Top Stories:

•Stetson has taken steps to improve showcasing student art in the Hand Art Center by making a switch to use Videotel’s VP71 industrial digital signage media player which is more viewer-friendly, as covered by Townhall Finance on Aug. 4, The San Diego Union-Tribune, American Public Media, and 60 other news media outlets.

•Law Dean Christopher Pietruszkiewicz is quoted in the July 30 Wall Street Journal  article, “Law Schools Fight Bar Association Over How Graduates’ Jobs Are Counted.” The article also ran in JDJournal. Dean Pietruszkiewicz is also quoted in the Aug.3 Bloomberg article, “Are Law Schools Skewing Job Placement Numbers.”

•On Aug. 3, Law Professor Peter Lake is quoted by the Chronicle of Higher Education in the article “Do Fraternities Have a Place on the Modern Campus?”

•On Aug. 2, Law adjunct professor and alumnus Jeffrey Brown is quoted by the Florida Times-Union in the article “Jacksonville death penalty case could be dismissed due to questions of speedy trial rights.”

Other News:

•According to the Aug. 4 Santa Monica Daily Press, the Stetson team is among the 16 student trial teams from some of the nation’s top law schools who have made the cut to participate in this year’s National Civil Trial Competition in Los Angeles.

•Bill Ball, Ph.D., visiting associate professor of political science, and creator of the university’s makerspace, was reported to be giving two presentations about 3D printing on Sunday, Aug. 2, and Wednesday, Aug. 5, at the Deltona Regional Library in an article by The Daytona Beach News-Journal and US Official News on July 31.

•Assistant Professor of History Leander Seah, Ph.D., provided commentary about the 70th anniversary of the Enola Gay’s delivery of the atomic bomb over Japan in Aug. 6, 1945, in World War II in an article by The Daytona Beach News-Journal on Aug. 6.

•News of a memorial at a Palm Beach County library, named in honor of Betty Batson Bell, founder of the Betty Batson Bell Lecture Series at Stetson, was recently covered by U.S. Official News on July 31.

•Jake Smith, Stetson student, delivered DeLand’s first secular invocation during a meeting of the DeLand City Commission, as reported in The Daytona Beach News-Journal, Aug. 1.

•Stetson is undergoing a huge growth to accommodate more students and, as the school grows, DeLand benefits, as reported in The Daytona Beach News-Journal on Aug. 2.

•Patrick Hennessey, Ph.D., director of Stetson’s Orchestra, will also be the director for The Space Coast Symphony’s JAZZ Orchestra during a concert at 7 p.m., Aug. 8 at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy’s Scott Center for the Performing Arts, as reported in Florida Today on Aug. 5.

•Psychology Chair Chris Ferguson, Ph.D., provided commentary on why video games do not cause violent behaviors in an article in Central Florida Future on Aug. 6.

•On July 30, KTRE featured Stetson Law student Brandon Williams in an article about his study abroad experience turned summer associate position in Spain.

•The exhibit “A Tradition of Contemporary Ceramics” at the Hand Art Center was featured on exhibits to see in Orlando Sentinel on July 30.

Alumni in the News:

•Brenda Blackburn, Stetson alumna, is one of three finalists to become Berkeley’s new superintendent, as reported in The Post and Courier on Aug. 1.

•On Aug. 2, The Tampa Tribune  featured Law alumna Sheila Scott Griffin in an article about the candidates for the District 7 Seat.

•According to the Aug. 4 PRLog, Law alumnus Forrest Bass is now Florida Bar Board Certified in Wills, Trusts and Estates.

•According to the Aug. 5 SpaceCoastDaily, Pete Sweeney and Andrew Lannon’s presentations were accepted for publication in the Stetson Law Review’s Local Government Law Symposium, the premier local government law publication in Florida.

•According to an Aug. 4 press release from Hurley Rogner Miller Cox & Waranch, P.A., Law grad W. Rogers Turner has been appointed vice chair of the Florida Bar Association’s Workers’ Compensation Board Certification Review Committee.

•Stetson alumnus, Casey B. Weade, a retirement-planning professional, provided commentary on how planning for retirement is harder because of hidden fees, explains what kinds of hidden fees exist, and gives solutions to this problem in an article featured on Life & Health on July 31.

•According to an Aug. 4 press release from Gray Robinson, GrayRobinson shareholder and Stetson Law alumnus John R. Herin, Jr. has obtained his board certification in City, County and Local Government Law from the Florida Bar’s Board of Legal Specialization & Education.

•Starting this fall, Stetson alumna Anna Barcenas will be the assistant principal at Lake Wales High School, as reported in News Chief and The Ledger on Aug. 3.