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The College of Science (COS) is located at the F. W. Olin Physical Sciences Building as well as the Crawford Science Tower in the Florida Institute of Technology main campus, Melbourne, Florida. COS is the second largest college in the Melbourne main campus, consisting of approximately 680 students. College of Science is currently accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
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Operations and Research Facilities edit
The F. W. Olin Physical Sciences (OPS) Building houses the COS Dean's Office, Department of Chemistry, and the Department of Physics and Space Sciences. OPS supports several COS programs, including astronomy & astrophysics, atmospheric sciences, condensed matter physics, geospace physics, high energy physics, computational physics, bio-organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, medicinal chemistry, environmental chemistry, and molecular spectroscopy.[1]
The F. W. Olin Life Sciences (OLS) Building, houses most of the Biological Sciences offices, 12 research labs, computer facility, and electron microscopy suite. OLS also has animal care facilities for small mammals as well as reptiles, as well as a 800 ft2 greenhouse.
The Aquaculture Laboratory in Simcox Square houses recirculating systems and controlled environmental factors to study reproduction, early life history, growout, nutrition, behavior and related areas of study.
The Sportfish Research Institute utilizes the Indian River Lagoon to research mosquito impoundments, seagrass habitat, artificial reefs and mangroves. "The Indian River Lagoon provides a natural ecosystem to conduct experiments in the wild that complement laboratory-based experiments. This estuary where fresh and salt water mix to form brackish water, the lagoon stretches 156 miles from Ponce De Leon Inlet in Volusia County to Jupiter Inlet in Palm Beach County."[2]
The Vero Beach Marine Lab is located on four acres of oceanfront property in Vero Beach, Florida. The lab focuses on education and research on marine sciences, including mariculture, the ecology of seagrass.
The Neotropical Paleoecology Research Group is focused on studying climatic change in South America by studying fossil pollen and charcoal in order to reconstruct over 200,000 years of biodiversity data.
Geospace Physics Laboratory, headed by Associate Dean and Professor of Physics and Space Sciences Kamid K. Rassoul[3], GPL
College of Science Departmental Breakdown edit
Department of Biological Sciences edit
The Department of Biological Sciences (Department Prefix: BIO) has fifteen full time faculty members, three professors emeriti ranging from the University of Mumbai (formerly University of Bombay in India, University of Chicago and University of Illinois, two research faculty from University of Arizona and Purdue University, and seven associate graduate faculty.[4]
BIO offers B.Sc. degrees in Aquaculture, Biochemistry, Ecology, General Biology, Marine Biology, Molecular Biology, and Preprofessional Biology[5], M.Sc. degrees in Biotechnology, Cell and Molecular Biology, Ecology, and Marine Biology, and Ph.D. in Biological Sciences.[6]
Research edit
The department performs research in several locations. The Aquaculture Laboratory in Simcox Square focuses on studies of reproduction, early life history, growout, nutrtion, and behavior. The Sportfish Research Institute
Department of Chemistry edit
The Department of Chemistry (Department Prefix: CHM)
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Department of Mathematical Sciences edit
The Department of Mathematical Sciences (Department Prefix: MTH)
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Department of Physics and Space Sciences edit
The Department of Physics and Space Sciences (Department Prefix: SPS)
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Florida Tech's Physics and Space Sciences Department is affiliated with the Florida Space Institute [7]
Department of Mathematics and Science Education edit
The Department of Mathemics and Science Education (Department Prefix: EDS)
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College of Science Degree Programs Summary[8] edit
COS offers 25 Bachelors of Science (B.Sc.) degree programs in
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- ^ http://cos.fit.edu/staff.html
- ^ http://cos.fit.edu/biology/Faculty/Faculty.htm
- ^ http://cos.fit.edu/biology/UGPrograms/UGProgram.htm
- ^ http://www.fit.edu/admission/graduate/prgmpdfs/BioSci.pdf
- ^ http://www.fsi.ucf.edu/
- ^ http://www.fit.edu/catalog/documents/2007_2008catalog.pdf