Education Associate Professor and Jessie Ball duPont Chair of Social Justice Education, Rajni Shankar-Brown, Ph.D., pictured in the classroom, has been awarded an Education and Culture grant by the U.S. Department of State and the Partners of the Americas. This competitive grant will allow Shankar-Brown to travel to Brasilia, Brasil and Bogota, Colombia to facilitate […]
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Author: Mary Anne Rogers
With an initial $500,000 gift to Stetson University with the explicit goal of teaching students how to invest money in the markets, Mrs. Roland George would be especially proud of the accomplishments of the students who gain acceptance to this program and the professors who keep a careful watch on what has grown into a […]
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Stetson University College of Law presented its annual awards to graduates and friends of the college in conjunction with the Florida Bar Annual Convention June 24-27 in Boca Raton. Scott Bruin B.A. ’75, pictured center with College of Law Dean Christopher Pietruszkiewicz, and Stetson President Wendy B. Libby, was presented the Distinguished Service Award in recognition […]
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Lori Bruno, a member of Stetson’s Lifelong Learning program, discovered her passion for painting with the help of the program’s dedicated volunteers and staff. Lifelong Learner is located at Stetson University’s Celebration and DeLand campuses and the program gives members an opportunity to learn new topics in an academic setting with other members who are […]
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The following stories about Stetson University ran in the news this week, June 26-July 1, 2015: • Stetson Psychology Professor Chris Ferguson commented about the role of villains in the recent, real-life news story of the prisoner escapees, David Sweat and Richard Matt, from an upstate New York maximum-security prison, in Yahoo Health, and Yahoo […]
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Stetson Director of Tennis, Pierre Pilote, has announced his resignation after 22 years of coaching with the Hatters, Director of Athletics Jeff Altier announced today. Pilote, the 2015 Atlantic Sun Conference Coach of the Year in women’s tennis, has accepted a position as the Executive Director of Tennis at the Shanghai-based American College Development Services. […]
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With more than 15 years of experience in Information Technology (IT) at several institutions of higher education, Jose Bernier, pictured right, joins the Stetson University team as associate vice president and CIO (Chief Information Officer). Bernier holds an Ed.D., and an educational specialist degree in higher education administration, from the University of Florida, a master’s […]
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Focus on gaming distracts from pinpointing root causes of societal violence In the wake of the tragic shooting in a Charleston, S.C., church, many look for reasons to explain such violent behavior. Some already have pointed to violent video games as a possible reason, but three new studies from Stetson University found no evidence violent […]
Continue ReadingThe following stories about Stetson University ran in the news this week, June 19-25, 2015: •Reuters, Final Cut Pro, com, DebatingEurope.eu (video) featured Stetson’s news release, “Digital Poison? Stetson University Researcher <Associate Professor of Psychology Chris Ferguson> Finds Violent Video Games Have Minimal Influence on Youth: Focus on gaming distracts from pinpointing root causes […]
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Everyone is invited to participate! You have until Saturday, June 27, to help artist/architect Gerard Nadeau, visiting Stetson’s DeLand campus through June 27, with the installation of the Art of Space project happening behind the Stetson University Marketing Office, and adjacent to the Hand Art Center. Nadeau, assistant professor of architecture at Drury University, is an […]
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“Significance Within – That is the story we wanted to tell when producing this book that features the accomplishments of a number of Stetson alumni who have used their experiences at Stetson to impact the world,” said Joel Jones, assistant vice president of marketing and creative services at Stetson University. Jones, along with Greg Carroll, vice […]
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Hala ElAarag, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science, was awarded the 2015 Faculty Mentoring Award from the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). ElAarag is the vice president and president-elect of the Consortium of Computer Sciences in College and worked as a counselor in the Mathematics and Computer Sciences […]
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Former Stetson catcher/outfielder Garrett Russini will not have to travel very far to begin his career as a professional baseball player. Russini, a Sarasota native and product of Braden River High, signed a free agent contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates and begins his career playing for the Gulf Coast League Pirates in Bradenton, Fla. Russini […]
Continue ReadingThe following stories about Stetson University ran in the news this week, June 12-18, 2015: • Professor Bill Andrews, chair of the International Business department in the School of Business Administration, was featured in the June 15 issue of forwardflorida.com in “Lessons from Cuba: As Stetson University puts an emphasis on study abroad, a classroom […]
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If you are at all skeptical whether “Juneteenth” is an actual word, you’re not alone. In a recent survey of varied ethnicities and mostly college educated, a whopping 60 percent declared that Juneteenth is not a word, believing it’s a fabricated word and that they’d never heard this word in their entire lives. But our […]
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The Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants (FICPA) bestowed its highest honor on Stetson’s own Judson Stryker, D.B.A., on Friday, June 12, at the Dolphin Hotel at DisneyWorld during its annual meeting. This award recognizes full-time college accounting educators for excellence in teaching and for national prominence in the accounting profession. Stryker has been with […]
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Have you always wondered if law school is for you? Stetson University College of Law is hosting an open house in July and repeating in August about the admissions process for part-time law school applicants. Students interested in the full-time law program at Stetson are also invited to attend. Prospective law students interested in attending […]
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Unanimous vote adds Highlanders; shared focus on academics, athletics and community investment makes an ideal fit. The Atlantic Sun Conference Presidents Council will announce in a press conference scheduled for noon Friday, June 12, that the New Jersey Institute of Technology will join the Atlantic Sun Conference effective July 1, 2015, with competition to begin […]
Continue ReadingThe following stories about Stetson University ran in the news this week, June 5-11, 2015: • The feature, “Research shows Public Opinion really does change with the weather,” highlighting the research of Assistant Professor of Environmental Science Jason M. Evans, ran on June 4, in countless news media outlets, including: Tampa Bay Business Journal, South […]
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