Lindsay Isaac

by Lindsay Isaac The most biologically diverse estuary in North America is dying—and Florida Tech students are trying to save it. That became the premise of the 13-minute capstone documentary produced by seniors in Florida Tech’s communication program this semester, Dr. Johnson’s Lab.  I was the director of Dr. Johnson’s Lab, which traces the story of Florida Tech graduate students…

Twenty-one Florida Tech students are days away from revealing two mini rovers they’ve spent hundreds of hours creating at the 2018 Northrop Grumman Student Design Showcase. The students are part of this year’s NASA JPL Senior Design team working on mini rovers for the Mars 2020 mission. JPL stands for “Jet Propulsion Laboratory” — NASA’s leading center for robotic exploration…

Cerberus, designed and built by eight Florida Tech seniors, is more than a reference to the monstrous multi-headed dog of Greek mythology. It’s a laboratory prototype of a satellite capable of tracking and capturing space debris. In other words, it’s designed to assist in the removal of defunct, artificially created objects in space that can easily damage satellites or spacecrafts.…

Austin Taft, a junior studying aerospace engineering at Florida Tech, lights up when he talks about Formula SAE—a team of students who design, manufacture, test and race a formula style car in The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)’s collegiate series. These Formula SAE competitions are held in various locations around the world, but Florida Tech’s team competes in Michigan each…

Florida Tech alumni and graduate students team up to launch their experiment onboard a suborbital rocket at NASA Wallops Flight Facility. They’ve spent over a year designing and building their playload which will launch on March 22, 2018. “Our payload will be loaded into a sounding rocket, which is a suborbital rocket,” said Logan Giacco, the team’s project manager. Basically,…

Tatsunari Tomiyama, a master’s student studying Aviation Human Factors, is back at Florida Tech after spending two weeks of intense research, team building and simulation training at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in Utah. Tomiyama served as the Health & Safety Officer for Crew 188 during the mission at MDRS—which ran from Jan. 27 to Feb. 10, 2018. MDRS…

Biological Sciences Major Pursues Paleoecology Research Molly Kingston, a biological sciences major, joined Dr. Mark Bush on his yearly summer expedition to Peru. The goal of the research trip was to visit two lakes and take sediment core samples for paleoecology research. After obtaining permits, acquiring horses and hiking for almost seven hours, the team finally reached their destination—Laguna Huayabamba. The…

The Florida Tech Bucket List There is so much to see and experience at Florida Tech—and your college years go by quickly. So here’s a little list we put together of must dos during your time at Florida Tech. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _…

  Ten Florida Tech students—all members of the university’s Residence Life staff—headed to Sarasota, Florida on Jan. 19 carrying a shark costume, a digitized mailbox, Pete the Panther pens and the desire to gather ideas and best-practices for Florida Tech ResLife. Their destination was the Florida Resident Assistant Seminar (FRAS)—an annual conference where resident assistants from colleges and universities across…

Dr. Eric Guisbert, assistant professor of biological sciences at Florida Tech, is bringing Wikipedia into the classroom. Adding to the universal body of knowledge is one of the main missions of graduate work—and as part Dr. Guisbert’s graduate class, Florida Tech students are doing just that. His students have contributed over 47,000 words to Wikipedia and have helped generate more…