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Finance team wins investment contest, advances

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 […]

Student is Top 10 in IBM contest

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 […]

Professor Anne Hallum a CNN Hero

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 […]

Climate-change blogger to lecture Feb. 23

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 […]

Professor honored by Volusia County

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 […]

Lecture on ecology, climate Feb. 10

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 […]

19th annual MLK Breakfast is Jan. 17

The 19th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Breakfast, with keynote speaker Donna Banks, community resource coordinator for Spring Hill, will be held Monday, Jan. 17. The public is invited to join the celebration honoring King and his dream, beginning at 7:30 a.m. at Stetson University’s Rinker Field House inside the Hollis Center, 600 […]

2 VPs departing; national searches planned

Stetson University vice presidents Deborah J. Thompson and George H. Herbst each played critical roles in the first 18 months of Wendy Libby’s presidency – moving Stetson into a new era with strategies and best practices to renew the campus landscape and update classrooms with a goal of increasing enrollment and retention. Over the past […]

Professor authors book on Maya, 2012

Aimed at correcting cultural distortions and media misconceptions, Stetson University Professor of Modern Languages and Literature Dr. Robert Sitler wrote a new book, The Living Maya: Ancient Wisdom in the Era of 2012, out of a “genuine love for the Mayan people.” The Living Maya, released this month by North Atlantic Books, is available through Amazon […]

Stetson 23rd in nation for service

A national rating system that focuses on how well colleges and universities contribute to the public good in the areas of service, research and social mobility has selected Stetson University as the top-rated four-year school in Florida. Stetson is ranked No. 23 nationally in Washington Monthly magazine’s “Top 50 Master’s Universities” for universities with bachelor’s and master’s […]

Music on Parade’s ‘College A-List’

Stetson University’s School of Music has been named to Parade Magazine’s “College A-List” in the category highlighting Arts Programs. Stetson is one of seven colleges and universities nationwide to receive the honor. The Sunday magazine, carried in newspapers across the nation including the Orlando Sentinel, compiled its “College A-List” on the recommendations of high school counselors […]

Graduating seniors earn top honors

Two students from Florida and one from Iowa have won Stetson University’s highest honors for graduating seniors. Colleen Mulholland of Clermont earned the 2010 Etter McTeer Turner Award, which recognizes outstanding academic performance, leadership and community service.  Florencia Abelenda of Miami and Zach Whiting of Spirit Lake, Iowa, each received a 2010 Sydney Algernon Sullivan […]