Author: Abimbola Elizabeth Eminowa

Halmos College Students, Faculty, and Staff Participate in Beach Cleanup

This fall, Halmos College students, faculty, and staff worked out of two locations to help with the Broward County Beach Cleanup. Over the course of a Saturday morning, the two sites supported by Halmos College were at the Marine Environmental Education Center (MEEC) and the Von D. Mizell and Eula Johnson State Park. The students at these locations coordinated volunteers and collected data regarding the amount of trash picked up off their beaches.

Those two sites collected over 1000 pounds of trash, including bicycles, flip flops, balloons, and a lot of cans. To bring awareness to the need for continuing beach clean ups, the not-for-profit group Free Our Seas and Beyond created an art shark full of cans found during the clean-up. It can be seen at the MEEC.

For more information: https://www.facebook.com/SeektheMEEC/

Halmos College Department of Biological Sciences Hosts Sciences of Yawning Symposium, Nov. 1

On Friday, November 1st from 3-4 p.m., Andrew Gallup, Ph.D. presented his lecture, “The Surprising Science of Yawning” in Mailman Auditorium, Mailman-Hollywood Building.

Dr. Gallup presented on his brain-cooling hypothesis of yawning along with supporting research on humans and other animals.  Dr. Gallup is an evolutionary cognitive neuroscientist. His research spans a variety of topics, including contagious behavior and comparative neuroanatomy, brain thermoregulation and vigilance, collective behavior and social cognition, aggression and sexual conflict, the evolution of cooperation, winner and loser effects, biomarkers of Darwinian fitness, and the effects of neuromodulation on adaptive responses.

Dr. Gallup received his bachelor’s in Psychology from The State University of New York at Albany. He received his PhD in Biological Sciences from Binghamton University under the mentorship of Dr. David Sloan Wilson. He went on to complete a postdoc at Princeton University in the collective behavior lab lead by Iain Couzin (now Director of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Department of Collective Behaviour). Dr. Gallup is currently a professor of Psychology at The State University of New York Polytechnic Institute. He also serves as the director of the Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) Lab at SUNY Poly. Dr. Gallup is a Fellow of The Psychonomic Society, and affiliated faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences at Nova Southeastern University. Dr. Gallup is a rising star having already published over 75 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. His research has been of broad general interest, covered by large media outlets including National Geographic, Scientific American, and The New York Times.

Math Colloquium Series looks Algebraic Frames and Ultrafilters, Nov. 1

On Friday, November 1, at 12:05pm in Parker 338, Florida Atlantic University Instructor Papiya Bhattacharjee, Ph.D. presented her lecture on Algebraic Frames and Ultrafilters. A frame, also known as pointfree topology, is a complete lattice that satisfies a strong distributive property, known as the ‘frame law’.  Originally, the study of frames began as studying topological spaces without points, hence the name pointfree topology.

Due to this connection, different topological concepts can be generalized to frames, for example, compactness. In the first part of the talk she will explain the basic notions of frames and their connection with topology.

It turns out that we can find frame structure in other categories than topological spaces. For example, given a commutative ring R with identity, the lattice of radical ideals of R, Rad(R), is a frame.  As a result, concepts from ring structure can also be generalized to frames, for example, primes and minimal primes, annihilators, etc.  She discussed some of these concepts in the language of frame theory.

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, Ph.D. (haskell@nova.edu).

The Writing & Communication Center Hosts the 2019 Tutor Collaboration Day

The NSU Writing and Communication Center (WCC), hosted the 2019 Southeastern Writing Center Association Florida Tutor Collaboration Day (TCD) on Saturday, September 28, 2019. Each fall, TCD brings together local writing center tutors and professionals for a day of workshops, roundtable discussions, and presentations on current trends in the field.

Approximately 60 participants from south Florida visited NSU for the day-long affair that consisted of hands-on sessions focusing on improv, working with students with exceptional cases, creative writing, and queer inclusion. In addition, the WCC teamed up with Florida State University’s Reading and Writing Center to facilitate virtual workshops attended by participants at both NSU and FSU. A keynote presentation by Russell Carpenter, Ph.D. from Eastern Kentucky University was streamed between both locations. Participants from Florida International University, Florida Atlantic University, Daytona State College, and Palm Beach Atlantic joined consultants from NSU for the day-long event.

NSU undergraduate and graduate student consultants from the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) and Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences prepared workshops to engage participants with tutoring-based practices.

About the NSU Workshops and Presentations:

Title: Improv in the Writing Center: Setting the Stage for Connections in Your Session

Presenters: Angelica Zadak (Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media [CRDM], CAHSS) & Alexandra Zadak (Department of Performance & Visual Arts alumna, CAHSS) 

Title: Implementing LinkedIn in a Writing Center

Presenters: Monique Cole (CRDM, CAHSS) & Sabrina Louissaint (CRDM, CAHSS)

Title: Changing the Culture: Learning to Work with Students with Exceptional Cases

Presenters: Mikayla Ruiz (Human Development and Family Studies, CAHSS) & Joy Oni (Speech, Language, and Communication, Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences)

Title: A Workshop on Workshops

Presenters: Ricky Finch (CRDM, CAHSS) & Adam DeRoss (CRDM, CAHSS)

Title: Working with Creative Writers in the Writing Center

Presenter: ‘Aolani Robinson (CRDM, CAHSS)

Title: Language Matters: Queer Inclusion in the Writing Center

Presenters: Jordan Guido (CRDM, CAHSS) & Carlos Rodriguez Rosa (CRDM, CAHSS)

For more information about the NSU Writing and Communication Center, please visit www.nova.edu/wcc or call 954-262-8108.

Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice Hosts Early Immersion Activities

NSU’s Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice (FCE&SCJ) recently hosted a week-long series of Early Immersion Activities designed to engage students in authentic learning and promote meaningful conversations about substance abuse and sexual assault in a college environment, developmental disabilities, recreational therapy, and teaching and learning with virtual reality. The college had an amazing turnout with over 60 students participating in one of four Early Immersion Activities:

Red Flags: A Sociodrama Intervention was facilitated by Grace Telesco, Ph.D., and the NSU Sociodrama Club. Students were immersed in a scenario demonstrating the dynamics and progression of dating relationship violence and the relationship between substance abuse and sexual assault in a college environment. Students engaged in real-life scenarios and discussed relevant, effective interventions. This program, utilizing a dramatic modality, raised awareness around the topics of dating relationship violence, sexual assault, and substance abuse in a college environment. The live interaction between the audience and the characters illustrated the red flags and warning signs, risk factors, and effective resolutions and interventions that college students can employ.

Recreational Therapy was facilitated by Tim Scala, Psy.D., and Therese Pokryfk, Students were introduced to the field of recreational therapy to develop an understanding of how recreational therapy techniques are being utilized in multiple populations. Students actively participated in the process and had an opportunity to use various recreational therapy adaptive equipment.

Special Olympics Strong Minds Screening was facilitated in collaboration by Maribel Del Rio-Roberts, Psy.D., and Misha Pane of the Special Olympics. Students traveled to the Special Olympics Three Hearts ADT center in Hollywood to participate in a Strong Minds screening. At Three Hearts ADT, students were trained to teach coping skills to developmentally disabled clients by going through a 30-minute orientation and then rotating through stations that included: check-in, strong breathing, stress and you, strong messages, strong supporting, strong stretching, and check-out.

The Future of Learning: An Immersive Virtual Reality Experience was facilitated by Lucas Williams, Director of the Fischler Academy. Students were immersed into the virtual reality environment. Students were stimulated in topics about virtual reality and real-world simulations and had an opportunity to practice and learn in the virtual reality environment by rotating through three different VR stations in the Fischler Academy Active Learning.

Marine Environmental Education Center at the Carpenter House Receives 2019 Best of Hollywood Award

The Marine Environmental Education Center (MEEC) at the Carpenter House has been selected for the 2019 Best of Hollywood Award in the Education Center category by the Hollywood Award Program.

Each year, the Hollywood Award Program identifies companies that have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Hollywood area a great place to live, work and play.

Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2019 Hollywood Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Hollywood Award Program and data provided by third parties.

The MEEC was opened with the desire to educate and delight locals and tourists alike through our educational green sea turtle, Captain, and the splendor of the coastal environment in South Florida. The MEEC was fostered from a partnership between Broward County Parks and Recreation and Nova Southeastern University. The facility is located on the historic grounds of the Carpenter House at Hollywood North Beach Park in Hollywood, Florida. For more information: https://cnso.nova.edu/carpenter-house-meec/index.html

This is Why NSU Basketball is Getting Interest from NBA Coaches

Last month, over the Labor Day holiday, Nova Southeastern University men’s basketball coach Jim Crutchfield found himself in Boston as a guest speaker invited by Celtics coach Brad Stevens.

Earlier this year, Crutchfield got a spring-time call from another NBA coach, the Heat’s Erik Spoelstra, who came to the NSU campus to talk hoops. Yes, it’s been quite a summer for the NSU Sharks.

But that’s what happens when you reach the NCAA Division II Elite Eight for the first time in program history, and you do it in just the second year under Crutchfield.

NSU, which finished 6-20 the season before Crutchfield arrived, went 29-4 in 2018-2019, and that attracted NBA attention.

“Those [NBA] guys will talk to anyone they think they can learn from,” said Dave Halberstam, who was the Heat radio voice for six years and also called about 20 NSU games last season. “That ‘Spo’ would visit [Crutchfield] speaks volumes. I’m sure ‘Spo’ was seeking to talk basketball with a coach whose kids play hard-nosed defense.”

Crutchfield said he didn’t know Stevens before he was offered the invitation to Boston. Crutchfield also didn’t know Celtics assistant Jay Larranaga, son of Miami Hurricanes coach Jim Larranaga.

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Veterans Week, Starts Nov. 16

The Veterans Resource Center presents Veterans Week, November 9 through the November 16. Each event will be a form of recognition and celebration of our Veterans who have served our country.

November 9, 2019
11:00 a.m.―Veterans Charity 5k, Tarpon River Brewery
7:00 p.m. ―NSU Veterans Appreciation Homecoming Basketball Game

November 10, 2019 
8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Broward County’s Out of the Darkness Suicide Awareness Walk, Fellows Way

November 11, 2019 – Veterans Day 

8:00 a.m. ―Veterans Breakfast, Faculty Club, RSVP at VRC@nova.edu
Noon―Veterans Appreciation Lunch, Flight Deck

November 12, 2019
Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Student United for Returning Veterans Letter Writing and Care Package Collection, Don Taft University Center, Spine 

November 13, 2019
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Top Gun Volleyball Tournament and Cookout, Sand Volleyball Courts, FFV Pavilion

November 14, 2019  
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. ―Speaker Series: Women Veteran Alliance of Broward County, Rosenthal Student Center, Room 218

5:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. ―Mock Interview/Networking Event, Carl DeSantis Building, RSVP at VRC@nova.edu

November 16, 2019
S.O.S. and The Mission Continues Service Trip

For more information, contact vrc@nova.edu or call (954) 262-FLAG.

Trunk or Treat, Oct. 31

Bring your friends and your children to Trunk or Treat for a night of safe Halloween Fun!

NSU Community Members will decorate their cars or a table and pass out candy to members of their community.

Event is FREE to the Public.

Parking will be located at the Mailman Hollywood Building on NSU’s Ft. Lauderdale/Davie Campus.

October 31, 2019
5:00- 7:00 p.m.
Alvin Sherman Library, North Circle (By the Parking Garage)

Sponsored by the Office of Student Leadership and Civic Engagement (SLCE).

Halmos Student Presents at ACS Meeting in Savannah, GA

In October 2019, Halmos biology major Minhal Khoja was invited to present at the Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, in Savannah, Georgia. The talk was entitled “CUREs Beyond the Classroom: a student’s perspective.” CURE stands for Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences. Ms. Khoja’s talk was part of the meeting’s CURE Chemistry Research in the Lab session which was organized by her supervisor and Halmos faculty member Arthur Sikora, Ph.D.

The research project was funded by Dr. Sikora’s PFRDG grant and Ms. Khoja’s travel was supported by the SGA and a scholarship from the Halmos College Department of Biological Sciences.

The American Chemical Society (ACS) is the world’s largest scientific society and one of the world’s leading sources of authoritative scientific information. A nonprofit organization, chartered by Congress, ACS is at the forefront of the evolving worldwide chemical enterprise and the premier professional home for chemists, chemical engineers and related professions around the globe.

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