Alumna Risa Matthews takes on the lastest trend in corporate sponsorship with HGTV & DIY

When advertisers want their products featured on shows like “House Hunters” on HGTV, alumna Risa Matthews, ‘02, figures out ways to integrate them seamlessly into segments without it looking like traditional product placement or advertisements.

What she does is called “product integration,” and it’s used to feature all kinds of products from baked beans to paint and everything in between.

Killingsworth to take on NFL with marketing role at St. Louis Rams

He made a name for himself in Major League Baseball by successfully rebranding the Tampa Bay Rays just before the team went all the way to the World Series in 2008. Now alumnus Brian Killingsworth, ‘00, is heading to the gridiron as vice president of marketing and brand strategy for the NFL’s St. Louis Rams.

At the start of the 2008 season, the Tampa Bay Rays unveiled a new logo and name. Killingsworth was on the front lines for rebranding, even bringing in Kevin Costner to help kick it all off. The entire process was a success, and it certainly wasn’t hurt by the Rays outstanding season.

Alumnus Ben Meredith builds business out of love for ‘preppy Fashion’

In an effort to stand out in the vanilla world of business casual, attorney and Flagler alumnus Ben Meredith, ‘07, began wearing bowties to work. Nearly a year later, he’s turned his personal style into a profitable business.

College plans restoration of the Hotel Ponce de Leon’s solarium

Alumna works with film festival highlighting Muslim women

Of all the news coming out of predominantly Muslim countries, many of the women living there wish the Western media spoke more about women who are fighting against repression and less about the abuses they endure.

Alumna Cassandra Schaffa, ’05, found herself helping spread that very message after she answered an ad on Craigslist last year. Schaffa was in her last year of her master’s degree in cinema studies at New York University when she stumbled upon an ad for an internship at a unique film festival.

An improved campus takes shape one detail at a time thanks to landscape architect Sharon Fowler

Senior Jillian McClure’s love of civil rights history leads to activist Andrew Young’s visit to Flagler

Sometimes roadblocks turn out to be open doors.

That’s what happened to history major Jillian McClure when she wanted to register for a religion class her sophomore year. When that class was full, she picked “Civil Rights Movement” with Dr. Michael Butler, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Alumna Summer Bozeman writes book on St. Augustine

Alumna Summer Bozeman’s passion for St. Augustine’s past turned into a paying gig when she was tapped to author a pictorial book on the Nation’s Oldest City.

When Bozeman graduated from Flagler in 2007, she bought several books on St. Augustine history and found herself fascinated by many of the historic photos.

Flagler’s logo will soon have a more sophisticated look, and the school colors will receive a much-needed update.

College President William T. Abare Jr. recently approved the updates after a study of existing logos and visuals used by the college. Abare says the need to redesign was largely driven by confusion over which college logo was the “official” visual identity.

Alumnus Mike Galluzzi works to eliminate redundancies in America’s space program while NASA transitions from the shuttle to the moon and beyond

Mike Galluzzi, ’88, is in the business of space. And right now the space business is in a period of transition.

The current shuttle program is set to retire by September 2010, leaving a gap in human space transportation for at least a few years while the new “Constellation” program takes off. Constellation’s plans echo the heyday of the space program with exploration of the moon and eventually manned missions to Mars.