Five Stetson University students, all members of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), placed at the second annual regional programming competition held late February at Deloitte, a company that provides industry-leading audit, consulting, tax and advisory services. Divided into two teams, Stetson’s first team named Null Pointer Exception, with team members Kathryn Sarullo, Joshua Letcher […]
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Stetson University College of Law has selected Joshua Karton for this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching Advocacy and American University Washington College of Law Professor Elizabeth L. Lippy for the Edward D. Ohlbaum Award. Both awards will be presented during the Educating Advocates Teaching Advocacy Skills Conference at Stetson law school in […]
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Following a 4-0 week against A-Sun opponents FGCU and Jacksonville, the Stetson beach volleyball team kept its No. 9 national ranking in this week’s AVCA Collegiate Beach Poll. On Friday, Stetson swept Jacksonville 5-0 before defeating FGCU 4-1. The Hatters posted the same exact scores against the same opponents on Saturday. Stetson (13-1) leads the […]
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The Stetson University Senior Thesis Exhibition will open with a public reception Friday, March 18, from 6-8 p.m., at the university’s Homer and Dolly Hand Art Center. The art exhibition will remain open through April 2. The opening reception and the art exhibition are open to the public, free of charge. The senior students exhibiting […]
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Top Stories: John Jett, Ph.D., research professor of environmental science, was quoted in an article in National Geographic, Mar. 10, “Tilikum, Sea World’s Killer Orca, is dying.” Jett, a former whale trainer at Sea World, was prominently featured in Blackfish, the documentary about keeping orcas in captivity. On Mar. 14, Jason Evans, Ph.D., assistant professor […]
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The concert schedule for the rest of the spring semester features musical treats sure to please people of all ages, performed by students, faculty and guest artists. Admission is complimentary for anyone with a Stetson ID, and most offer cultural credit for Stetson students. Click here to see upcoming concerts. For questions and more […]
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Three public lectures on African-American religion. Stetson University presents the George H. Shriver Lectures: Religion in American History, Mar. 29-30, featuring guest speaker Eddie Glaude, Jr., Ph.D., Princeton University’s chair of the Department for African American Studies and the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies. Glaude’s topic will be “The Study […]
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Stetson University’s College of Law has again topped the U.S. News & World Report national rankings by placing first in Trial Advocacy and third in Legal Writing. This is the 18th time in Stetson University history that it has ranked in the top of the U.S. News rankings in Trial Advocacy. Stetson has ranked among […]
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$1 million and nearly 1,000 returns filed for members of the local community
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When you first meet Dixon Sutherland, Ph.D., you don’t immediately realize the impact he has had on the lives of some of Stetson University’s best scholars and students. Sutherland is a professor of religious studies, and is well known for his work with students in that area, but his other claim to fame is that […]
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On Monday, April 4, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., Stetson University in DeLand will celebrate the “topping out” of the new Marshall & Vera Lea Rinker Welcome Center. Topping out is when the highest beam is placed atop a structure during the construction phase, and it is traditional to celebrate at that time. “A ‘Topping Out’ […]
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Coming up in April, the next issue of Stetson Magazine will look at the path one Stetson graduate took to participating in one of the discoveries of the century. Here’s an excerpt from Janie Graziani’s article, “Listening to the Universe.” Last September, Earth received a billion-year-old message from the universe, and 2006 graduate Sarah Caudill, […]
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You might have seen the headline recently, “Millions at Risk from Rising Seas” based on a research paper out of the University of Georgia and published by the journal Nature Climate Change. What you might not know is one of the co-authors is Stetson University’s own Jason Evans, Ph.D. Evans, an assistant professor of environmental […]
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Stetson’s Black Student Association (BSA) took a step back in time and transformed the ordinary Stetson Room into a 1960s night club, complete with doo-wop music and black and gold records for the annual BSA Ball last month. Annually, BSA hosts a ball, where students and faculty, both members and non-members, are invited to celebrate a facet […]
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Stetson University will host the annual TEDx event, Friday, March 18, at 4 p.m. in Allen Hall, 508 N. Woodland Blvd., on the DeLand campus. TEDx is a subsidiary of the world-renowned TED organization which holds conferences relating to Technology, Entertainment and Design on a local scale. Stetson introduced TEDx to the university community in 2013 […]
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#StetsonVotes Straw Poll Results: Rubio, Sanders As a values-driven institution that emphasizes the importance of global citizenship, as stated on Stetson’s website #StetsonVotes!, Stetson strives to develop the habits of citizenship that will last our students’ entire lives. One of the most important – and most fundamental – aspects of being an engaged citizen is participation […]
Continue ReadingTop Stories: • K.C. Ma, Ph.D., Roland George Chair of Applied Investments Director, was quoted in an article, “From Rise to Slide: Citigroup Stock’s Wild Ride,” published in MSN, Yahoo! Finance, and 4 other news outlets on Mar. 7. • Paul J. Croce, Ph.D., published an article, “Should we really turn college education over to […]
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Stetson University’s Roland George Investments Program (RGIP) will hold a Public Trustee Meeting on Wednesday, March 16, where RGIP students will present their stock recommendations for approval by the RGIP trustees. Titled “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” RGIP students will present three stock recommendations (Chevron, Cal-Maine Foods, and Drone Index) for the Roland […]
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New academic leadership, diversity on campus discussed also on agenda Stetson University Board of Trustees approved more than $26 million in capital improvement projects at the university’s DeLand and Gulfport campuses, as well as improvements at the university’s location in Celebration. The move came at its Feb. 19 meeting at Stetson’s campus in Celebration, Fla. […]
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Derick Newton led the Hatters with 22 points, but Stetson fell in overtime 80-78 at FGCU on Sunday. Photos by ASunPhotos.com
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