Gordon Patterson

In the late 1960s Florida Tech developed a six-week Pre-Stewardess Training Program to attract female students to the university.

The "father of the atomic bomb" spoke about the "miserable things," his euphemism for the atomic and hydrogen bombs.

WFIT's journey from the minds of Florida Tech's Ham Radio Club to a student-run organization to the thriving NPR affiliate it is today.

The 15-acre Patterson Botanical Garden is one of the most unique campus botanical gardens of its kind in the continental United States.

A summary of the history of Florida Tech's presidential searches written from the perspective of historian and professor Gordon Patterson.

Florida Tech says goodbye to a nearly 100-year-old tree and beloved campus landmark.

Brothers Scott, Richard and Eric Adams sparked a digital revolution in the ’70s and ’80s with impacts lasting through today.

Florida Tech, then Brevard Engineering College, launched its first computer course in 1959—without a computer.

Florida Tech held its first homecoming in January 1972. The four-day event proved to be a debacle.

Dateline: 1978 The knock on the door was unexpected. It was barely seven o’clock in the morning.  Three days earlier, Stanford (Stan) Zone, on June 9, 1978, had graduated from Mel High.  His mother woke her sleeping son and told him that there was a man from Florida Tech there to give him a ride to work.  Forty-two years later, Stan Zone is still…