology, will present a Clay Printmaking Workshop with Mitch Lyons Saturday, Feb. 25, at the Renee Foosaner Education Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Students will learn how to makeclay monoprintsby adding colored clay slips, colored clays, handmade pastels, textures, stencils and slip trailing to a wet slab of clay.
Student Project Connects to Hang Up 'N Drive
02/07/2012
MELBOURNE, FLA.—“People who use cell phones while driving can be dangerous,” said Ayuba Audu, a member of a Florida Institute of Technology student team that has taken on a project in support of Hang Up’ ‘N Drive. The Space Coast non-profit organization, Hang Up ‘N Drive, established to prevent cell phone-related road accidents, is gaining momentum, in part from drawing supporters like Audu.
Brevard Schools Foundation Names Florida Tech's InSTEP Program a Business Partner of the Year
02/03/2012
MELBOURNE, FLA.—Out of more than 80 organizations nominated, the Florida Institute of Technology’s Integrated Science Teaching Enhancement Partnership (InSTEP) program was selected by the Brevard Schools Foundation to receive the Business Partner of the Year award for its commitment and contributions to improving Brevard schools.
Florida Tech Professor to Give Particle Physics Lecture about Elusive Higgs Boson Feb. 24
02/03/2012
MELBOURNE, FLA.—As part of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Public Lecture Series, the Florida Institute of Technology Department of Physics and Space Sciences (DPSS) will host a presentation by DPSS Professor Marc Baarmand. He will present “Got Higgs?” Feb.
Girls Night Out Is Fun Time at Foosaner Art Museum Feb. 16
02/03/2012
MELBOURNE, FLA.—Girls’ Night Out at the Foosaner Art Museum, Florida Institute of Technology, will be an art-filled evening Feb. 16, from 6 to 9 p.m. Guests will see “Fear and Folly: The Visionary Prints of Francisco Goya and Federico Castellon” while sipping signature cocktails.