Since 1992, Stetson University Political Science Professor Dr. Anne Hallum’s non-profit, the Alliance for International Reforestation (AIR), has helped more than 2,000 rural Guatemalan families protect their homes and villages from deadly mudslides by planting trees on mountainsides. In addition, she also researched many local Guatemalan tree varieties and learned which ones could be strategically replanted […]
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Dr. Joseph Romm, a leading American voice on climate change who was named “The Web’s most influential climate-change blogger” by Time magazine in 2009, will spend a week at Stetson University this month and give a free public talk on Wednesday, Feb. 23. Romm’s lecture, “Jobs in a Globally Warming World: A vision of our […]
Continue ReadingBiologist Jim McGraw, an expert on the effects of climate change on plants in the arctic, will give a free public lecture at Stetson University at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 10. His lecture, “A Darwinian View of Climate Change: How Long Term Ecological Studies Provide Key Insights,” will be held in the duPont-Ball Library, lower […]
Continue ReadingAimed at correcting cultural distortions and media misconceptions, Stetson University Professor of Modern Languages and Literature Dr. Robert Sitler wrote a new book, The Living Maya: Ancient Wisdom in the Era of 2012, out of a “genuine love for the Mayan people.” The Living Maya, released this month by North Atlantic Books, is available through Amazon […]
Continue ReadingStetson University’s School of Music has been named to Parade Magazine’s “College A-List” in the category highlighting Arts Programs. Stetson is one of seven colleges and universities nationwide to receive the honor. The Sunday magazine, carried in newspapers across the nation including the Orlando Sentinel, compiled its “College A-List” on the recommendations of high school counselors […]
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