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Our Flagler family got a bit bigger on Friday, January 14th. In true Flagler fashion, we welcomed the new Saints to campus with a week full of events to help them get familiar with their new community.

Over 2,000 students came out to events throughout the week, to celebrate their shared love of the famed Harry Potter series.

The Flagler Fast Track Master's program was started at Flagler College to give undergraduate Deaf Education majors an opportunity to pursue higher education related to their specific field of study. Students can begin taking courses for their Master's degree while in the undergraduate program, saving them both time and money.

By Danielle Filjon In sunny Loma Linda, California, there is a community of people who live decades longer than the average American. Fascinated by this concept of longevity, Flagler College student Maiya Mahoney spent the past summer investigating the cause of this phenomenon as part of a Pulitzer Center grant.

The NOAA’s National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) Science Collaborative awarded Flagler College and the Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) a $600,000 grant for their project “From Past to Present: Ecosystem Services and People at the Guana River,” led by Sarah Miller (Project Lead), Emily Jane Murray (Collaborative Lead), and Lori Lee (Technical Lead). The project will begin October 1, 2021, and end September 30, 2024.

Flagler's online student newspaper has won more than 120 awards since 2007

As a Spanish and graphic design double major, Michelle Henning never thought playing piano would be her "In" for graduate school. However, what's become an all-too-familiar refrain of the "Caring faculty" at Flagler, has continued to ring true, especially for this 2018 graduate.

If you haven't already listened, you should. New alumna and now staff member, Administrative Assistant in the Education Department Rachel Ihasz, '20, gets busy every Monday ensuring we make it through the day by hosting fun guests on her show, "A Case of the Mondays."

On Monday, Feb. 22 first-year student Ashley Williams was awarded the Presidential Volunteer Service Award in the Alumni House. Some fellow athletes were able to join in person to support Ashley, while her family excitedly attended virtually through a special link provided them by the Office of Special Events at the College.

On Tuesday, Feb. 9 from 2-4 p.m. the biannual event will take place in the Virginia Room of the Ringhaver Student Center. President Joyner will officially recognize the 166 honorees in a ceremony-only type format, different from previous years when a reception with family and faculty rounded out the experience.

Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts and Program Director for Music Kip Taisey has made the most of this year's restrictions on public performance. His students, and in turn his discipline on campus, has remained very engaged throughout the past semester as they figured out ways to stay active and hone their craft.

The Flagler College Honors Program will be focused on “Communities in Context” as its theme for the program’s fifth year. Associate Director Rachel Cremona said the theme was chosen because it will allow students to “Use your community as your book.” In the community of St. Augustine, that book includes a lot of layers. “This should focus students to help them move into their new community, their new family.”

On Saturday, May 4, Flagler College will hold its spring commencement exercises and hand out more than 400 diplomas.

Flagler College handed out diplomas to 402 seniors on Saturday at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre, including 27 locals from St. Augustine and Ponte Vedra Beach.

President Joyner hosted the annual Sociable Association of Satisfied Saints (SASS) luncheon and award ceremony on Thursday, April 19. The retired faculty members of SASS chose Nick Cuffy as this year’s scholarship recipient. The $1,000 scholarship is awarded to a student within any major, with a superior grade point average who also demonstrates financial need.

Flagler College’s Leslie Gordon welcomed Volunteers in Medicine (VIM), a non-profit clinic in downtown Jacksonville, to be this semester’s clients in her consumer behavior course. Gordon’s consumer behavior class is a senior-level marketing course that blends studies of psychology, sociology, anthropology, and communication.

On Thursday, April 26th, twenty-one seniors will be presenting their graphic design projects from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Virginia Room at Flagler College.

Ten students from Professor Lauren Tivey’s Introduction to Poetry Writing class, from the Fall semester of 2017, had worked for months crafting, editing, and polishing work to be presented at a formal reading at the end of the semester. Shortly after, Tivey’s colleague, editor David K. Jibson of "Third Wednesday", offered to publish the students as a feature in the upcoming spring 2018 issue.

Flagler College entered the 33rd Annual Educational Advertising Awards, sponsored by Higher Education Marketing Report, and won big.

This October marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of St. Augustine’s most beloved “plein air” painters, Emmett Fritz.