Category: Campus & Community

New theater season includes musical

With over 100 years of theater production on campus, Stetson University announces four productions for the 2012-13 academic year, including a popular musical during the fall Homecoming. Performances will be held at Stetson Theatre Arts’ “Second Stage,” located inside theMuseum of Florida Arts, 600 N. Woodland Blvd., adjacent to the DeLand campus. The box office […]

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Community-Based Research honors Dr. Sorensen

Stetson University students conduct community-based research for governmental and non-profit agencies in central Florida each year – a real-life learning experience for students that also benefits the community partners. The research is done through Stetson’s Community-Based Research program, which is directed by Dr. William Ball, visiting associate professor of political science. Students take a course […]

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Croce, Nylen, Wolek are Fulbright Scholars

Three Stetson University faculty members, Dr. Paul Croce, Dr. Bill Nylen and Dr. Nathan Wolek, have been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants to travel abroad to teach and conduct research during the 2012-13 academic year, the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced. Recipients of the prestigious Fulbright grants are […]

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Veterans Law Institute opens in Gulfport

Stetson University College of Law dedicated its new Veterans Law Institute with a ceremony on May 31 in Gulfport, Fla. More than 100 people gathered for the dedication, which included remarks by the Honorable Bruce E. Kasold, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, Stetson Law faculty, students and veterans, a […]

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Making the Grade

In December, a group of 14 SU students successfully completed an internship in Teacher Education at various Central Florida elementary, middle and high schools. Students in the program gained real-world experience by being in the schools every day, all day, for a duration of 15 weeks, teaching, grading and planning classes. Included in the full-time […]

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Stetson to remove Stover Theatre

Because of the deteriorating condition of Stetson University’s Stover Theatre and after careful deliberations over the past year, the Board of Trustees approved the recommendation from the university administration to move forward with the removal of Stover Theatre this summer. This decision was made at the recent trustee meeting to seek a demolition permit from […]

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Tropical storm update

Sunday morning, May 28, 2012: The storm threat has passed.     Tropical Storm Warning in effect for Volusia County. The National Hurricane Center, http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/#BERYL, has issued a Tropical Storm Warning for the northeast coast of Florida including Volusia County. Stetson University has posted a Weather Alert on its home page and will provide periodic updates […]

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Professor honored by international society

Dr. Hala ElAarag, associate professor of computer science at Stetson University, is being awarded the Society for Modeling and Simulation International’s Outstanding Service Award. The award, to be presented at the SummerSim ’12 Conference in Genoa, Italy, in July, recognizes ElAarag’s “outstanding and dedicated technical contributions and services to the modeling and computer simulation discipline […]

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Veterans Law Institute opens in Gulfport

The College of Law is opening a new Veterans Law Institute on May 31 in Gulfport, Fla. The institute will serve the growing population of active duty military, veterans and their families in the Tampa Bay area, one of the largest concentrations of military veterans in the U.S. The institute’s Veterans Advocacy Clinic will provide […]

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Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Brigid Noonan

Associate Professor and Chair of Counselor Education Brigid Noonan followed a more circuitous path to an academic career than most faculty. She didn’t complete her undergraduate degree until she was 28, and, prior to pursuing graduate work at the University of Maryland, she held a variety of positions—on both coasts. She worked as a research […]

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Planning ahead eases the unexpected

Three years ago, when former Stetson University President and Chancellor Doug Lee and his wife, Margaret, were planning their retirement, they prioritized their philanthropic interests – the most important of which was Stetson University. The Lees decided to continue their annual gifts, as well as their membership in The Stetson Society through provisions in their […]

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Create Your Own Major

Who Does That? Sophomore Michelle Vergara, from West Palm Beach, Fla., did, and so can you! Here’s her story in her own words: I was that kid who did both AP and dual-enrollment — the one who wrote sports articles, but never set foot on the field — and who graduated in the top of my small […]

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Stetson Law honors students, faculty, staff

Several top awards were presented during the College of Law Honors and Awards Ceremony on May 11. Graduate Scott Stevenson was named valedictorian of his J.D. class and the Edward D. Foreman Most Distinguished Student. Stevenson, a member of Stetson’s award-winning Moot Court Board, received the Foreman Most Distinguished Student Award as the best all-around student […]

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End-of-year awards go to faculty, staff

Congratulations to the outstanding Stetson University DeLand campus faculty and staff who won awards this spring for excellence in teaching, research, creativity, scholarship, community impact and student advocacy. Warm congratulations also to this year’s Quality of Service award recipients. The 2012 John Hague Award for Distinguished Teaching – Eugene Huskey, professor of Political Science, was […]

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Huskey wins Hague Teaching Award

Dr. Eugene Huskey, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Political Science at Stetson University and scholar of politics in Russia and Central Asia, is the recipient of Stetson’s 2012 John Hague Teaching Award for outstanding teaching in the liberal arts and sciences. The Hague Award, named for the late Professor Emeritus of American Studies […]

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4 professors win 2012 Hand Awards

Stetson University Associate Professor of English Dr. Joel Davis and Assistant Professor of Chemistry Dr. John York received this year’s Hand Awards for Scholarship and Creativity. Professor of Political Science Dr. Anne Hallum received this year’s Hand Award for Community Impact. Professor of Law Dr. Luz E. Nagle received this year’s Hand Award for Excellence […]

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Commencement in the news

The success stories of two Stetson University 2012 graduates – Tuyet “Hannah” Nyugen and Alex Sanchez – were featured this week in the Daytona Beach News-Journal story, “Struggles of foreign-born Stetson students made them strong.” That story is among several news placements related to Spring Commencement. Graduation was also well-covered in social media. Here is […]

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Dr. Terry Farrell, McEniry Award winner

During the College of Arts & Sciences Commencement ceremony May 12, Biology Professor Terry Farrell won Stetson’s 2012 William Hugh McEniry Award for Excellence in Teaching. This prestigious award was presented to Farrell by last year’s winner, Dr. Camille Tessitore King. King presented Farrell’s award using a technique similar to David Letterman’s “Top 10.” As […]

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Karen Ryan named dean of Arts & Sciences

Stetson University has selected Karen L. Ryan, a scholar of 20th-century Russian satire coming from the University of Virginia, as the new dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. Ryan will also hold a faculty position, as professor of Russian language and literature. She will start at Stetson on July 23. “Dr. Ryan will further […]

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Moran receives Etter McTeer Turner Award

Each year the Etter McTeer Turner Award is presented to the student who shows outstanding academic achievement, leadership and service to the community in honor of Stetson’s first woman dean of students. On May 12, Dane Moran was called to the podium to accept this award by Dr. Karen Kaivola, Associate Provost for Faculty Development, […]

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