Faculty & Staff News
On the heels of her season-opening win at the BUBBA Burger Jacksonville Classic, Nova Southeastern sophomore Hanna Ahlander has earned her first career Sunshine State Conference Player of the Week honor, announced by the league office on Monday afternoon. FULL RELEASE
The Nova Southeastern duo of Emma Heikkila and Paige Napolitano has done it again, as the pair of team captains were honored for the second consecutive week as the Sunshine State Conference Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week, announced by the league office earlier Monday. FULL RELEASE
Maintaining the steady tradition of exceptional creative communicators in the Nova Southeastern University athletic department, the Sharks again bolster their digital media efforts in athletic communications and marketing with the announcement that Logan Thrailkill has been named Coordinator of Digital Media and Graphic Design after a national search. He will begin his work with the Sharks this month. FULL RELEASE
Occupational Therapy (O.T.D.) student won the 2019 Video Contest sponsored by the Society for the Study of Occupation USA (SSO USA). The Society is a national community of scholars who engage in the dynamic exchange of ideas to support the global community of occupational science. It provides a forum that promotes and disseminates research in occupational science to the public, and in so doing fosters the theory and research of occupation in understanding humans as occupational beings. The basic science intersects with the profession of occupational therapy as well as other disciplines that promote the nature of occupation in its relationship with health and well-being.
Taylor Dingus created her video entry to the contest when she was on her second year in the O.T.D. program after researching the questions provided by the Society to include as content of the video. The video needed to answer the questions: “What is Occupational Science? and How does Occupational Science benefit humanity?” Dingus’s award was announced, and her award-winning video was shown during the annual business meeting of the society during its annual research conference held in Scottsdale, AZ, in October 2019. Dingus will receive her award during the 2020 annual research conference scheduled in October 2020, in St. Petersburg, FL.
For more information: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s6Z-oejwYkI&feature=youtu.be
NSU Audiology invites you to the Preschool Listening Enrichment Program on October 25, 2019 and November 8, 2019 which would be taking place at Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center (Room 4009) 3100 Ray Ferrero, Jr. Blvd. Fort Lauderdale- Davie, FL 33314. http://sherman.library.nova.edu/sites/directions/
In this family-focused group, you will learn how to:
Take-home resources will be provided; For more information: Call NSU Audiology Clinic (954) 262-7750. Registration link: https://forms.gle/ddus85FnGQLM3ovt6
This September, the Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography inducted their new cohort of Clinical Exploration Program (CEP) students. CEP offers students the opportunity to shadow medical professionals on the job in many of NSU’s medical and health clinics. Program participants gain a broad perspective that shows how various medical fields work together and a practical, up-close review of several medical career options.
Led by CEP Program Director and associate professor Deanne Roopnarine, D.P.M., Department of Biological Sciences, Chair Emily Schmitt Lavin, Ph.D., and associate professor Mark Jaffe, D.P.M., students were presented their blue coats of membership. Robert Oller, D.O., Chief Medical Advisor for the Division of Clinical Operations at KPCOM, gave an inspirational talk about the symbolism of the white coat, and the first step into the medical professions after Halmos College dean Richard Dodge, Ph.D. welcomed the students. Also present was Farquhar Honors College Dean Don Rosenblum, Ph.D.
Founded in 2006, CEP is free to join and voluntary.
Nova Southeastern University recently partnered with The Sanford Institute of Philanthropy (SIP) to help nonprofits in South Florida significantly increase their fundraising capabilities and impact through a proven, contemporary curriculum curated by SIP.
This curriculum includes a monthly 1-hour webinar series focused on a variety of topics related to nonprofit administration, fundraising, and development. Best of all, participants are invited to attend these CFRE-credit-bearing webinars at no cost!
Attached is a flyer for this month’s online webinar titled “The Magical Force of Major Gift Donors” as well as a 2019 Webinar Schedule outlining future webinar dates and topics.
Click here to sign-up and enter to win a brand new laptop! – (Details Below)
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For more information about the Sanford Institute of Philanthropy, visit https://www.sanfordinstituteofphilanthropy.org/about/
I invite you all to ask any questions you may have related to the Sanford Institute of Philanthropy and I encourage each of you to forward this email or my contact to anyone who may be interested in attending SIP’s free monthly webinar series.
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This summer, Halmos faculty members Louis Nemzer, Ph.D. and Robert Smith, Ph.D. with Halmos undergraduate and graduate students published a journal article entitled, “The public and private benefit of an impure public good determines the sensitivity of bacteria to population collapse in a snowdrift game.”
Published in Environmental Microbiology, the paper identifies the conditions that facilitate the survival of cooperative microbial populations and has implications in understanding the stability of both beneficial (soils, sediments, gut microbiome) and detrimental (infectious) microbial communities.
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“One goal of this research is to better understand the conditions that are most likely to lead to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria” said Dr. Nemzer. “This work helps shed light on when mixed populations of resistant and normal bacteria are most sensitive to treatment with antibiotic medications.”
The Halmos students, who are also co-authors, are from both the undergraduate and graduate programs. The biology undergraduate student authors are Aimee Doiron, Rodrigo Muzquiz, Marla C. Fortoul,
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Meghan Haas, Tom Abraham, and Khadija Chowdhury. The biology graduate student authors are Rebecca Quinn and Ivana Barraza.
For more information: doi:10.1111/1462‐2920.14796
The Department of Literature and Modern Languages in NSU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) partnered with NSU’s Book Club, Wyrd, to host the semester’s first story booth. At Story Booth, participants share their experiences and thoughts on all things literature. The theme this time: the good, the bad, and the ugly of not only book-to-film adaptions but also elusive film-to-book adaptions!
We all have much to learn from each other during these short, conversational interviews. Join us at our next Story Booth on November 5, 2019, from 11:00am-1:00pm outside the Alvin Sherman Library.
Corals are in crisis. Students of all ages need to be educated about stony corals impact in ocean ecology. On June 30, 2011, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) arrived at the Oceanographic Center (OC) in two 18-wheel trucks and donated 29 pallets of seized Pacific coral. Richard Dodge, Ph.D., OC dean, welcomed the donation. “The stony coral skeleton specimens will be useful for research, education, outreach, and display to provide information for understanding about economically important and biologically and ecologically valuable corals and coral reefs,” said Dodge.
Fast forward to 2019 and these dried specimens of scleractinian (“stony”) corals from the Solomon Islands confiscated by U.S. Customs and donated to Nova Southeastern University are being made available for research and education purposes only, on long-term loan. As of September 2019, 84 coral colonies have been loaned out to schools and educational institutions from the Tri-County area.
If interested in obtaining a loan for education or research, please contact Melissa Dore, Ed.D. at missy@nova.edu to see if you qualify.