Stetson University has received this year’s Engaged Campus Award for colleges and universities in the independent sector, and Stetson junior Chelsea Lincoln has won the Students in Service Award, from Florida Campus Compact. The awards were presented at Florida Campus Compact’s recent 2011 Awards Gala inOrlando. Florida Campus Compact is a coalition of more than […]
Continue ReadingStetson University will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its Beckerath Organ on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 4 and 5, with a series of guest recitals, receptions and talks to be held on Stetson’s DeLand campus. The recitals will be held in Lee Chapel, inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd. An observance of the 50th […]
Continue ReadingEric Canny, an experienced international educational administrator who has traveled to 45 countries and lived in four different countries, has been named director of international learning at Stetson University. Canny will lead Stetson’s efforts to deepen international and intercultural learning and to integrate those opportunities across academic disciplines and amongst students, faculty and staff. The […]
Continue ReadingStetson University is dedicating the 2011-2012 academic year to one of life’s most precious natural resources: water. The central Florida university has adopted “water sustainability” as its theme this year as part of its broader commitment to environmental responsibility. “Water sustainability is a critical issue in Florida,” said Dr. William J. Ball, visiting associate professor […]
Continue ReadingApproximately 200 of Stetson University’s top students were inducted into Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society, the oldest and largest freshman honor society, at a Re-Chartering and Induction Ceremony at Stetson’s Carlton Union Building this week. Phi Eta Sigma was originally chartered at Stetson in 1978, but the chapter had been inactive since the mid-1990s. […]
Continue ReadingThe Family Enterprise Center of Stetson University’s School of Business Administration will host the fall meeting of the Association for Managers of Innovation – an international conference at which managers from industry will share what they’re doing to facilitate innovation in their companies or organizations. AMI’s Fall 2011 Meeting, “Generational Innovation: A Source for Inspiration […]
Continue ReadingStetson University alumni Andy Dehnart and Jeff Hidek are experts in a great American pastime: television. As a journalist covering reality TV (Dehnart) and a TV critic for the Wilmington, N.C., StarNews (Hidek), the two are very knowledgeable about the best – and worst – shows on television. So they were perfect picks to be […]
Continue ReadingVeteran Volusia County Schools administrator Dr. Chris Colwell is joining the faculty at Stetson University – becoming the first “third generation” professor in Stetson’s history. Colwell will be an associate professor of teacher education, as well as director of undergraduate education and chair of the Undergraduate Teaching Council. His grandfather, Ernest Cadman (Pomp) Colwell, was a professor […]
Continue ReadingEditor’s Note: This news release was provided by Partners of the Americas Dr. J. Anthony Abbott, Stetson University associate professor of geography and environmental science and director of the university’s environmental science program, will travel to Colombia on a Climate Change Fellowship offered by Partners of the Americas through the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau […]
Continue ReadingStetson Director of Athletics Jeff Altier is proud to announce that Roger A. Hughes has been named head coach of the Stetson University football team. Hughes becomes the ninth head football coach in the history of the program that ran from 1894 through 1956 and will begin play again in 2013. He was selected from […]
Continue ReadingStetson University Provost Beth Paul announced today that Professor Royal C. Gardner will serve as interim dean of the College of Law beginning in early July. Dean Darby Dickerson has accepted a deanship at Texas Tech University School of Law. “I am confident that the strong momentum at Stetson University College of Law will continue […]
Continue ReadingDr. Raymond Barclay, a senior associate at the North Carolina-based consulting firm Arroyo Research Services, will become Stetson University’s director of institutional research and planning on July 11. He succeeds Dr. John Tichenor, who will now teach full-time as an associate professor in Stetson’s School of Business Administration. “We are fortunate to attract Ray here […]
Continue ReadingStetson Athletics is proud to announce that Director of Athletics Jeff Altier has been named as the Under Armour Division I Southeast AD of the Year. “I am honored to be recognized by my peers and members of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics as the Under Armour Southeast region Division I Athletic […]
Continue ReadingThree Stetson University faculty members – Dr. Jamil Khader, English; Dr. Lloyd Linney, voice; and Dr. Carolyn Young Nicholson, marketing – have been promoted to the rank of professor, effective in August. Dr. Jamil Khader, College of Arts & Sciences: A Palestinian from Israel, Khader completed his Ph.D. in English Literature at Pennsylvania State University, […]
Continue ReadingStetson University’s Stover Theatre announces four productions for the 2011-12 academic year – the theatre’s 106th season. Almost Maine, by John Cariani, will run Sept. 22-25, 2011, at Stover Theatre, 535 N. Florida Ave., on the Stetson campus. Performances will be at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 22-24, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25. […]
Continue ReadingStetson University’s Stover Theatre announces four productions for the 2011-12 academic year – the theatre’s 106th season. Almost Maine, by John Cariani, will run Sept. 22-25, 2011, at Stover Theatre, 535 N. Florida Ave., on the Stetson campus. Performances will be at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 22-24, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25. […]
Continue ReadingStetson University has been awarded a $10,000 grant through the Volusia County Tree Replacement Fund to restore part of the Volusia Sandhill Ecosystem and create a teaching landscape for students and the public in the area around the Rinker Environmental Learning Center and Gillespie Museum on Stetson’s DeLand campus. The project starts this month with […]
Continue ReadingStetson University has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for the fifth consecutive year by the Corporation for National and Community Services for commendable community service programs. The Community Service Honor Roll annually recognizes institutions of higher education for their commitment and achievement in community service. This is the highest […]
Continue ReadingThe National Science Foundation has awarded Stetson University a $200,000 grant to develop a new chemistry and biochemistry curriculum centered around hands-on labs and research using a state-of-the-art 400 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer. Through the NSF’s Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science (TUES), Technology, Engineering and Mathematics program, Stetson will develop new ways to […]
Continue ReadingStetson University’s Dr. Michael Denner, a scholar of War and Peace author Leo Tolstoy and associate professor of Russian Studies, is retracing the author’s long walk in 1886 from his house in Moscow to his ancestral estate, Yasnaya Polyana, outside of Tula. Denner and fellow Tolstoy scholar Dr. Thomas Newlin, a professor at Oberlin College […]
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