As children, we ask, “Why?” All too often, we learn to accept “because it just is.”
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Top Stories: • Associate Professor and Chair of Psychology Christopher Ferguson, Ph.D., provided commentary on whether or not media coverage on shootings provokes more shootings in the future, in an article in Yahoo! Health on July 27. • Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law Bruce Jacob spoke with the Ledger for the July 28 story, “Leak: PCSO […]
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Forty years after the end of the Vietnam war for Americans, Stetson University will dedicate a campus space honoring alumni and students who served there or during that era (1964-1975). On Homecoming Saturday, Nov. 14, at 11 a.m., the Stetson University Vietnam Remembrance Site will be dedicated near Griffith Hall. Since being announced last August, […]
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Beautiful coherence can be created from something so complex, so chaotic.
Continue ReadingTop Stories Paul Boudreaux, professor of law, wrote an op-ed on eminent domain published in the Orlando Sentinel’s Front Burner on July 17. Roberta Flowers, professor of law, is quoted in the July 22 Tampa Bay Times article, “Jury selection in latest Dontae Morris case a slow, delicate task.” Charles Rose, director of Stetson Law’s […]
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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 […]
Continue ReadingTop Stories David Sawyer, a Stetson student, created a new web application TSOLife.com that is designed to capture personalized legacies so history will not be forgotten between generations, according to the Daily Herald on July 14. Additional coverage: StockNod, DigitalMediaWire, and 87 other news sources. Susan Rozelle, associate dean at the College of Law, wrote an editorial […]
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New construction and major renovations are underway at Stetson University’s DeLand campus as the university moves forward with its Comprehensive Campus Plan adopted by the Board of Trustees in 2014. The plan will improve the campus experience for current and future students, parents, alumni and visitors to the university. “There are several projects on our […]
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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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Seek the meaning of life? Seriously? The meaning of life?
Continue ReadingThe following stories about Stetson University ran in news media outlets this week, July 2-9, 2015: • Professor of Law Peter Lake spoke with the Harvard Crimson for the July 3 article, “Education Department Backs Away from College Rating System.” Individual quoted Professor Lake on July 2 in an article addressing the U.S. Department of Education’s plan […]
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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 […]
Continue ReadingThe following stories about Stetson University ran in the news this week, June 26-July 1, 2015: • Stetson Psychology Professor Chris Ferguson commented about the role of villains in the recent, real-life news story of the prisoner escapees, David Sweat and Richard Matt, from an upstate New York maximum-security prison, in Yahoo Health, and Yahoo […]
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With more than 15 years of experience in Information Technology (IT) at several institutions of higher education, Jose Bernier, pictured right, joins the Stetson University team as associate vice president and CIO (Chief Information Officer). Bernier holds an Ed.D., and an educational specialist degree in higher education administration, from the University of Florida, a master’s […]
Continue ReadingThe following stories about Stetson University ran in the news this week, June 19-25, 2015: •Reuters, Final Cut Pro, com, DebatingEurope.eu (video) featured Stetson’s news release, “Digital Poison? Stetson University Researcher <Associate Professor of Psychology Chris Ferguson> Finds Violent Video Games Have Minimal Influence on Youth: Focus on gaming distracts from pinpointing root causes […]
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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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“Significance Within – That is the story we wanted to tell when producing this book that features the accomplishments of a number of Stetson alumni who have used their experiences at Stetson to impact the world,” said Joel Jones, assistant vice president of marketing and creative services at Stetson University. Jones, along with Greg Carroll, vice […]
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Learning from mistakes and finding solutions for the future
Continue ReadingThe following stories about Stetson University ran in the news this week, June 12-18, 2015: • Professor Bill Andrews, chair of the International Business department in the School of Business Administration, was featured in the June 15 issue of forwardflorida.com in “Lessons from Cuba: As Stetson University puts an emphasis on study abroad, a classroom […]
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If you are at all skeptical whether “Juneteenth” is an actual word, you’re not alone. In a recent survey of varied ethnicities and mostly college educated, a whopping 60 percent declared that Juneteenth is not a word, believing it’s a fabricated word and that they’d never heard this word in their entire lives. But our […]
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