Spanish Students Restore Dining Hall’s Historic Murals

In what is expected to be the first of many art and cultural exchanges, students from St. Augustine’s sister city, Aviles, Spain, spent part of the summer restoring murals in Flagler College’s historic dining hall.

The students were from the Aviles School of Art, and the restoration marked the start of a relationship between Flagler and the Spanish school.

Hope Rises in ‘The Land of Horrors’

O’Keefe, ‘80, looks back on life-changing trip to Rwanda

They are faces she can’t get out of her mind. Stories that are now etched in her consciousness — that haunt, or even inspire her on a daily basis.

For Kathy O’Keefe, a 1980 alumna and Flagler College’s former alumni director, the nine-day trip to Kigali, Rwanda, this past summer was something she could only describe as a life-changing experience.

Audio Slideshow: Kathy O’Keefe Speaks About Trip to Rwanda

Flagler College Magazine Wins MarCom, CASE Awards

Flagler College Magazine won a platinum award in the 2009 MarCom Awards’ magazine/educational institution category, as well as a special merit award in the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education’s (CASE) District III awards competition.

Others MarCom platinum award winners included Carnegie Mellon University, John Hopkins University, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, University of Kansas, University of Pittsburgh and nine others. The MarCom Awards is an international competition for marketing and communication professionals. Entries come from corporate marketing and communication departments, advertising agencies, PR firms, design shops, production companies and freelancers.

Professors Abroad: Timothy Johnson in Milan

In what he called one of the high points of his career, Timothy Johnson, professor of religion and Liberal Studies Chair at Flagler, presented research at a prestigious conference at Catholic University of Milan this past September.

Johnson joined scholars from around the world at the conference, “Religiosity and Civilization, Religious Forms of Identity,” which was hosted by the university’s Department of Medieval Studies. He was one of only two Americans invited to attend — the other was from Princeton University.

SIFE competes at world cup in Germany

Flagler College’s Students in Free Enterprise took its national championship team to Berlin to compete at the SIFE World Cup in October.
This was the second time FCSIFE has made it to the world stage, and they represented the United States alongside teams from 40 countries, including Brazil, China, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and [...]

Architectural Scavenger Hunt

For alumni, going to Flagler meant being constantly surrounded by architectural gems and detail work that was the hallmark of the former Ponce de Leon Hotel — today a National Historic Landmark. But while you might have seen them every day, how well do you remember all of those intricate accents around campus? Test your memory — and take a stroll down memory lane — by naming where the architectural details pictured here are found on campus.

Click on the image to get started.

Photos by Scott Smith, ‘04

A Day in the Life: Gabe Jacobs-Kierstein

Theater seems so … well … dramatic. But it’s not all bright lights and adoring audiences. What you see on stage is the culmination of a lot of hard work behind the scenes before anyone takes a seat. Before the actors even step on stage, there’s plenty of pre-performance preparation from make-up and cast meetings to line rehearsing and psyching themselves up in a host of unique ways.

SIFE wins second national title

Flagler Students in Free Enterprise become two-time national champs

Whether teaching Nepalese refugees or training young employees on workplace ethics, the Flagler College Students In Free Enterprise team produced several unique projects this year that not only helped others, but also earned them a second national championship.

Students take host of major awards, scholarships

Flagler College students and recent grads landed a number of awards and scholarships during the spring semester

Flagler Art Faculty in Naples Museum of Art exhibition

Two of Flagler’s art faculty members are part of a new Naples Museum of Art exhibit called “Florida Contemporary” that brings together 50 of the state’s photographers and painters.

Associate Professor Patrick Moser and Assistant Professor Sara Pedigo, both painters, were picked for the exhibition that showcases the rich variety of artists living and working in the state from realism to abstraction. The museum calls the show “an overview of the innovative images, subject matter and mediums that characterize the work being created in the state today.”