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New College Hosts 15th Year Of PUSH/SUCCESS. New College is helping two dozen middle and high school students prepare for careers in medicine and science with a program that takes them out on Sarasota Bay and into the College’s marine biology labs. It’s the 15th year of PUSH/SUCCESS, a program for students from demographics typically under-represented in science. Students arrive on June 6 for two weeks of intensive science training, from collecting samples to running experiments to preparing reports and presentations on their work. Among the activities: Collect water and plankton samples from the New College research boat Use microscopes […]
Anti-Semitism Essay Lands Adina Luft A Scholarship Award. Adina Luft, a fourth-year student at New College of Florida, is a winner of the Tampa Bay Consular Correspondent Corps’ scholarship contest for her essay on the reasons for the rise of anti-Semitism in societies. She will receive her $1,000 award from a representative of the Corps on Wednesday, Feb. 10, at 1:00 p.m. in the offices of the New College Foundation, in the Keating Center, 5800 Bay Shore Road, in Sarasota. For more on the Corps and the scholarship program, see http://www.tampabayconsularcorps.org/scholarship-contest.html
New College Ranks 14th In Kiplinger’s Top 100 Public Colleges. For the 13th consecutive year, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance has recognized New College of Florida as one of the nation’s best values in higher education. The magazine ranked New College 14th on its list of the 100 best values in public colleges for 2016. Kiplinger says its rankings “highlight public schools, private universities and private liberal arts colleges that combine outstanding academics with affordable cost.” When a school appears on the list multiple times, it is a “testament to the consistent value these colleges provide,” Kiplinger said. Kiplinger found that New […]
Donal O’Shea Co-Winner Of The 2016 Leroy P. Steele Award. President Donal O’Shea of New College of Florida is a co-winner of the 2016 American Mathematical Society’s Leroy P. Steele Award for Exposition, one of the highest distinctions in mathematics. O’Shea and fellow mathematicians David Cox and John Little received the award for their 1992 book Ideals, Varieties and Algorithms. Its fourth edition was released this year. “We are deeply honored to have been awarded the Steele prize,” O’Shea said. “Many wonderful books and papers in mathematics have appeared in the last few decades, and those singled out by the […]
New College Hosts 37th Annual Clambake. Get ready to slip on a pair of topsiders or wedges, gaze upon a stunning Sarasota Bay sunset, and crack into a savory lobster. The New College Foundation is hosting the 37th Annual Old-Fashioned New England Clambake, benefitting New College of Florida, from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, on the New College Bayfront. The event traditionally is a major source of support for scholarships for New College students, many of whom will be on hand to discuss what the scholarships and New College mean to them. The meal, including Maine lobster, New […]
New College Presents ‘Transformation Of The News Media’. Don Browne has seen everything – and knows everyone – in the news business. He rose from the head of NBC’s Miami news operation to the network’s executive vice president of news, where he ran the storied “Today” show and oversaw the creation of “Dateline NBC.” When NBC bought Telemundo, the network tapped him to run all aspects of the Spanish language network. When the network was sold, Browne resigned to start his own media consulting business. He will draw on his 44 years in the television industry in “The Transformation of […]
New College The #4 National Public Liberal Arts College. U.S. News & World Report ranked New College of Florida the No. 4 public liberal arts college in the nation, up one position from last year. The rankings, part of the “Best Colleges 2016” edition, were released on the magazine’s website. The ranking marks the 11th consecutive year New College has been listed in the top six public liberal arts colleges nationwide. New College trails only the nation’s three major military service academies in the category. New College also ranked 15th nationwide for “Least Debt” among all liberal arts colleges. New […]
New College Ranks On Top Again! New College of Florida was ranked No. 10 among the nation’s liberal arts colleges – and first among public liberal arts schools – in Washington Monthly magazine’s “2015 College Rankings” issue. Washington Monthly is unique among the prominent college guides because it takes a different approach to rankings: “This guide asks: Are we getting the most for our money?” its editors said on the magazine’s website. “We rank four-year colleges in America on three measures that would make the whole system better, if only schools would compete on them. The first is upward mobility: […]
New College One Of The Nation’s Best Colleges. The New College of Florida campus ranks No. 1 in the United States as “Easiest Campus to Get Around,” according to The Princeton Review’s just-released and popular college guide — and that’s far from the best thing it has to say about New College. Once again, the Princeton Review’s “The Best 380 Colleges” has praised New College’s excellent academics and faculty, available at a low cost to families. “The combination of NCF’s incredibly low tuition and rigorous, individualized academic program make it a tremendous value for both in-state and out-of-state students,” the […]
Professor Uzi Baram Receives FHC/NEH Research Grant. Uzi Baram, professor of anthropology at New College of Florida, received a $15,000 grant for a research project, “Tragedy and Survival: Bicentennial of the Southward Migration of Black Seminoles on the Florida Gulf Coast.” The “Tragedy and Survival” project stems from Baram’s successful public anthropology program “Looking for Angola,” which successfully identified traces of the 17th-century Angola community of escaped slaves, known as maroons, near Manatee Mineral Springs. Funding was provided through a grant from the Florida Humanities Council, with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Baram will work with Digital […]
Federal Research Grant Awarded To Justin Saarinen. Justin Saarinen, research scientist and geography instructor in the Environmental Studies program at New College of Florida, was awarded $105,221 in grants from the U.S. Geological Survey for a project titled “Geospatial Modeling for Prioritizing Coastal Wetland Restoration.” Saarinen and New College students will use GIS software and other technologies to develop geographic models for restoration planning along the coasts of the Great Lakes. The natural coastal wetland areas of the Great Lakes are largely converted to uses such as farms, industrial plants and subdivisions. A task force of 16 federal agencies and […]
New College Makes Fiske Guidebook To Colleges Ranking. The first of the major 2016 college guidebooks is out, and New College of Florida again starts the season ranked as a “Best Buy” college – one of just 20 public colleges in the United States to receive the designation in the respected and long-running Fiske Guide to Colleges. New College has appeared on Fiske’s “Best Buy” list since 2003. To be a “Best Buy,” colleges must meet Fiske’s criteria for a top four- or five-star ranking for academic excellence and be in its moderate- or low-price groups. The Guide’s review, based […]
New State Budget Funds Major Projects at New College. Florida’s new budget funds two major initiatives at New College of Florida: construction of the Heiser Natural Sciences Complex expansion, and programming at the Center for Engagement and Opportunity, or CEO, the College’s career services program. The budget sets aside $3 million for the first phase of the Heiser expansion, a 22,000-square-foot addition that will increase classroom, office and laboratory space by about 50 percent. It also includes $500,000 to support the CEO, which has dramatically increased the number of internships offered to New College students. “We’re pleased that the legislature […]
MaryAnne Young And Jessica Rogers Take Key Roles. New College of Florida announced new leadership for the New College Foundation. MaryAnne Young was selected as the new vice president for advancement and executive director of the New College Foundation. Jessica Rogers will serve as associate vice president for advancement and associate director of the Foundation. “I am very excited to join New College and President O’Shea’s team. I believe providing excellent, affordable education is essential in solving the issues facing our world,” Young said. “I was impressed by the exceptional faculty, enthusiastic students and devoted staff I met. I am […]
New College Set To Graduate 177 Students. New College of Florida announced it will award bachelor’s degrees to an expected 177 students in a sunset ceremony at 7pm this Friday, May 22, on the College’s Bayfront. The keynote speaker is Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, three-time nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize and author of the international best-seller “I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey.” Dr. Abuelaish is the founder and president of the Daughters for Life Foundation. New College and the Daughters for Life Foundation are partners in a program that brings young women from the Middle East to New […]
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Monday, June 6, 2016
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