Top Stories:

• On Aug. 10, CRI Radio China reported that Professor of Excellence in Trial Advocacy and Director of the Center for Excellence in Advocacy Charles H. Rose was featured in a segment by the Beijing Hour regarding the anniversary of Ferguson shooting.

• Stetson students are going to be sharing an assisted living facility with senior citizens—the former Clarion Hotel, which creates a possibility for internships and volunteering to help the elderly, first reported in the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Aug. 11, and picked up by the AP, Aug. 12, and ran in The Washington Times, The News Observer, Lexington Herald-Leader Online and 34 other news media outlets. It was also reported on many Orlando TV news stations, and other TV news affiliates, including, WJHG, in Panama City.

• Clay Henderson, director of Stetson University’s newly established Institute for Water and Environmental Resilience, hopes to bring about new policy changes that will help the environment, as reported in The Daytona Beach News-Journal on Aug. 10.

• On Aug. 7, Professor of Law Peter Lake was interviewed by IT News regarding a new integrated framework for improving campus safety called the 32 National Campus Safety Initiative.

• Associate Professor and Chair of Psychology Chris Ferguson, Ph.D., provided commentary on why video games do no cause violent behaviors in an article on WBIR on Aug. 6. Additional coverage: 13WMAZ, Individual, NWCN, The Des Moines Register and Poughkeepsie Journal. Ferguson also provided commentary on children’s exposure to computers in an article in Aquarius Magazine on Aug. 11.

• Jason Evans, Ph.D., assistant professor of Environmental Science, was featured in a Q&A on The Texas Tribune about the climate on Aug. 11.

• On Aug. 8, The Tampa Bay Times interviewed Associate Dean and Professor of Law Susan Rozelle regarding the necessity defense in the Doug Hughes’ gyrocopter case.

• Visiting Assistant Professor of Journalism Andy Dehnart, M.F.A., wrote an article about interesting reality TV shows in Reality Blurred on Aug. 6. Dehnart, whose online bio includes his teaching career at Stetson University, produces, owns and operates this popular online publication.

• Stetson University was one of the questions in the nationally televised “Jeopardy” (hyperlinked on this CBS affiliate), Aug. 6. The ‘answer’ was: “This university in DeLand was named for a hat manufacturer who provided financial assistance.”

Alumni in the News:

• Russell Schropp, Stetson alumnus, was named to Florida Trend Magazine’s Twelfth Annual Legal Elite, a list that represents less than two percent of Florida’s lawyers who are held in the highest regard as professional attorneys, covered in Press Release and Contacto Latino News on Aug. 9.

• Bradford J. Cunningham, Stetson alumnus, has been appointed to Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Gilla Inc., a designer, marketer and manufacturer of E-liquids for vaporizers, reported by CNN Money, Yahoo! Finance, NASDAQ and 35 other news media outlets on Aug. 11.

• On Aug. 5, Trans World News featured Stetson Law alumnus Michael Babboni in an article about the potentially deadly safety defect with Dodge Ram pick-ups.

• On Aug. 6, WMFE interviewed Stetson Law alumnus and adjunct Jay Wolfson about the Fallout Planned Parenthood in Florida.

• On Aug. 7, Stetson Law alumna Melody Lynch was featured in an article by the Orlando Business Journal about her transition from dancing to practicing law.