Learn How 511 Can Help You Navigate Back-To-School Traffic. As millions of students and educators across Florida prepare for the new school year, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) reminds parents, students and employees to stay safe and avoid traffic by using its free 511 Traveler Information System. FDOT’s 511 system provides real-time traffic information […]
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What did you do this summer? Third-year Stetson Law student Brandon Williams, pictured center, is spending his summer as an associate at a law firm in Madrid, Spain. The 26-year-old turned a Stetson study abroad experience into a springboard for a summer associate position at the Avego Abogados law firm in Madrid, Spain. While working in […]
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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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For the fourth consecutive year, the University of San Diego has been picked to win the Pioneer Football League regular-season race in a preseason vote of the league’s coaches. Stetson, which finished the 2014 season in a tie for sixth place, was picked to finish sixth in 2015, just the third for the Hatters program […]
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The Stetson University Football Women’s Clinic will be held Tuesday, Aug. 4, from 5:30-9 p.m. at the Athletic Training Center, located at 401 E. Minnesota Ave., on the DeLand campus. Space is limited to 100 women ages 18 and older. The cost is $75 per participant. Proceeds will benefit ME STRONG to help fight cancer. […]
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Stetson University men’s golf coach Larry Watson announced today the signing of one additional player for the 2015-16 season. Jared Nicolls, pictured right, comes to Stetson from Ponoka, Alberta, Canada, where he played for coach Ron Labrie at Ponoka Secondary. He was named Athlete of the Year for 2013 and 2014 while competing in volleyball, […]
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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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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 […]
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With an initial $500,000 gift to Stetson University with the explicit goal of teaching students how to invest money in the markets, Mrs. Roland George would be especially proud of the accomplishments of the students who gain acceptance to this program and the professors who keep a careful watch on what has grown into a […]
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Stetson University College of Law presented its annual awards to graduates and friends of the college in conjunction with the Florida Bar Annual Convention June 24-27 in Boca Raton. Scott Bruin B.A. ’75, pictured center with College of Law Dean Christopher Pietruszkiewicz, and Stetson President Wendy B. Libby, was presented the Distinguished Service Award in recognition […]
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Stetson Director of Tennis, Pierre Pilote, has announced his resignation after 22 years of coaching with the Hatters, Director of Athletics Jeff Altier announced today. Pilote, the 2015 Atlantic Sun Conference Coach of the Year in women’s tennis, has accepted a position as the Executive Director of Tennis at the Shanghai-based American College Development Services. […]
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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 […]
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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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Hala ElAarag, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science, was awarded the 2015 Faculty Mentoring Award from the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). ElAarag is the vice president and president-elect of the Consortium of Computer Sciences in College and worked as a counselor in the Mathematics and Computer Sciences […]
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Former Stetson catcher/outfielder Garrett Russini will not have to travel very far to begin his career as a professional baseball player. Russini, a Sarasota native and product of Braden River High, signed a free agent contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates and begins his career playing for the Gulf Coast League Pirates in Bradenton, Fla. Russini […]
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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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The Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants (FICPA) bestowed its highest honor on Stetson’s own Judson Stryker, D.B.A., on Friday, June 12, at the Dolphin Hotel at DisneyWorld during its annual meeting. This award recognizes full-time college accounting educators for excellence in teaching and for national prominence in the accounting profession. Stryker has been with […]
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