Top Stories

• Television station WESH and MSN featured the late Christine Horner Biernacki, a Stetson biology and nutrition professor, and son Eric Biernacki in the Jan. 6 broadcast segment and online story, “Orlando man will send mother’s remains to deep space aboard Vulcan rocket.” “She was in the hospital one day, I came in, and she said, ‘If I don’t make it, I want you to send my ashes to space,’” Eric Biernacki said. “Every time I look up into the sky, it’s going to have an even deeper meaning for me knowing that she’s up there.”

Fox 35 Orlando, Yahoo! News, WOGX Fox 51 News, The Messenger and other media outlets also reported the story. The website celstis.com featured Christine Horner Biernacki’s obituary on its Memorial Spaceflights page. (More about Christine Horner Biernacki story can be found here.)

• Chicago radio station AM 560 The Answer cited, in a Jan. 4 broadcast, research by Christopher Ferguson, PhD, professor of Psychology, and Sven Smith, PhD, associate professor of Sociology, on perceptions of racism in the criminal justice system. WSB-AM radio also cited their research in a Jan. 5 broadcast.

American Experiment featured Ferguson and Smith and their research in the Jan. 5 story “Refuting the narrative of a ‘systemically racist’ criminal justice system.” Us Message Board reported on the research in the Jan. 5 post “No, minorities don’t receive harsher penalties for crime, but left wing academics still lied about it.” The Manhattan Institute, Hot Air and other media also reported the story.

• The West Volusia Beacon on Jan. 9 published “Guest Commentary: We need a feasibility study on annexing Spring Hill” by Kevin Winchell, director of Community Engagement at Stetson.

• WFTS Tampa Bay quoted Law alumnus and Florida State Representative Berny Jacques in the  Jan. 5 broadcast segment and online story “Proposed Florida bill would offer courtroom advocates in animal abuse cases.”

Other Stories

• The Tampa Bay Times and Yahoo! News cited Stetson Law in the Jan. 10 story, “40 ways the Tampa Bay area will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.”

• The Venice Gondolier, the Charlotte Sun, the Arcadian, Newsbreak and other media outlets cited Stetson in the Jan. 5 story, “American Association of University Women group awards top $7K.”

• Positively Osceola cited Stetson’s Education Leadership Program in the Jan. 7 story, “Early Voting Continues in Florida House District 35 Special Election Between Erika Booth and Tom Keene.”

• HappeningNext featured Stetson in the Jan. 7 post, “Historic Walking Tour.”

• John Tanner’s Barbecue Blog cited Stetson in the Jan. 7 post, “Santorini Greek Cuisine, DeLand, Florida.”

• The West Volusia Beacon’s Jan. 13-20 calendar cited a faculty recital featuring Aaron Witek, DM, assistant professor of Music/Trumpet and coordinator of Brass; and Boyd Jones, D.MA, university organist and John E. and Aliese Price Professor of Organ. The calendar also referenced Stetson in items on a guest recital by violinist Linda Wang, and the upcoming Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Gala and Awards Banquet.

• Mountain Times cited James Pearson, former director of the Hand Art Center, in the Jan. 9 story, “BRAHM provides ‘cultural enrichment to the High Country.’”

Alumni

• The Wayne Daily News featured alumnus Michael Genslinger in the Jan. 4 story “WSC Music Educator To Perform Faculty Trumpet Recital.”

• The Bradenton Times cited alumna Elizabeth Jane Dye in the Jan. 7 story “Sunday Favorites: The First DeSoto Pageant.”

• The Southeast Texas Record featured law alumna Diana N. Evans in the Jan. 8 story “Bradley Elevates 13 Attorneys to Partner or Counsel.”

• WorkCompCentral and gilsondaub.com cited Law alumna Christine Nixon-Calamari in the Jan. 11 story “Defense Firm Gilson Daub Opens Fort Lauderdale Office.”

• Qmunicate profiled alumna and television personality Britt McHenry in the Jan. 10 post “Britt McHenry Single.”