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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Dr. Bobby Adams, retired professor of Music Education, and former coordinator of Instrumental Music and director of Bands at Stetson University, passed away on Thursday, May 28, at the age of 75. Since he began at Stetson in 1987, Dr. Adams helped build Stetson’s instrumental program and grow the School of Music. With his help, […]
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What Harry Potter can tell us about ourselves If you’ve ever read the Harry Potter series of books or seen the movies, then you may have wondered about the “sorting hat” — a pointed, weathered wizard’s hat used to place the Hogwarts students into the correct residence. You may even have wondered into which house […]
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The recipients of this year’s Stetson Undergraduate Research Experience (S.U.R.E.) grant program have been announced by Associate Professor of History Kimberly Reiter, Ph.D., head of both Stetson’s S.U.R.E. and Showcase programs and recent winner of the John Hague Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Liberal Arts and Sciences. The selected students of this highly competitive program […]
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When most people hear the term literacy, they think of reading and writing, but in its broadest use literacy refers to a competence in a specific area such as culture, technology, or finance. Visual literacy, the ability to make meaning of information presented as an image, is by no means a new concept, but it […]
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George Salis, Stetson class of 2015, has won the 2015 Josephine F. Davidson Award for Integrity in Journalism for his writing and reporting, and will receive $500. Kaley Fulton was named runner-up of the award, presented by Stetson University’s journalism program. Salis is a double major in English and psychology, and has contributed to The Reporter, Stetson’s student-run newspaper. He […]
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Continue ReadingThis is it! Hatter Productions will be bringing Sage the Gemini and DJ Baauer for Hatter Palooza 2015. Doors opens at 7:00 p.m. in the Edmunds Center, 143 E. Pennsylvania Ave., on the DeLand campus. Sage the Gemini, pictured, is best known for his hit song Gas Pedal and Baauer is the artist behind the Harlem Shake. Due to […]
Continue ReadingCompelling mysteries hook researchers into blazing trails to discovery. In particular, Stetson Assistant Professor of Biology Roslyn Crowder, Ph.D. (pictured first row, center), and her students are on one such trail. They are asking whether plant-based products can kill cancer cells naturally and selectively. Would these substances be viable alternatives to today’s chemotherapy and radiation, […]
Continue ReadingThis year’s initiation ceremony for Phi Beta Kappa is scheduled for Friday, April 17 at 4:30 p.m. in the Gillespie Museum. A reception on the porch will immediately follow. Gillespie Museum is located at the southeast corner of campus, at 234 E. Michigan Ave. The public is invited to attend. This year, 20 Stetson students have been […]
Continue ReadingStetson University presents Clybourne Park April 16-18, at 8 p.m. and April 19 at 3 p.m., in Stetson Theatre Arts’ “Second Stage” located inside the Museum of Art, 600 N. Woodland Blvd., adjacent to the DeLand campus. Inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning satire looks at […]
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