Stetson University will cancel classes on Tuesday, April 19, for its all-day Stetson Showcase – Undergraduate Research and Creative Arts Symposium, showcasing student research and creative projects from across the DeLand campus’s academic disciplines. All student presentations and the keynote lecture are free and open to the public. Tickets are required for the School of […]
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Stetson University in Central Florida is now accepting applications for its new Stetson University Summer Pre-Law Institute, a rigorous, six-week course in which undergraduate college students will be chosen to prepare for law school and a career in the legal field. Students enrolled in the unique program will spend four weeks on Stetson’s DeLand, Fla., […]
Student investors in Stetson University’s Roland George Investments Program proved their global excellence once again – by winning the inaugural Global Asset Management Education (G.A.M.E.) Forum at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut earlier this month. The Roland George team placed first in the undergraduate fixed income category. The students made all of their own investment decisions, […]
F. Robert Huth Jr., an experienced business and finance administrator who currently serves as executive vice president at Middlebury College in Vermont, has been named vice president for business and chief financial officer at Stetson University. He will join Stetson in July, succeeding George H. Herbst, who is retiring. Huth has more than 30 years […]
Stetson University will be host to the 27th annual IMPACT Conference, a national conference focusing on service, social justice and advocacy, Thursday, March 31, through Sunday, April 3. About 600 college students and staff members from all over the United States are planning to attend, including 150 Stetson students. Registration is still open; information: http://www.impactconference.org/register-now/. […]
Stetson University’s Homecoming 2011 will be celebrated this weekend, March 25-27, with many events – including the annual Mainstreet Block Party, concerts, lectures, sporting events and a special event at the Gillespie Museum – open to the public. Stetson will also have a public reception at Stetson Hall, the residence hall slated to be torn […]
Three students involved in Stetson University’s Chemistry Department have the honor of attending and presenting their research at the American Chemical Society’s National Semi-Annual Conference in Anaheim, Calif., March 28-30. These students have been working on specific projects with professors in preparation for this event. The American Chemical Society is the world’s largest scientific society, […]
Stetson University senior Abigail Lemay has won a national Undergraduate Social Action Award from the Sociologists for Women in Society for her activism related to pay equity for women. This is the second year in a row a Stetson student has received this national honor. Florencia Abelenda, who graduated in 2010, was honored last year […]
Stetson University senior Heather Grove won the 2010 Excellence in Service Award from Florida Campus Compact for being one of Florida’s most dedicated student service scholars who is making a positive impact through contribution of service. Grove was selected from nominees from all of the private colleges and universities in Florida. The award ceremony took […]
Stetson University freshman Ryan Rinaldo, a Bonner Scholar, is taking a lead role in organizing the second West Volusia Community Expo, to be held Thursday, March 24, at Deltona High School. The high school campus at 100 Wolf Pack Run in Deltona will come alive from 4:30–7:30 p.m. for the Expo, which was created last […]
The 2012 U.S. News & World Report has again ranked Stetson University College of Law the top law school in the nation for trial advocacy and number three for legal writing. Since the U.S. News rankings began in 1995, Stetson Law has ranked first in advocacy 14 times. Stetson has also consistently ranked among the […]
Get ready for the return of Hatter Football! Stetson University is starting the process to join the prestigious Pioneer Football League with the first game in fall 2013. Long ago considered a pigskin powerhouse in Florida, Stetson has not had a football team since the 1956 season. The football announcement website is at www2.stetson.edu/football. Watch […]
Stetson University will host the 40th annual Floyd M. Riddick Model United States Senate on March 17-19, 2011. The public is invited to a free lecture by noted congressional scholar Walter Oleszek, on Friday, March 18, at 7 p.m. in the Stetson Room, second floor of the Carlton Union Building, 131 E. Minnesota Ave. The title […]
After detailed assessment of the condition of the facility and lengthy deliberations over several years, Stetson University’s Board of Trustees approved the recommendation of the Trustees Facilities Management Committee to remove Stetson Hall. Built in 1886 and expanded at the end of World War II, Stetson Hall sits in the core of campus and has […]
Stetson University edged out the Florida Gators, the Florida State Seminoles and other teams to win a statewide investment competition this week and will now advance to national competition in Omaha, Neb., in April. The best and brightest financial analyst students from six universities across the state competed in the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute’s Global […]
John Sherwood, a senior at Stetson University majoring in computer science, placed in the Top 10 out of 3,500 students from more than 400 schools across the United States and Canada for Part 3 of the 2010 IBM Master the Mainframe Contest. This was the sixth annual run for the contest designed to equip students […]
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 […]
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 […]
Stetson University Political Science Professor Dr. T. Wayne Bailey was honored at the Volusia County State of the Union program Jan. 31 for his longtime contributions to Volusia County government and work in local, state and national politics. Bailey was vice chair of the citizen’s group that created the County Charter, which is the foundation […]
Biologist 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 […]