Faculty & Staff News
With the calendar set to flip to November, signaling the start of basketball season, Nova Southeastern will tip-off its 2019-20 campaign ranked as the No. 2 team in the nation following the release of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Preseason Poll on Tuesday. FULL RELEASE
In the Division II Media Poll, sponsored by D2SIDA, the NSU women’s basketball team has been pegged the team to beat in the South Region after receiving the No. 1 overall ranking regionally late Tuesday night. The Sharks were also recognized as one of the top programs in the country after the national poll featured NSU at No. 10. FULL RELEASE
Following a historic 2018-19 run in which Nova Southeastern collected the program’s first-ever Sunshine State Conference regular season title, the Sharks have been selected to repeat once again this winter, as they garnered the top spot in Wednesday’s release of the SSC Preseason Coaches’ Poll. FULL RELEASE
On Thursday, November 7, at 12:25 p.m. Dragan Radulovic, Ph.D. will present his lecture entitled, “How good are standard copulas anyway?” in Parker Building Room 338. Dr. Radulovic is a professor at Florida Atlantic University.
His lecture will raise a question: How good are standard copulas in capturing the dependency structure? To this end we will offer a series of simulated/numerical examples demonstrating that, more often than not, standard model copulas do not capture the underlying dependency structure. We believe that copula models, unlike other statistical tools, are too readily accepted by practitioners. Rigorous, goodness-of-fit tests are commonly replaced by off-hand statements like: “it works well”. To this end, the second part of the talk offers a theoretical result, an umbrella type theorem tailored for creating numerous Goodness of Fit tests for copulas.
Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography department of mathematics hosts the mathematics colloquium series in Parker Building, Room 338. For more information about the math colloquium series, please contact mathematics faculty member Jing Chen, Ph.D. (jchen1@nova.edu) or Evan Haskell, Ph.D. (haskell@nova.edu).
From October 4-6, 2019, Halmos College Professor/Assistant Dean Matthew He, Ph.D. delivered a keynote lecture at the First International Symposium on Computer Science, Digital Economy and Intelligent Systems (CSDEIS2019, in Moscow, Russia. His lecture titled “Digital Transformation of Higher Education vis Computing”.
Dr. He’s lecture covered a history and timeline of educational technology, evolution of technology, expanded interpretation of e-learning, and discussed the better match (“best-fit”) between learning technology and eight different types of learner’s intelligence, and future of educational technology. The Symposium provides a platform for academic researchers, engineers, and industry professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in the areas of computer science, digital economy and intelligent systems.
The conference was organized jointly by Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Mechanical Engineering Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Modern Education and Computer Science Press (MECS Press).
From October 1-3, 2019, Halmos College Professor/Assistant Dean Matthew He, Ph.D. presented a keynote lecture at the Third International Conference of Artificial Intelligence, Medical Engineering, Education (AIMEE2019) in Moscow, Russia. The lecture title was “Symmetry and Asymmetry in Bioinformatics: From Genetic Code to Life”.
Dr. Matthew He’s lecture traced back to the empty relation/null transformation as the origin of symmetry and asymmetry, and covered symmetrical and asymmetrical characteristics in Bioinformatics at many levels of organization ranging from genetic code, DNA replications, protein building blocks amino acids, individual cells, through organs, to entire body-shapes.
The AIMEE2019 brings together the top researchers from Asian Pacific nations, Russia, North America, Europe and around the world to exchange their research results and address open issues in Artificial Intelligence, Medical Engineering, Education. The conference was organized jointly by Mechanical Engineering Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the “International Research Association of Modern Education and Computer Science” (RAMECS, Hong Kong).
A recently established student organization in NSU’s College of Psychology will be hosting a golf tournament fundraiser on November 23, 2019.
The tournament, hosted by Humanitarian Global Outreach, will take place at Gleneagles Country Club, located at 7667 Victory Lane, in Delray Beach. Tickets are $185 per person or $690 for a group of four, with registration open until Nov. 21.
HGO’s mission is to assist underserved populations both domestically and internationally, working with nonprofit groups, educators, and community leaders to provide psychological services during humanitarian crises. The proceeds from the tournament will fund student scholarships, said Oraib Toukhly, president of HGO.
“We hope that donors find this a way to engage in providing support for these humanitarian missions,” Toukhly said.” Your support will fund scholarships for our students to provide these life-saving services to the world’s most underserved populations.”
Fundraiser organized by Humanitarian Global Outreach
For information, email eh924@mynsu.nova.edu.
Richard Deth, Ph.D., Professor, College of Pharmacy with External Funding Recognition plaque; Ronald J. Chenail, Ph.D. NSU Interim Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs;
The External Funding Recognition Reception is an annual event that provides recognition for the efforts of NSU faculty and staff who have received external grant funding in the previous fiscal year. Fiscal Year 2019 had great activity in the area of external funding, with total cumulative active awards of approximately $119 million. This event recognized the extraordinary efforts of all faculty who contributed to this accomplishment and encourages the continued pursuit of all external funding.
There were 130 NSU Principal Investigators and Co-Principal Investigators from 12 colleges and 7 units who were honored at the NSU External Funding Recognition Reception for their external funding successes in FY 2019. The event took place at the Grande Oaks Golf Club on October 16, 2019. The event was hosted by Ron Chenail, Ph.D., NSU Interim Provost and Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs, and Gary S. Margules, Sc.D., NSU Vice-President for Research and Technology Transfer.
Naushira Pandya, M.D., CMD, FACP, Project Director, Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program; Chair and Professor, Department of Geriatrics, Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine with External Funding Recognition plaque; Ronald J. Chenail, Ph.D. NSU Interim Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs;
In October 2019, Springer – International Publisher Science, Technology, Medicine released “Advances in Artificial Systems for Medicine and Education II”, co-edited by Halmos assistant dean and professor Matthew He, Ph.D.
This book gathers high-quality, peer-reviewed research papers presented at the Second International Conference on Computer Science, Engineering and Education Applications (ICCSEEA2019), held in Kiev, Ukraine on 26–27 January 2019, and jointly organized by the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” and the International Research Association of Modern Education and Computer Science. The papers discuss state-of-the-art topics and advances in computer science; neural networks; pattern recognition; engineering techniques; genetic coding systems; deep learning and its medical applications; and knowledge representation and its applications in education.
For information:https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319910079
On October 7, NSU AAUW went to the PACE Center for Girls for the first session of the E-STEAM Project. There the volunteers set up three activity stations. These included “Coding with Ozobots”, where girls learned how to write code for a small robot that responds to color patterns, “Lemon Power”, where girls learned how to make a battery out of lemons to light up a small, LED bulb, and “Art/Monoprinting”, where the girls created a design with paint on a styrofoam cup and learned how to monoprint the design onto paper.
NSU faculty volunteers for this project included Julie Torruellas Garcia, Ph.D. from Halmos College, Randi Sims, Ph.D. from the Huizenga College of Business, and Kandy Lopez-Moreno, M.F.A. from the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. NSU student volunteers included Art and Design Major Paige Allen and Biology Majors Brianna Thompson, Kyle Hansotia, and Muhammad-Altamash Jawadi.
The Nova Southeastern University branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW-NSU) has been collaborating with the Alvin Sherman Library and Broward’s PACE Center for Girls, a delinquency prevention/intervention program for young adolescent girls ages 12-18. Anyone interested in joining NSU AAUW or participating in the ESTEAM Project for Girls should contact Dr. Randi Sims at sims@nova.edu
