Ave Maria

The website AveWatch.com, an anonymous blog dedicated to the workings of Ave Maria University and town, is shutting down after four years. AveWatch maintained a decidedly negative slant against Ave Maria University and founder Tom Monaghan from the outset, when ...

Two professors at Edison State College have been honored with national awards. Humanities Chairman Russell Swanson and English professor Marty Ambrose were both selected for a National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development award.

Ave Maria University founder Tom Monaghan joined dozens of other billionaires in recently committing to give away large chunks of their wealth as part of a pact. The Giving Pledge, thought up by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, is a ...

The prospect of a large, secular biomedical research complex close to the campus of Ave Maria University will spark "heated controversy over the role of religion in science," AMU president Nick Healy said in a speech Thursday night.

They want a referendum, deeper private pockets, county budget cuts or more information. For certain, none of the candidates seeking election to the Collier County Commission accept the Maine-based Jackson Laboratory proposal as it stands now, with taxpayers potentially footing ...

More than 200 Ave Maria School of Law students spent Thursday afternoon volunteering at three local charities for their annual community service project.

The U.S. Department of Education has released its latest assessments of the financial strength of all colleges and universities that accept federal student aid, and the results for Ave Maria University and the Ave Maria School of Law are significantly ...

If you’re a proponent of the idea of using taxpayer support to fund the first stage of what is hoped will be a job-creating advanced medical hub at the Ave Maria site, you’re not going to like the tenor of ...

In July 2009, only 14 homes had closed in the previous 12 months. Since then, more than 40 have sold and dozens more are pending. The entirety of Collier County is seeing an increase in activity, with a 42 percent ...

Farmer Mike’s had a land lease to grow on 542 acres at Ave Maria in eastern Collier County, court records show. The lease ran from July 1, 2009, to June 30, 2010. Barron Collier is owed $72,400 in rent, plus ...

A wake and prayer service will be held from 3 to 7 p.m., Friday, with the prayer service starting at 6 p.m. A funeral Mass for Klucik is scheduled for 10 a.m., Saturday. The regularly scheduled 9 a.m. Mass on ...

The Guadalupe Center in Immokalee helped six Immokalee High School students, including Ana, have that first college experience before they were even accepted. The Tutor Corps program, which was created to help Immokalee high school students graduate high school and ...

Don’t look to Maine to get an idea of what Jackson Laboratory may be able to do in terms of fostering the development of a biomedical campus near Ave Maria. That’s because the nonprofit genetics research institute hasn’t focused on ...

The town of Ave Maria is many things, but now residents can add "unusual" to that list. Fortune Magazine and CNNMoney.com named Ave Mara to a list of just five towns and communities it is calling "America's most unusual planned ...

The trip to Maine this weekend likely did the trick for two Collier County commissioners. After separate tours of Jackson Laboratory’s genetics research campus, meeting its scientists and listening to presentations about the future of genetics-based medicine, commissioners Donna Fiala ...