Stetson University has been In the News quite a bit this summer – with faculty experts being interviewed on subjects including elections, the Colorado shooting, single-gender elementary school classes and bullying; stories about construction on campus; alumni accomplishments; and more.

This week, CBS’s 60 Minutes re-ran its earlier story on homeless families in central Florida and, at the end of the report, announced that Stetson is providing scholarships to two of the youngsters featured in the piece. Watch that video and see some of the other Top Stories from the past few weeks:

• Stetson University was highlighted on CBS’s 60 Minutes on July 29 for providing scholarships to Arielle and Austin Metzger, whose family was profiled as part of a story on homeless families in central Florida. The story was also carried on CBS national radio, including such stations as WWJ-AM radio (Detroit, Mich.), KRLD radio (Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas), and WBBM Newsradio (Chicago, Ill.).
• The July 24 Christian Science Monitor quoted Law Professor Susan Rozelle for the story, “Colorado shooting: no cameras for suspect’s next appearance, judge rules.” The story was also picked up by the Alaska Dispatch and Yahoo News.
• President Wendy B. Libby’s career path from chief financial officer to university president was featured in a Business Officer magazine (July/August edition) story about how the stature of the role of the chief business officer has grown over the decades.
• Political Science Professor T. Wayne Bailey was interviewed for July 31 Sarasota Herald-Tribune and Aug. 1 Sarasota Herald-Tribune stories about a possible campaign finance violation by a candidate for State Attorney. Bailey also commented on fundraising efforts by U.S. Senate candidates Bill Nelson and Connie Mack for a July 30 story in the Naples (Fla.) Daily News and was interviewed for a July 30 Daytona Beach News-Journal story about the Daytona Beach mayor’s election.
• Construction of Stetson’s new Sports Training Facility is nearing completion, and practice for football will start Aug. 6, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported July 17. Major renovations to Conrad Hall and the new Stetson Cove Apartments will be ready for the mid-August return of students to campus, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported Aug. 1.
• Stetson Law Professor Ciara Torres-Spelliscy was quoted in the July 26 Mother Jones article, “Super-PACs Can’t Give $1 Million to a Congressman. But This One Did.” She was also quoted in the iWatch News and Nation of Change, “Million-dollar donation in Indiana race may skirt limits on corporate giving” and in the Huffington Post, “RGA’s Indiana shell game.”
• Professor Torres-Spelliscy’s opinion article, “Protect democracy from Corporations,” which originally ran in USA Today and other outlets, has been picked up by others including the Stevens-Point Journal, Wassau-Daily Herald,Post-Crescent, Oshkosh Northwestern, FDL Reporter, the Clarion Ledger, the VIP Jackson and the Daily World.
• Joseph Protopapa is Stetson’s new executive director of Career Development and Academic Advising, and Cindy L. Oakley-Paulik has been named assistant director of Academic Advising, the Daytona Beach News-Journal announced July 23.
• The July 20 Bloomberg Business quoted Stetson Law Professor Ellen Podgor for the story, “Insider Traders Face Longer Sentences as Traders Get Tough.”
• School of  Music alumnus and opera singer Tai Oney has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship that will enable him to study at the Royal College of Music International Opera School, the Lynn Haven News Herald reported July 19. The story has been picked up by publications including the Walton Sun (Northwest Florida), South Bend (Ind.) Tribune and the Aberdeen (S.D.) News.
• Thomas V. Schwarz has started at Stetson as the new dean of the Schoolof Business Administration, and Betty Thorne, professor of statistics and director of undergraduate studies in the SoBA, has been named associate dean, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported July 16.
• Professor of Teacher Education Kathy Piechura-Couture was interviewed about single-gender classroom education research and statistics during a live studio appearance July 12 at Fox 35 (Orlando). Teacher Education’s single-gender classroom research was cited July 13 in The America Needs Fatima blog post, “Should Classrooms be Coed?”
• Assistant Professor of Counselor Education Meghan Walter was interviewed for a July 13 Daytona Beach News-Journal story on bullying in schools.
• Alumna Isa Adney, who transferred into Stetson from Seminole State College and is the author of Community College Success, provides advice in the July 13 Fox Business news report, “How the Pick the Right Community College.”

Additional news coverage, including more Top Stories, Other Stories in the News and Alumni in the News, can be found at: DeLand campus In the News and Law Faculty in the News.