Faculty & Staff News
The Sunshine State Conference announced its volleyball postseason accolades on Tuesday and a pair of Sharks were among those honored as Ally Ford was named to the All-SSC Second Team and Newcomer Team while Alex Boone earned a spot on the All-SSC Newcomer Team, as well. FULL RELEASE
After nine seasons at the helm, Nova Southeastern baseball head coach Greg Brown will resign his post leading the Sharks program later this year to pursue a hitting coordinator role in the Tampa Bay Rays Major League Baseball organization. FULL RELEASE
Sarena Smith, current student in the M.S. in Leadership program at NSU’s Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice, recently authored the book, Keep Believing. This nonfiction guide aims to aid young girls and women into believing in themselves and in their relationship with God. Sarena works under her family’s ministry, One to One Family Christian Counseling Inc., which was founded by her grandparents. She serves as a youth and young adult counselor.
Sarena’s book, Keep Believing, was released last year and is available for purchase at all major book retailers.
Kevin Dvorak, Ph.D., executive director of the NSU Writing and Communication Center (WCC) and professor in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) Department of Writing and Communication (DWC), and three NSU graduate students published chapters in the book, Studio-Based Approaches for Multimodal Projects: Models to Promote Engaged Student Learning, edited by Russell Carpenter, Ph.D., and published by Rowman & Littlefield. Dr. Dvorak’s chapter, “Reflecting on Applications of Studio-Based Models,” acts as an afterword to the collection, connecting chapters in Studio-Based Approaches to past studio-based literature and offering other writing and communication centers strategies for successfully and seamlessly implementing studio pedagogy (WSP) into their own practices.
The students’ chapter, “Student Engagement in Studio-Based Models,” links WSP with peer-to-peer engagement and uses select events hosted by NSU’s WCC as examples of “studio-based learning” that promote student engagement and facilitate student learning across a broad scope of disciplines. The three students, current and former graduate assistants at the NSU WCC, are:
Studio Based Approaches is available at this link: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498586474/Studio-Based-Approaches-for-Multimodal-Projects-Models-to-Promote-Engaged-Student-Learning
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. The flyer for this month’s online webinar titled “When IT Hits the Fan: Everyone’s Role in Crisis Communications” by Education Resources Manager Jeff Stanger.
Date: December 18, 2019
Time: 2 p.m.
Registration Link: https://www.sanfordinstituteofphilanthropy.org/when-it-hits-the-fan-everyones-role-in-crisis-communications/
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For more information about the Sanford Institute of Philanthropy, visit https://www.sanfordinstituteofphilanthropy.org/about/
This November, Halmos biological sciences faculty member Andrew Ozga, Ph.D. was lead author in a paper entitled, “Oral microbiome diversity in chimpanzees from Gombe National Park”. This research is the first to examine the bacteria within the wild chimpanzee oral cavity.
Historic calcified dental plaque (dental calculus) can provide a unique perspective into the health status of past human populations but currently no studies have focused on the oral microbial ecosystem of other primates, including our closest relatives, within the hominids. Advances in next generation sequencing and bioinformatic analyses have allowed researchers to study the oral microbiota of modern as well as historic and prehistoric populations through the investigation of dental calculus. Dental calculus is commonly found in living populations without adequate dental care as well as archaeological skeletal assemblages and has been estimated to contain 200 million cells per milligram. This study looks at dental calculus recovered from chimpanzee skeletal remains buried in Gombe National Park in Tanzania from the 1960’s to the 2000’s and includes several chimpanzees that Jane Goodall herself studied.
This article discussed the significant differences in oral microbial phyla between chimpanzees and anatomically modern humans. The results showcase core differences between host species and stress the importance of continued sequencing of nonhuman primate microbiomes in order to fully understand the complexity of their oral ecologies.
For more information: https://twitter.com/NSUHalmos/status/1199070486627520512
Link to the article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-53802-1
For the first time this season and second of her Sharks career, junior guard Claire McMahon has garnered Sunshine State Conference Defensive Player of the Week honors, following strong performances in last weeks Cesar Odio Thanksgiving Classic hosted by Barry in Miami Shores. FULL RELEASE
The Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine class of 2023 at the Fort Lauderdale/Davie and Tampa Bay Regional campuses brought out their mustaches as they participated in the month long Movember fundraising campaign.
Held every November, the organization that began in 2003 in Australia has become the leading charity for men’s health, with the goal of reducing the number of men dying prematurely by 25 percent by the year 2030. The Big Moustache on Campus competition aims to continue the efforts in the United States as college students participate in a fun and competitive way for the cause.
The first-year D.O. students got involved as they took to social media, where they posted photos with grown-out or fake mustaches, followed with a caption that included statistics and facts covering the main issues affecting men, such as mental health, suicide prevention, and testicular and prostate cancer. Through social media, contests, and support from the KPCOM Student Government Association, the college raised $9,224, ranking 16 out of 733 university teams and first in Florida.
Nova Southeastern University will be hosting The Qualitative Report 11th Annual Conference at Davie Campus in Fort Lauderdale, Florida from January 14 through 17, 2020. General registration for the TQR 11th Annual Conference is open.
For detailed information on registration click the below:
Registration Now Open
Official Conference Website
Pre-Conference Workshop
Conference Theme
Contemporary qualitative research is a diverse world of varied perspectives, designs, methods, products and purposes. We have descriptive, interpretive, scientific, artistic, critical, collaborative, participatory, indigenous, and provocative approaches to name just a few of the ways qualitative researchers conceptualize, conduct, and communicate their work. Qualitative research is now an international phenomena practiced by more people in more disciplines and professions than ever before.
Technological advancements also make qualitative research today a quickly evolving craft. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, recording apps and equipment, voice-recognition and translation software, computer-assisted qualitative data analysis programs, and augmented reality present today’s researchers with new and interesting ways to carry out their work faster and more efficiently and to consider emerging multi-dimensional ways to generate, collect and analyze data. Innovations in communication too present new options how we present and publish our work and receive feedback from our audiences.
What we teach and how we learn qualitative research today also reflect this wonderful diversity. It can be challenging to manage this variety in a curriculum, so today’s teachers and students are learning and instructing via emerging alternative and complementary means and media. Inside and outside the academy, formally and informally qualitative research education and training has never been so wide-ranging.
Teaching and Learning Qualitative Research Track
At the 11th Annual TQR Conference, we will also feature a Teaching and Learning Qualitative Research Track of paper presentations, panels, and workshops throughout the three-day event. We have invited folks to share their lessons learned from practicing, teaching, and writing qualitative research: How do you teach qualitative research? What exercises work well in helping your students master these skills? What learning technologies do you use? How should qualitative research degrees, certificate, curricula, and courses be organized to maximize effective learning? What innovations did you create to help you complete your first qualitative project? We want to hear these reflexive tales in your proposed papers, panels, and workshops so we all can learn lessons learned of qualitative research.
Pre-Conference Workshop
An Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis: A Three-Hour Workshop by Johnny Saldaña.
Johnny Saldaña, Professor Emeritus from Arizona State University-Tempe, facilitates a participatory workshop on “An Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis.” The purpose of the workshop is to survey how narrative data can be inductively analyzed through different methods from the canon of qualitative inquiry heuristics.
Three approaches to the analysis of interview and survey data will be demonstrated, and participants will explore each of these methods with authentic data sets. The first is coding and categorizing the story of a man with depression and anxiety. The second is thematic analysis of a teacher’s narrative about her relationship with students. And the third is the development of assertions about a woman recounting her troubled adolescence. Additional workshop topics include constructing diagrams and matrices, analytic memos, and analytic writing.
The workshop content and participatory exercises are designed to provide participants with a sampling of analytic approaches to non-numeric data. These approaches can be utilized with written and oral empirical materials for research, practice, and professional development. The workshop is targeted to graduate students and novices to qualitative research.
Please see the links at the top to visit our official website where you may register for the conference and workshop.
As always, please let us know your questions and comments by sending us your emails to tqr@nova.edu, posting to our Facebook page, or by tweeting us!
Tis the season for giving!
The NSU Tampa Bay Regional Campus held its second annual Sharksgiving food drive on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019. More than 100 students attended this SGA-sponsored event. The campus donated 340 pounds of canned goods (equating to 283 meals) to Feeding Tampa Bay.
We sincerely thank the Tampa Sharks for their strong support of the local community.
