Category: Campus & Community

SU research presented on Capitol Hill

Katie Moore, holding certificate, a junior Stetson student in the College of Arts and Sciences, was accepted to present at this year’s Posters on the Hill conference. The conference, held each April in Washington, D.C., is hosted each year by the national Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) on Capitol Hill. This event helps members of […]

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New coach, “Blackfish” top news coverage

Stetson’s hiring of Corey Williams as head coach for men’s basketball and the upcoming release of the controversial movie “Blackfish” top the news for Stetson this week. In addition, several stories from the College of Law received significant coverage. Notable national and local placements include The Wall Street Journal, CBS Sports, NBC Sports, TheHill.com, Tampa […]

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Research shows tech leads to growth in GDP

Developing nations that invest in building robust information communications technology (ICT) – such as Internet and broadband – will see an increase in their GDP, and improvement in the national economy and quality of life for its citizens, according to researchers from Stetson University. Stetson MBA student Kate MacFarlane (pictured left) presented a research paper […]

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Law faculty awarded for excellence

Stetson University College of Law faculty Mark Bauer, Timothy S. Kaye and Ellen S. Podgor were honored on May 17 on the Gulfport campus with awards for outstanding teaching and scholarship. Professor Bauer was presented the Branton Excellence in Teaching Award, given annually to a full-time professor who has made outstanding teaching contributions inside and […]

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Director of elder law center honored

Stetson University College of Law professor Rebecca Morgan and her husband Jay were presented with the keys to the City of St. Petersburg during an evening fundraising program at the Sunshine Center in St. Petersburg on May 18. The Morgans were recognized for volunteering substantial time and making significant contributions to the Sunshine Center over […]

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Law professors, alumni honored by NAELA

Professor Roberta Flowers, a member of the Center for Excellence in Elder Law at Stetson University College of Law, has been elected to the board of directors of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. Professor Flowers is nationally recognized as an expert in the field of ethics in elder law and elder abuse. Flowers […]

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Corey Williams tapped to lead Stetson men’s basketball

Stetson University Director of Athletics Jeff Altier announced on Monday the selection of Corey Williams as the new head coach of the Hatters men’s basketball program. Williams, the 21st head coach in program history, takes the helm at Stetson after 13 years of collegiate coaching experience.  A native of Macon, Ga., Williams played point guard […]

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Faculty Spotlight: Ramee Indralingam

“I chose chemistry because biology required dissections—of cockroaches.  I was OK with everything else, but I wouldn’t touch a cockroach with a 10-foot pole.” – Ramee Indralingam Growing up in Sri Lanka, Chemistry Professor Ramee Indralingam, Ph.D., was educated in a system created by the British in the era of colonial rule (1815-1948). It was […]

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Ethics, A-Sun baseball tourney top news coverage

Research on the ethics of professors and the Atlantic-Sun Conference baseball tournament topped Stetson’s news coverage this week. Notable national and local placements include the A-Sun.org, Diverse Issues in Higher Education, NewstrackIndia.com, Tampa Bay Times, Louisville Courier-Journal, Daytona Beach News-Journal, Naples Daily News, and Florida Times Union. Coverage for May 24-30, 2013, includes: Top Stories The May 25 Ledger and […]

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Overcoming obstacles normal to music grad

To say Chelsey Geeting is amazing would be an enormous understatement. She has four part-time jobs and a full class schedule at Stetson. She’s preparing to graduate with a bachelor of music, with outside field—education, thanks to scholarships she earned through her talent and desire to work extremely hard. Recently, she auditioned for and accepted […]

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Ready? Play! Hatter Summer Camp Fun

Stetson University will again host a variety of athletic summer camps for school-aged youth. Sports for the 2013 summer camps include soccer, basketball, tennis and volleyball. The summer camps are specifically designed to provide an NCAA Division-I experience with the university’s coaches, with instructions for improving the fundamentals of each sport. Camps will be held […]

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Excellence, Teaching Advocacy presented at Law School

Stetson University College of Law’s  prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching Advocacy was presented to Loyola Law School professor Susan G. Poehls this year.  Poehls is the director of trial advocacy programs and the William C. Hobbs Professor of Trial Advocacy at Loyola Law School, where she developed the highly ranked Byrne Trial […]

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Stetson Inspirare women’s chorus to perform May 30

Inspirare, Stetson University’s community women’s chorus, part of the Stetson Community School of Music, will perform at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, May 30, in Lee Chapel, inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. Now in its third year Inspirare, meaning “to breathe and to inspire,” was founded by its director Ann Small, internationally known scholar […]

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Taking Nothing For Granted

Most of us would never give a second thought to the fact that our legs would simply continue to grow as we grew and that we’d always have full use of them throughout our lifetime. Since they worked so well, we’d rarely consider what might happen if we indeed had a problem with one or […]

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Alexander’s departure, ethics research top news

Casey Alexander’s departure from Stetson and new research on the ethics of professors led Stetson’s news coverage this week. Notable national and local placements include the NBC Sports, CBS Sports, CNBC, Science Daily, Bloomberg Businessweek, Tampa Bay Times, WOFL-TV, Daytona Beach News-Journal, Tampa Tribune, and The Times of Israel. Coverage for May 17-23, 2013, includes: Top […]

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Stetson partners with Public Health

Stetson students produce public health coloring books and videos  Integrative health science/communication students at Stetson University created two coloring books and videos that promote the importance of public health. The school projects were presented to the Florida Department of Health in Volusia County and will be used to raise awareness of public health in the […]

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2013 Internship Travel Fund recipients

The office of Career Development and Academic Advising is pleased to announce the student recipients of the Internship Travel Fund Scholarship Program. Experiential education, including internships, is an integral part of a Stetson education. Through generous alumni and organizational donations, the Career Development and Academic Advising office is able to offer scholarships, awarded on top […]

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Don’t Focus On A Past You Can’t Fix

To hear these words from a senior in college who has endured a mostly tumultuous life to this point, is quite telling. To have gained this level of awareness and consciously decided to live her life by this motto, is quite striking for a young woman her age. Maura Martin, who graduated Stetson University May […]

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