Internationally renowned trumpeter Bobby Shew will join the Stetson University Jazz Ensemble in concert for the first of its spring concert series, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m., in the Stetson Room, second floor of the Carlton Union Building, 131 E. Minnesota Ave., on Stetson’s DeLand campus. The public is invited to attend. For tickets, contact […]
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Seven years after she first stepped foot onto Stetson University’s campuses, Executive Vice President and Provost, Elizabeth L. “Beth” Paul, Ph.D., announced she is leaving in mid-June to become President of Capital University near Columbus, Ohio. As Stetson University’s executive vice president and provost, Paul is the University’s senior academic officer and leads the University’s […]
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Forty years is a long time, time that Dan Gunderson, professor of art, has dedicated to sharing his wealth of knowledge to students and faculty at Stetson University. In celebration of his dedication to Stetson and his accomplishments as an artist, Gunderson will give a gallery talk in Sampson Hall at 6 p.m., on Friday, Feb. […]
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Stetson University moves forward in creating A Diverse Community of Inclusive Excellence.
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Stetson University’s School of Music and the Guitar Program, will present Peruvian guitarist/composer Jorge Caballero in concert on Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 7:30 p.m. Known for his dazzling virtuosity, intense musicality and spellbinding performances, Caballero is regarded as one of the finest guitarists of his generation. He is the youngest musician and the only guitarist to […]
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Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938) is regarded as one of America’s most influential modernist painters, and Stetson University is proud to house a large collection of more than 1,000 pieces of his works that were donated by his daughter, Vera Bluemner Kouba. For the uninitiated, Bluemner was a German-born painter who immigrated to the United States at the […]
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Considered by many to be the best Ragtime/Boogie-Woogie pianist in the world, Bob Milne will be performing at Stetson University’s Lee Chapel, 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 19. Lee Chapel is located inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., on Stetson’s DeLand campus. The performance is open to the public, free of charge. Although Milne comes […]
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Aspiring and established writers alike will have an amazing opportunity to hone their craft and travel the globe with a brand new residency program being launched at Stetson University in January 2016. “We are bringing in amazing instructors and visiting writers for our first master of fine arts residency in January,” explained Mark Powell, associate […]
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2015 is in the books. For Stetson University it was one for the books. With great pride, let us reflect on our accomplishments. 2016 – bring it on!
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“Telling stories seemed a natural, inevitable process, like clearing the throat. Partly catharsis, partly communication, it was a way of grabbing people by the shirt and explaining exactly what had happened to me,” wrote Tim O’Brien, Vietnam veteran, in his book The Things They Carried, on why it was important for him to write. Vietnam […]
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Stetson University presents Reflections on Vietnam: An Oral History Performance, Saturday, Nov. 14, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 15, at 3 p.m., in Stetson Theatre Arts’ “Second Stage” located inside the Museum of Art, 600 N. Woodland Blvd., adjacent to the DeLand campus. Complementing the Vietnam Memorial Remembrance Site that will be dedicated on Saturday, Nov. […]
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Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Florida, has again been designated a Military Friendly School by Victory Media. “At Stetson, we are dedicated to making sure that those who served receive the benefits and respect they deserve,” said Professor Stacey-Rae Simcox, director of the Veterans Advocacy Clinic at Stetson. “We also take pride in […]
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It’s nearly 1 p.m., and you didn’t eat breakfast this morning. It’s the lunch rush, so it’ll be at least 20 minutes for an egg and cheese bagel at Einstein’s. You utter the words, “I’m starving.” Starving. Famished. Hungry. We use these terms as daily colloquiums without fully grasping the context of the word. The […]
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$80 million earmarked for student, faculty support. Stetson University has launched a $150 million comprehensive campaign, its first fundraising campaign since 2009. The Beyond Success — Significance campaign comes at a time when Stetson is celebrating unprecedented growth: it recently welcomed its largest incoming class in its 132-year history, and its DeLand, Fla., campus is […]
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Growing up, Stetson University Trustee J. Hyatt Brown, CPCU, CLU, chairman of the Board of Brown & Brown, Inc., expected to be in the insurance industry like his father, Adrian Brown, who founded Brown & Owen Insurance Agency in 1939. What Hyatt did not expect was to be honored earlier this year with a prestigious […]
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“Just like writing about the future is a way of talking about the past, fairy tales are a way of talking about the real world,” said Salman Rushdie while presenting his new novel, Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights during an event at Miami Dade College in mid-September. Rushdie is the dedicated author of […]
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A new grant in the amount of $400,000 was awarded to Stetson University College of Law for the National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology and the Law to develop a forensic evidence training program for lawyers who work on death penalty cases. “This training program is crucial at a time when life or death often hinges on the […]
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For the 11th year, Stetson University will host the Naturalization Ceremony in partnership with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, when 50 immigrants from 27 countries will take the oath of citizenship to the United States. This year’s ceremony will take place at 12 p.m., Monday, Sept. 21, in Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. […]
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When Jaclyn Nesheiwat Stapp ’02 was only eight, she used to visit a children’s hospital where her mother worked. There she would play with the children, who quickly became her friends. One day she met a little girl who had cerebral palsy. She wanted to get to know her better so she spent the day combing […]
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Growth surpasses goal for 2016. When Stetson University President Wendy B. Libby, Ph.D., came to the college in 2009, her administration set a goal for enrollment, believing they could grow to 3,000 undergraduates by 2016. That goal has been met a year ahead of schedule with 3,084 undergraduate students in Fall 2015, a 4.7 percent increase […]
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