Florida naturalist John Serrao will present “Our Amazing Arachnids—Florida’s Spiders and Their Kin,” at Stetson University’s Science Cafe, 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 22, at the Gillespie Museum, 234 East Michigan Ave., on the DeLand campus. “People are fascinated by spiders, scorpions and other arachnids, but not always in a positive way,” explains Serrao. “This slide program […]
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Category: Arts and Sciences
“Just like writing about the future is a way of talking about the past, fairy tales are a way of talking about the real world,” said Salman Rushdie while presenting his new novel, Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights during an event at Miami Dade College in mid-September. Rushdie is the dedicated author of […]
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The Stetson University Jazz Ensemble will present Florida’s own, Linda Cole, jazz vocalist extraordinaire, in concert Wednesday, Sept. 30, 7:30 p.m., in the Stetson Room, second floor of the Carlton Union Building, 131 E. Minnesota Ave., on Stetson’s DeLand campus. Under the leadership of Music Professor Patrick Hennessey, director of Stetson’s Jazz Ensemble, Stetson’s 17-member big band […]
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Are you free on Saturday, Sept. 26? The three Stetson museums, along with eleven other sites in West Volusia, will be open, and offer free admission as part of the Smithsonian Magazine’s Museum Day. Along with its permanent collection of minerals and earth science displays, including one about Smithsonian benefactor, mineralogist James Smithson, the Gillespie […]
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Stetson University begins its 110th season with Neil Simon’s wacky comedy “Laughter on the 23rd Floor” on Oct. 1-3, at 8 p.m. and Oct. 4 at 3 p.m., in Stetson Theatre Arts’ Second Stage in DeLand’s Museum of Art. Set in 1953 on the 23rd floor of a tall building in New York where NBC […]
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The opening reception at Stetson’s Hand Art Center celebrated three new exhibits, all revolving around the theme of nature in general and humanity’s relation to it, in particular. These exhibits are Oscar Bluemner’s Orient–featuring works from the Vera Bluemner Kouba Collection, as well as Drifters by Pam Longobardi, and also featured works by sound artists […]
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Stetson University’s Friends of Music invite all faculty, students, staff and members of the public, to the 2015-16 Friends of Music Recital, held each year in celebration of the beginning of the new academic year. This year’s concert will be at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Aug. 21, in Lee Chapel, inside Elizabeth Hall, located at 421 […]
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Scullers call it flat water. They prize it for its calm fluidity, and Lake Beresford in DeLand has it for miles. The flat water here rarely ripples unless a rock or oar glides across its surface. University, prep school and international teams travel here to practice and prepare for competition on its deep-green, glassy […]
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The Stetson University School of Music has been awarded the 2015 Best of DeLand Award in the Performing Arts category by the DeLand Award Program. This annual awards program determines the winners of each category based on each business’ ability to enhance the DeLand area and make it a great place to live, work and […]
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Oscar Bluemner and the Orient: Works from Stetson University’s Vera Bluemner Kouba Collection Opening Reception: Friday, Aug. 28, 6-8 p.m., Hand Art Center Aug. 14 – Dec. 4, 2015, Hand Art Center, Stetson University The exhibition Oscar Bluemner and the Orient: Works from the Vera Bluemner Kouba Collection features a selection of artworks by American […]
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Stetson University has selected noted environmentalist and policy expert Clay Henderson as the first executive director of its newly established Institute for Water and Environmental Resilience. The institute, a first of its kind at Stetson, will focus on water and environmental research in order to offer policy options to protect them and other natural resources […]
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Kimberly Reiter, Ph.D., associate professor of history, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Enduring Questions grant. Reiter was surprised and excited about the possibilities of what winning this grant could provide for her and her students. “I quite frankly did not expect to be selected,” Reiter said. “However, I had heard about it […]
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As I sit today as a recent Stetson graduate reading the quote by Walt Disney printed on the back of my 2006 HATS program t-shirt, I realize that this quote has defined my life: “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new […]
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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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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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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 […]
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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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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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Artist and architect Gerard Nadeau will present a public lecture at Stetson University about his Art of Space installation on Tuesday, June 16, at 7 p.m. in the Hand Art Center, located at 139 East Michigan Avenue, DeLand. Sponsored in part by Stetson’s Artists and Lecturers Series, this event is open to the public, free […]
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A new study led by Stetson University’s Jason M. Evans, Ph.D., found public opinion on climate change is greatly influenced by current weather conditions. The study also discovered older persons are more concerned about their community having enough water in the future due to global warming. One of the biggest factors in the perception of […]
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