Top Stories

• WFTV 9 News featured Stetson in the April 2 story, “Stetson University preps wave of construction, renovation projects.” Central Florida News 13 covered the story in the April 2 broadcast segment, “New Residence Hall to Be Built at Stetson University.” WKMG News 6 covered the story in the April 2 broadcast segment, “Stetson University Announces New Residence Hall.” The Orlando and Jacksonville Business Journals reported on the topic in the online story, “Stetson University to build new dorm as part of wave of construction projects.” Other media outlets also reported the story.

• The Tampa Bay Times reported the death of John Passidomo, the husband of Senate President Kathleen Passidomo, in the April 3 story “Florida Senate President Kathleen Passidomo’s husband dies after fall.” The story reported that “The Passidomos were ‘law-school sweethearts’ who met while attending Stetson Law School.” CBS News Miami, the Pensacola News Journal, the Orlando Sentinel, the Tampa Bay Times and more than 20 other media outlets also reported the story.

• The Daytona Beach News-Journal featured the Sandra Stetson Aquatic Center in the April 3 story, “Volusia County Council OKs nearly $3M in ECHO grants.”

• NBC News, Yahoo! Life, MSN, AOL and other media outlets featured Christopher Ferguson, PhD, professor of Psychology, in the April 3 online story, “A new book has amplified fierce debate around teens, mental health and smartphones.”

“I just think this is how it is now,” Ferguson said. “It’s just a matter of getting used to that. For some reason, society always wants to throw a temper tantrum when a new thing comes along. And eventually, like all temper tantrums, they go away.”

• The Huntsville News quoted Ellen S. Podgor, Gary R. Trombley Family White-Collar Crime Research Professor of Law, in the March 28 story, “How Sam Bankman-Fried’s possible sentence stacks up against the century’s biggest fraudsters.”

“The thing that bothers me the most about this case is that if [Bankman-Fried] had been caught earlier, the fraud would not be as great and the sentence lower,” Podgor said. “I question whether a fraud that goes on for a longer period of time, because it was not stopped by a government agency, should place the defendant in receiving a higher sentence.”

• Florida Matters, a program of public radio station WUSF, interviewed Louis Virelli, professor of Law, for the April 2 broadcast and online story, “Breaking down the legal ramifications of Florida’s abortion and marijuana amendments.” WUSF also quoted Virelli in an April 2 news segment on the issue. WUWF, WFSU and Notisia365 featured Virelli in the April 2 story, “How the Florida Supreme Court’s opinions on abortion will impact health care and politics.”

• WFLA News Channel 8 and Yahoo! News quoted James Fox, professor of Law, in the March 29 story, “Monday Deadline: Florida Supreme Court to rule on abortion, marijuana amendments.”

• The Orlando Sentinel, Yahoo! News, ArcaMax and other media outlets quoted Roberta Flowers, professor of Law and director of the Center for Elder Justice, in the March 31 story, “Inside the elder-abuse case against Orlando commissioner Regina Hill.”  Real Radio 104 cited Flowers in an April 1 broadcast segment about the case.

• The Guardian, MSN, News Sniffer and other media outlets quoted Chris Ferguson, PhD, professor of Psychology, in the March 29 story, “Fear and frenzy on Tiktok after women punched in New York City: ‘I don’t want my account to be exploited.’ ”

• Public radio station WUSF cited Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, professor of Law, in an April 2 broadcast segment on abortion rights in Florida.

• Pasco News and WIND-FM featured Stetson in the April 2 story, “Best private colleges in Florida.”

Other Stories

• HappeningNext cited Stetson Law in the March 29 post, “Passing the FL Bar with BARBRI (and other jurisdictions).”

• Publicnow.com, the Tampa Free Press and stpete.org featured Urayoán Noel, PhD, affiliate faculty, MFA of the Americas, in the March 29 story, “St. Petersburg Holds Second Annual ‘City of Writers Poetry Festival’ in April.”

• FlaglerLive featured Michael Rickman, retired professor of Music and Professor Emeritus, in the March 30 story, “Michael Rickman and Daytona Solisti in ‘Mozartiana – Music of Mozart’ April 21 in Ormond Beach.”

• The University of Arkansas website cited Mayhill Fowler, PhD,  associate professor of History and director of SPREES, Stetson’s Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, in the April 1 story, “Historian Wins Prize for Best Book in Slavic Studies.”

• The Fort Myers News-Press cited Stetson Law in the April 1 story, “Lee County Student of the Week: April 1-4. The polls are open. Vote now!”

• Radio station AM 560 The Answer cited Stetson in an April 1 broadcast about racial issues in the criminal justice system.

• Hometown News featured three Stetson items in the March 28 story, “Out & About”: the Stetson Opera production of “Die Fledermaus,” the Faculty Chamber Music Concert, and the Stetson Chamber Orchestra Concert featuring soloist Jamie Clark, DMA, assistant professor of Cello and coordinator of Chamber Music.

• The Historical Marker Database cited Stetson Law in an April 1 post.

• CityBiz and Realty Times cited Stetson in the April 2 story, “Mid-Century Marvel By Frank Lloyd Wright Protégé Enters Market.”

• Hometown Stations and the Ada Icon cited Stetson Law in the April 2 story, “ONU Law hosts acclaimed defense attorney for annual Goldman Lecture.”

• The website butler.legal featured Law student Richard Shockley in the April 2 story, “Butler Presents the Stetson Insurance Law Book Award for 2024.”

• Zephyrnet, Feedimo, DarkReading and other media outlets cited Stetson’s duPont-Ball Library in the April 3 story, “How to Counter Disinfo Campaigns in Global Elections.”

• The West Volusia Beacon cited Stetson in the April 3 story, “Capturing the Moments Between the Moments: The Canovas Photography.”

Alumni

• Ocala Style profiled alumnus Ross Allen in the April 1 story, “Remembering Ross Allen.”

• The Rough Notes Company featured the March 28 story “2024 SOCIAL MEDIA GUIDE for Agents and Brokers” by alumna Jacklyn Lavoie.

• MegaTV profiled alumna Irina Vilariño in the March 29 story, “Meet the Top 22 Mujeres Mega Exitosas.”

• PatientDaily featured Law alumna Elise Bennett in the March 30 story, “Florida Caribbean director: ‘They are these incredible ecosystem engineers.’ ”

• Providence published the March 29 essay, “The Moral Injury of the Cross” and the March 31 essay, “The Moral Restoration of the Tomb” by alumnus Timothy Mallard.

• The Associated Press, the Pilot News and more than 20 other media outlets featured alumnus Matt Smith in the April 2 story, “Sapience Analytics Names Matthew Smith as the First Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).”

• The West Volusia Beacon profiled alumnus and Double Hatter James Clayton in the April 3 story, “Circuit Judge James Clayton to exit due to state mandate.”