Month: September 2019

NSU Opens its New Tampa Bay Regional Campus in Clearwater, Fla.

They said it couldn’t be done. What was deemed a mission impossible turned out to be possible through hard work, dedication, and perseverance.

Nova Southeastern University (NSU) is pleased to announce that its new Tampa Bay Regional Campus has debuted in Clearwater, Fla. The 311,000-square-foot facility at 3400 Gulf to Bay Boulevard features cutting-edge classrooms, expansive common areas and a two-story fitness center.

“We are immensely proud of this beautiful and state-of-the-art campus, a true Herculean effort by Moss, Baker Barrios, ACAI, all of our contractors, and of course, our dedicated NSU team,” said Dr. George Hanbury, President and CEO of NSU. “However, none of this would have been possible without Drs. Patel and their generous contributions of their time, their talent and their fortune.”

In celebration of its arrival and NSU’s expanded footprint in Florida, the university in collaboration with Drs. Kiran C. and Pallavi Patel held a ribbon cutting to mark this significant occasion. More than 500 attendees came out to participate in the revelry and to take in the completed building and grounds. This new campus was made possible through a generous donation by Drs. Patel of $230 million to NSU – $80 million in gifts and a $150 investment in real estate and facilities to build the facility.

NSU has been providing a wide range of educational programs in the Tampa Bay area since 1991. The new campus offers a broader curriculum and when fully occupied, it will have approximately 2,000 students and 125 faculty and staff.

The Tampa Bay Regional Campus is home to several educational programs, including serving as a branch site for NSU’s Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine. It welcomed its first class of 150 students in August 2019.

“It is more important than ever to advance the current state of health care,” said Dr. Kiran C. Patel. “I believe that NSU is the future of multi-disciplinary medical education and together, we will be able to capitalize on an opportunity that will be beneficial to millions of human lives–many right here in Florida and so many others around the globe.”

This new campus is home to the Ron and Kathy Assaf College of Nursing, the Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences, NSU’s College of Psychology and the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice. Some of the areas of study include cardiovascular sonography and speech language communication disorders programs, master’s degree candidates in anesthesia, clinical mental health counseling, criminal justice, developmental disabilities, family nurse practitioner, psychiatric mental health, school counseling, speech-language pathology and national security affairs and several online programs.

The NSU campus will focus on providing dynamic, personalized, multi-disciplinary education for graduates who want to become leaders with an edge over their competition in the workforce.

To view more photos from the event, click here.

KPCOM Establishes Health and Wellness Coaching Bachelor’s Program

The KPCOM received approval to launch its third bachelor’s degree program—a Bachelor of Science in Health and Wellness Coaching (HAWC) in partnership with NSU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS). The new program, which will begin in fall 2020, also offers students an option for an accelerated Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree program, as well as an option for dual admission into the CAHSS’s Master of Science in Family Therapy program.

The HAWC program will be offered as a traditional on-site, daytime model at the Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus. Faculty members from the KPCOM, the CAHSS, the Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography, and the College of Medical Sciences will teach the courses.

The curriculum will provide opportunities for the HAWC students to participate in global and domestic health outreach initiatives with undergraduate public health, nutrition, family studies, and pre-counseling students. Classroom instruction will be augmented with innovative, community-based, experiential learning opportunities that include the use of contemporary information technology.

Additionally, the curriculum will provide opportunities for immersion in experiential learning and clinical research. Curricular aspects will also encompass essential principles of human and family systems theories, varying perspectives of wellness and nutrition, public health, research methods and evaluation in coaching, ethics of coaching, and clinical practice.

Future graduates will attain the skills necessary to provide personalized health solutions for patient and clients in a holistic manner. This includes the ability to assess client lifestyles and family support systems, develop tailored diet and/or wellness plans, create health education materials, conduct health workshops and seminars, build a clinical practice, and apply solution-building strategies to coaching.

“We are very excited about this new bachelor’s program, since it will provide a unique pathway for students to enter the Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine,” said Phyllis Filker, D.M.D., M.P.H., associate dean of undergraduate, graduate, and community education. “The HAWC major also provides an opportunity for students not interested in becoming a physician to be a vital part of the health care team.”

NSU’s Guy Harvey Research Institute to Study Whale Shark Migrations

NSU’s Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI) and the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation partner with the popular ocean plastics clean-up company, 4Ocean, to study the migrations of the majestic whale shark, the world’s largest fish. 4Ocean and the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation have donated funds toward this research. The whale shark is a filter feeder that has swum the planet’s warm oceans for millions of years, and according to GHRI research this species can live for at least 130 years. But the whale shark is now endangered and in need of better scientific understanding for improving its conservation.

Established in 1999, GHRI is a collaboration between the renowned marine artist, scientist and explorer, Dr. Guy Harvey, and Nova Southeastern University’s Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography. The mission of the GHRI is to provide the scientific information necessary to understand, conserve, and effectively manage the world’s marine fishes and their ecosystems.

Halmos Faculty Consults For ‘Choral’, a Coral Art Installation in Chicago

On August 5, 2019, localStyle’s video art installation Choral began its two-month exhibition run at 150 North Riverside Plaza in Chicago, Illinois. The artists who designed the public art installation consulted with coral experts from Northwestern University, Shedd Aquarium, and Halmos faculty member Ph.D., Timothy Swain to learn about corals, current coral research, and the threats that coral reefs face worldwide.

The title ‘Choral’ is a homophonic pun because the artists see corals as the ‘voice of the Anthropocene’, the current geological age where human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and global ecology. In the Anthropocene, corals face a diversity of threats including the potential collapse of coral reef ecosystems globally due to oceanic heating caused by anthropogenic climate change. An interview that explains the background and motivations for the project and a short video can be found at https://150mediastream.com

NSU Students Conduct Environmental Research in Port Everglades

This summer, two NSU undergraduate students conducted an internship at Port Everglades, Broward County’s seaport. Halmos College biology major Luz Salina and marine biology major Sabrina Fischer worked on several exciting projects, including potential sea level rise analysis, the potential for ship ballast water discharges to be a vector for dispersing Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (in collaboration with EPA); the potential for ship ballast water discharges to have been a vector to dispersing invasive species such as lionfish, Johnson’s seagrass, and red tide; and the potential effects of high mast exterior lighting and gantry cranes on sea turtle nesting and hatchling activities. They are also working directly with the USACE Navigation Improvements Project Interagency Working Group on significant coral, seagrass and other environmental issues.

Broward County’s Volunteer Internship Program (VIP) is dedicated to providing students with an unsurpassed learning experience. Students interested in this internship can find it on NSU’s Handshake site under “Volunteer Intern (Seaport Engineering & Facilities Maintenance)”. The internship program is coordinated by Halmos alumnus Erik Neugaard (MS 2003).

For more information: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/broward/jobs/2518857/volunteer-intern-seaport-engineering-facilities-maintenance?department

Green Sharks Encourage All Sharks to Register to Vote, Sept. 24

Club members Emily Melhop, Alexis Good and Leeza Abramov running the voter registration table.

On Tuesday, September 24, National Voter Registration Day, the Green Sharks Student Sustainability Club has organized the Broward Supervisor of Elections for a NSU campus voter registration drive. This will be held in the UC spine from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

The “Green Sharks” student sustainability club’s purpose is to educate students, staff, and faculty of what sustainability means and to advocate for sustainability actions on campus. Halmos College faculty member J. Matt Hoch, Ph.D. is one of the club’s advisors and is assisting the students with setting up the registration process.

Club members registering students

Books and Brews at the NSU Alvin Sherman Library, Oct. 23

Join the Circle of Friends for a special PRESALE DAY EVENT at the 28th Semi-Annual Used Book Sale for Drinks, Conversation and Books!

Free admission for COF members, NSU Faculty/Staff and NSU Students (Must be 21 years and over and show proper ID). $25 for non-members includes 1 free drink.   Proceeds from this event help fund programs and resources for the NSU Alvin Sherman Library.

Become a new COF member  ($25 for faculty, staff and students) or renew your Circle of Friends membership before October 23rd and receive a FREE COF tote bag.

RSVP required:  Lib.nova.edu/BB  or 954-262-4593

Halmos Mathematics Colloquium Series Hosts Seminar on Eigenvalue Inequalities of Matrix Product

On Friday, September 20, Halmos faculty member Fuzhen Zhang, Ph.D. will present a seminar entitled, “Eigenvalue Inequalities of Matrix Product”. A joint work with Dr. Bo-Yan Xi, this talk will discuss how Given two n-by-n complex matrices, one is Hermitian and one is positive semidefinite, all of the n eigenvalues (counting multiplicities) of the product of the given matrices are necessarily real. Selecting any k of the n eigenvalues, we present lower and upper bounds for the sum of these k selected eigenvalues. Our results extend and complement the existing ones.

Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography department of mathematics hosts the mathematics colloquium series in Parker Building, Room 301. For more information about the math colloquium series, please contact mathematics faculty member Jing Chen, Ph.D. (jchen1@nova.edu) or Evan Haskell (haskell@nova.edu).

NSU University School Students Conduct Bacterial Analysis

NSU University School’s Microbiology/Forensic Science Advanced Topics (AT) class allows students to learn complex and unique skills, strategies, and techniques throughout the school year.  Upper School students taking the class have been hard at work learning the intricate process of staining bacteria by placing bacterial smears on slides to stain, observe, and examine the different types of bacteria under the microscope. This is one of the many procedures they will learn this year including collecting and examining data, ballistics, and fingerprint and hair fiber analysis. NSU University School is one of the few schools in the state of Florida that offers this unique, hands-on course to students in grades 9-12.

Pursuing Another Record-Setting Year, Sharks Tennis Releases 2019-20 Schedule

Looking forward to an exciting campaign in returning most of the roster from a phenomenal year for Sharks women’s tennis, fourth-year Nova Southeastern head coach Doug Neagle has released the full 2019-20 women’s tennis schedule, opening up the Fall again with the ITA South Regional Championship in Pensacola, Fla., Sept. 27-30. The NSU schedule features 23 regular season matches, including 10 against teams ranked in the final 2019 poll and 11 matches at home. FULL RELEASE

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