Category: Campus & Community

’69-70 Basketball Team to be Honored Saturday

Members of Stetson’s 1969-70 men’s basketball team will be honored at halftime of Saturday’s game against NJIT. Tip-off for the game is 3:30 p.m. at Edmunds Center. Saturday is one day shy of the 46th anniversary of arguably the greatest win in program history. The Hatters defeated 18th-ranked Louisville, 87-80, on Jan. 17, 1970, in […]

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Student volunteers help rebuild Freedom Playground

Multiple student groups from Stetson University spent several weeks last semester volunteering to help rebuild Freedom Playground, a favorite play area for local children of all ages. After 20 years of wear and tear and the extremes of Florida weather, the playground had fallen into decline and had to be demolished. But, just as it had […]

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Winter Workshop: Seeds for Spring

The Lyonia Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society (FNPS) is offering a seed-collecting and seed-sowing workshop on Tuesday, Jan. 19, at 7 p.m., in the Rinker Environmental Learning Center (RELC), Stetson University. Local organic gardener Pauline Coppello, of Pauline’s Lucky Market Garden, along with Nicki Cheslow, student coordinator of Stetson’s Seed Library, will lead […]

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Stetson’s new Writers’ Program travels Paradise

Aspiring and established writers alike will have an amazing opportunity to hone their craft and travel the globe with a brand new residency program being launched at Stetson University in January 2016. “We are bringing in amazing instructors and visiting writers for our first master of fine arts residency in January,” explained Mark Powell, associate […]

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WMFE 90.7 FM to air Christmas Candlelight Concert

The Stetson University Christmas Candlelight concert will air on 90.7 FM WMFE public radio, on Friday, Dec. 25, and Saturday, Dec. 26. This concert features Stetson University’s Concert Choir and Stetson Men, Timothy Peter, conductor, and the Stetson University Women’s Chorale, Andrew Larson, conductor, including student instrumentalists from the Chamber Orchestra and Symphonic Band. Peter […]

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Surviving and Thriving with Jud and Barb Stryker

  Judson Stryker, D.B.A., professor of accounting at Stetson University for over 40 years, and his wife Barbara, have shared not only more than 54 years of marriage and a beautiful family, but they both have been stricken with the same rare physical condition within months of each other. Under the care of top quality […]

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Stetson University in the News, Dec. 11-17, 2015

Top Stories:  On Dec. 16, Stetson graduate Jonathan Canalizo was featured in an article on Fortune titled “Brokers and Advisers Fight For Millennials’ Money.” The Dec. 13 Tampa Tribune reported that Law Professor Joseph Morrissey is suing the federal government for denying him a tax benefit for medical deductions for using a surrogate to conceive […]

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Chong Selected to Lead Marketing and Communications at Stetson University

Stetson University has selected Bruce Chong as its new vice president for marketing and communications, effective Nov. 4. He will lead the university’s marketing, communications and public relations efforts. Chong takes the position previously held by Gregory Carroll who retired last month after six years at Stetson. Chong comes to Stetson from South University where […]

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Food for Thoughtful, Musical

Stetson’s chapter of Phi Mu Alpha (PMA), a national music fraternity, reached a high note that echoed across the community by developing, designing and marketing the Chili for Charity cook-off. The event raised nearly $2,200, a portion of which went to Sinfonia Educational Foundation, whose mission is to, “advance music in America by supporting scholarship, […]

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Stetson University in the News, Dec. 3 – 9, 2015

Top Stories: • Pensions & Investments posted an article featuring Stetson’s plans to overhaul its investments lineup on Dec. 4. • Rabbi Barry Altman, adjunct professor of religious studies, wrote an article in the Daytona Beach News-Journal on Dec. 4 titled “Hanukkah calls faithful to rededicate selves to ideals.” • On Dec. 9, The Daytona […]

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Outstanding Hatters recognized at Homecoming 2015

Homecoming is a time when Stetson University honors its own outstanding alumni and faculty. Stetson President Wendy B. Libby and Scott Bruin ’75, president of the Alumni Association, presented the 2015 awards of distinction to five alumni and one professor at the President’s Champagne Breakfast held Saturday morning, Nov. 14, on the Stetson Green. 2015 […]

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Stetson University In the News, Nov. 27-Dec. 3, 2015

Top Stories: • U.S. News & World Report/Money, Dec. 3, quotes Stetson student Tanner Gunderson, lead analyst with the Roland George Investments Program at Stetson, regarding Abercrombie & Fitch’s revenue as compared to other leading name-brand stores, in article, Stock Market Showdown: A&F vs. Gap.” • New Hampshire Public Radio and Lakeshore Public Media, Nov. […]

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