Stetson in the News: March 1-7, 2024
Top Stories
• TV stations WOFL Fox 35 and WOGX Fox 51 interviewed Kristine Dye, PhD, assistant professor of Health Sciences and Biology, in the March 5 broadcast segment, “COVID Guidance Confusion.” “Now we’ve entered a new stage of the pandemic where essentially we’re starting to treat COVID-19 like we would treat other respiratory pathogens,” Dye said. “. . . So, what the protocols are now is that when you test positive for COVID, you stay home for a couple days until you actually feel better. That’s the big difference.”
• Public radio stations WMFE, WUWF and WUSF quoted Randall Croom, PhD, associate professor of Management, in the March 5 broadcast segment and online story, “Credit Card Competition Act could have negative impact on Florida tourism.”
• The Orlando Sentinel quoted Nathan Wolek, PhD, professor of Digital Arts and Music Technology, in the March 1 story, “Preserving quiet: Artists work to capture natural soundscape at Canaveral National Seashore.”
• Florida News Line featured a 120-year-old tale about Stetson baseball in the Feb. 29 story, “PopHistory | Rube Waddell, Lost in Jacksonville.”
• Politico and Yahoo News! quoted Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, professor of Law, in the Feb. 29 story, “Can the RNC bail out Trump’s legal bills? Probably not.”
• The Palm Beach Post, the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Yahoo News! and more than 10 other media outlets cited Stetson in the March 1 story, “These Florida schools are where the most students return after their freshman year.”
• Web Times quoted Khushbu Mishra, PhD, assistant professor of Economics, in the Feb. 29 story, “Nepal loan shark victims make 23-day march for justice: ‘they cheat, exploit people like us’. ”
• Bay News 9 interviewed Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, professor of Law, in the March 4 broadcast segment, “Supreme Court rules to keep former Pres. Trump on Colorado ballot.”
• Reuters, U.S. News & World Report, Yahoo! News and other media outlets quoted Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, professor of Law, in the March 3 story, “Super Tuesday to test resurgent crypto industry’s political might.”
• Television station WFTS Tampa Bay quoted Catherine Cameron, professor of Law, in the Feb. 26 broadcast segment and online story, “Florida news experts watching Supreme Court on social media cases.”
• Television station WPTV West Palm Beach quoted Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, professor of Law, in the Feb. 29 broadcast segment and online story, “How will Donald Trump’s Supreme Court case affect timeline of classified documents trial in Fort Pierce?”
Other Stories
• The West Volusia Beacon cited Deana Lowry, new director of Wellness and Recreation, in the March 5 story, “Class Notes.”
• Bearing Arms quoted Stacey-Rae Simcox, professor of Law and director of the Veterans Law Institute and director of the Veterans Advocacy Clinic, in the March 4 story, “Budget Bills Include Cut to ATF Bottom Line.”
• HappeningNext cited Stetson’s Gillespie Museum in the March 1 post, “Science Cafe – Your Guide to the 2024 Solar Eclipse.”
• Computer Weekly News cited Stetson in the Feb. 29 story, “Computers: Findings from Stetson University Provide New Insights into Computers (Mild Cognitive Impairment Subtype Performance In Comparison To Healthy Older Controls On the Nih Toolbox and Cogstate).”
• Oakland County Legal News cited Ellen S. Podgor, the Gary R. Trombley Family White-Collar Crime Research Professor of Law, in the March 4 story, “ABA Criminal Justice Section launches Prosecutorial Independence Task Force.”
• PRLog cited Stetson in the March 5 story, “ERAU Graduate Freud Jeantilus Joins Teens in Flight as Flight Instructor.” FlaglerLive cited Stetson in the March 5 story, “Embry-Riddle Graduate and Frontier Airline Recruit Freud Jeantilus Is Teens in Flight’s Newest Flight Instructor.”
Alumni
• EIN Presswire, Capital Soup and the website of the Florida Senate featured Law alumna and Senate President Kathleen Passidomo in the March 6 story, “President Passidomo Becomes a Safe School Canine Partner at Senate Portrait Unveiling.”
• Hometown News featured Lou Paris, alumnus and former director of Stetson’s Prince Entrepreneurship Program, in the Feb. 29 story, “Volusia County Council names economic development director.”
• The website law.com featured the Feb. 29 commentary, “Building Professional Relationships in a Virtual World,” by Law alumnus Greg Payton.
* Fulcrum profiled Law alumnus and State Rep. Berny Jacques in the March 4 story, “Florida’s Berny Jacques exemplifies effective legislating.”
* The Bradenton Times featured Law alumna Pamela D’Agostino in the March 5 story, “BOCC to Vote on New County Attorney Thursday.”