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MELBOURNE, Fla.—The Women’s Business Center (WBC) at Florida Institute of Technology and the Technological Research Development Authority (TRDA) continue the Technically Speaking Luncheon Lecture Series in May with a program on “Fundraising for Your Business.” Featured speakers are Kirstie Chadwick of Growth Innovators and Jeff Neve from PNC Bank. Chadwick and Neve will discuss funding for business start-ups and business…

Post Below Courtesy of Florida Tech News Bureau   MELBOURNE, FLA.—Orlando-area TV celebrity Marc Middleton will deliver the annual commencement address for Florida Institute of Technology’s Orlando graduate center in Baldwin Park on May 18. About 40 students will graduate with master’s degrees in a commencement ceremony that evening. Middleton is founder and CEO of Bolder Broadcasting, parent company of Growing Bolder,…

Nathan M. Bisk College of Business students, Simon Cummings and Edgars Eglitis, at Spring 2012 Commencement. As Florida Tech’s men’s basketball coach Billy Mims stated, these students are “two of your finest COB student/athletes. Both graduated on time in only 4 years while also performing at a very high level of NCAA basketball and winning the 2012 Sunshine State Conference Championship,…

Guest Blogger: Bill Watkins How a person deals with adversity is what defines a person’s character, and this X-Culture project and the month of April packed much adversity for me. The month of April started off for me rough to say the least. My fiancée of year left my side, and I lost one of my best friends. Heartbroken and…

Guest Blogger: Kenneth C. Knight The George C. Marshall Award is awarded to the number one cadet in each Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program. Each year the top cadet goes to the Virginia Military Institute and attends a leadership conference for 4 days. During these four days each cadet participates in round table exercises. Round tables are where we discuss…

Guest Blogger: Dr. Joan Wiggenhorn, Associate Professor The Nathan M. Bisk College of Business held its annual Awards Banquet on April 12, 2012. Both individual scholarship awardees and 24 Delta Mu Delta student inductees were honored at the banquet. The Delta Mu Delta induction ceremony was held just prior to the banquet and both the history of Delta Mu Delta…

Guest Blogger: Tim Muth, Director of Student & Program Assessment We have reached the end of the X-Culture project. My 26 students and I have been on a rollercoaster of activity (and emotions) for the past few months. Sometimes the activity was very exciting and challenging and other times my students were frustrated and discouraged. In the end, most students were…

Guest Blogger: Ahmed Malaikah The X-Culture project widened my knowledge as it forced on the interaction of foreign student from different countries. It enables you to witness a variety of different views and ideas as students come for different environments and backgrounds. It taught me to over come challenges, be active and efficient.    

Nathan M. Bisk College of Business students’ Kalle Mansson and Jeremy Heaton appeared on WFIT, Public Radio for the Space a Coast a service of Florida Tech, to discuss their participation in the X-Culture Project. Take a listen: I425+EX CULTURE+

Guest Blogger: Joseph Kozlowski Since the beginning of March, I, Joseph Kozlowski, as well as over a thousand other students from countries all over the world, have been participating in the X-Culture project. I had the pleasure of working with people from Asia and South America in the project. Our project idea was to have McDonalds serve a new menu…