The arrival on campus on Monday of more than 100 football recruits marked the start of a new era for both Stetson Athletics and Stetson University. The fresh-faced recruits reported for the start of the first football training camp in more than 50 years. The players and their families were welcomed to campus during a […]
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Stetson University Executive MBA students floated between two continents as they sailed down the Bosphorus Strait between the European and Asian side of Istanbul. Astonishing views of architectural jewels like the Dolmabahce Palace, the Ortakoy Mosque and Bosphorus Bridge were glowing in the distance. Twenty-five students embarked on a trip of a lifetime this summer […]
Continue ReadingThe Stetson women’s soccer program will celebrate 20 years of Hatter history this weekend, highlighted by an Alumni Contest and postgame festivities for current and former players on Saturday, August 4. “It’s a new beginning for Stetson Soccer,” Head Coach Julie Orlowski said earlier this week. “We have a new facility and a lot of […]
Continue ReadingFormer Stetson University golfer Sam Ryder has been named a Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholar for the 2011-2012 season by the Golf Coaches Association of America. It is the second consecutive year Ryder, a Longwood, Fla., native, has received the award. He is one of the 146 Division I golfers to be honored. Ryder competed in […]
Continue ReadingThe long approach to Lawtey Correctional Institution is unsettling as much for its unbroken monotony as anything else: The highway a plumb line of hot macadam, the slash pines in ordered rows. The prison, one of the largest in Florida, sits in the flyspeck of Starke, an eye blink of a town an hour west […]
Continue ReadingHatters don’t just stand back and watch. Oh no. When we are made aware of significant struggles that local youth endure, the Stetson community steps in and provides them with tools for self-empowerment and success. When we discover that there is a significant problem involving tens of thousands of homeless kids and families in Central Florida, Stetson students, alumni […]
Continue ReadingStetson University senior Emmanuel Delgado has been awarded the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study in Spain this fall. An international business major from DeLand, Fla., Delgado is one of only 1,159 students in the United States to receive the scholarship this year. He received an award of $4,500 to travel and study […]
Continue ReadingEvery Tuesday and Thursday morning this spring, students in Professor Robert Batey’s spring seminar class at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Fla., cracked open their books to discuss the latest assigned readings. It was a typical law school seminar, except instead of poring over case law, Professor Batey’s students are reading Kafka and watching Spike […]
Continue ReadingStetson University will be one of two host sites for the 20th Annual Celebrity Mascot Games hosted by the Central Florida Sports Commission to benefit New Hope For Kids. Stetson’s own mascot, John B, will join a talented group of mascots participating in this year’s event at both Stetson’s Edmunds Center and Orlando’s Amway Center from […]
Continue ReadingStetson Men’s Basketball Head Coach Casey Alexander announced that Roger Idstrom has been promoted to Associate Head Coach for the Hatters on Tuesday morning. Idstrom joined the Stetson staff in May of 2011 as an assistant coach. “Roger is an integral part of our basketball program, and this is a way to publically recognize his […]
Continue ReadingThe Stetson women’s soccer program is pleased to announce the addition of former Hatter soccer player Stephanie Webb to its staff. Webb will be coming on as an assistant coach for the 2012-2013 season, as announced by Head Coach Julie Orlowski on Monday afternoon. “We are happy to have her back in the Hatter family […]
Continue ReadingThe annual Physics Department newsletter, Cross Section, is out – featuring news and photos of the department’s alumni, current students, faculty and incoming faculty. Highlights of the newsletter include: A welcome to Allan Thomas: Stetson’s new visiting assistant professor from the University of Arkansas. Thomas will be teaching College Physics and Electricity and Magnetism in the fall, […]
Continue ReadingStetson University’s Theatre Arts program will have four productions open to the public during the 2012-13 academic year, including a popular musical during the fall Homecoming. The schedule is as follows: An Evening at the Improv, features fun and games with Stetson student improv-artists. Performances will run Sept. 27-29, at 8 p.m., with a matinee […]
Continue ReadingDELAND, Fla. – The Stetson tennis program has added more individual and team honors to its wealth of summer accolades. Recent graduate Maksim Levanovich (Minsk, Belarus) earned a second postgraduate scholarship, 11 student-athletes were named ITA Scholar-Athletes, and both the men’s and women’s squads earned ITA All-Academic status. Levanovich, who has already received a number […]
Continue ReadingTeamwork. It’s part of every student’s experience in virtually every Stetson University School of Business Administration class. That is the main reason MBA students functioned like a well-oiled machine when Peggy Stahl’s Management Strategy class turned its attention to helping an established local business, Fogleman Studio of DeLand. “At this point in our academic careers, […]
Continue ReadingStetson University athletics had a banner year in the class room during the 2011-12 academic year, placing better than 70 percent of the school’s student-athletes on the Atlantic Sun Conference honor rolls for the year. The league, as a whole, saw its student-athletes perform at a very high level. More than 65 percent of the […]
Continue ReadingIn May, 20 students from Stetson University and nearby Bethune-Cookman University shared a journey that covered 1,900 miles through the countryside of England, Cornwall, Wales and Scotland. Part of the field course “The Early English Landscape,” the students had the opportunity for two weeks to see how man and nature have interacted over the past […]
Continue ReadingStetson University will get a boost to its recycling efforts this summer thanks to a grant from The Coca-Cola Foundation. Stetson will receive 24 recycling bins designed specifically for placement at several campus locations, including the new Stetson Cove apartments and the new Athletics Field House. “Through our partnership with Keep America Beautiful, the Coca-Cola […]
Continue ReadingSixty-two Stetson University Integrative Health Science students visited and studied at the anatomy lab at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine in Orlando this past school year, led by Stetson IHS Lab Coordinator and Instructor Guenevere Rae. Stetson students followed along with the UCF medical students using the same textbook and had an […]
Continue ReadingStetson University has been named to The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges, 2012 edition, which highlights the nation’s most eco-friendly campuses. The list, presented by Princeton Review in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council, includes colleges and universities that demonstrate a strong commitment to sustainability. Schools were reviewed qualitatively and quantitatively, using […]
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