Author: Abimbola Elizabeth Eminowa

Second Week of Grand Openings for Razor’s Edge Shark Cage Student Businesses

Are you ready for a new swimming suit? You can wear it to the beach after classes finish for the day and take along some great recreational gear. Do you need some finishing touches to make your dorm room just right? Are your shoes looking a bit worn? Visit the new Razor’s Edge Shark Cage on the first level of Mako Hall and celebrate four more Grand Openings of student-run businesses owned and operated by Rockefeller Class of 2021 Razor’s Edge Shark Cage Scholars Program students on Wednesday, September 18.  This is an enormous accomplishment for these students, and we would like to invite you to visit and enjoy some of their great new products and services offered by the students. Cash or credit cards are accepted. All these businesses located in the Shark Cage on the ground floor of Mako Hall.

Grand Opening Events:

Captain Nova (Swim wear, t-shirts, and hoodies), Wednesday, September 18 from 12:00 – 3:00 pm

  • Location: Shark Cage, 1st floor, Mako Hall
  • Operating Hours: Monday’s and Wednesday’s, 12:00 – 3:00 pm and Tuesday’s, 1:00 – 3:00 pm
  • Looking for durable, comfortable, and fashionable swim wear? Stop by Captain Nova for quality items and help positively impact South Florida coastal conservation with your purchase.

Comfy-fi (Dorm room design services), Wednesday, September 18 from 10:30 am – 1:30 pm

  • Location: Shark Cage, 1st floor, Mako Hall
  • Operating Hours: Monday’s, Wednesday’s, and Friday’s, 10:30 am – 1:30 pm
  • Do you want to turn your dorm room from an ordinary space into an extraordinary space? Stop by Comfy-fi to take your dorm room and living space to the next level.

R3 (Recreational and Relaxing Rentals), Wednesday, September 18 from 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

  • Location: Shark Cage, 1st floor, Mako Hall
  • Operating Hours: Monday’s, Wednesday’s and Friday’s, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
  • Do you want to enjoy the South Florida sunshine with the essentials for a pleasant day at a fraction of the cost? Stop by R3 for quality recreational and relaxing beach rentals at affordable prices.

Ravi’s Royal Tea, Wednesday, September 18 from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

  • Location: Shark Cage, 1st floor, Mako Hall LOGO
  • Operating Hours: Monday’s and Wednesday’s from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm and Tuesday’s from 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
  • Ready to take a break and have a refreshing cup of hot tea or a tall glass of iced tea? Take a break from your schedule and relax for a few minutes at Ravi’s Royal Tea.

Captain Nova

Captain Nova provides high-quality apparel including hats, t-shirts, hoodies, and swim bikinis (made in America) in a variety of four colors. Captain Nova supports the movement away from using plastic straws, and the mission is to positively impact South Florida coastal conservation. Captain Nova is donating some of its profits to the Marine Environmental Education Center. Grand Opening on Wednesday, September 18 from 12:00 – 3:00 pm.

Captain Nova owned and operated by Rebecca (Becca) Flack, a junior from Sherborne, United Kingdom, majoring in Business Administration and minoring in Entrepreneurship. Becca looks forward to introducing you to her variety of comfortable, durable, and fashionable clothing. Regular hours of operation are Monday’s and Wednesday’s from 12:00 – 3:00 pm and Tuesday’s from 1:00 – 3:00 pm.

Comfy-fi

Comfy-fi is a dorm décor kiosk catered to college students living on campus. Let Comfy-fi create a customized, efficient space designed around your lifestyle. Comfy-fi is convenient, affordable, and provides world-class service and attention to detail, specializing in décor, accessories, games, technology and more! Custom orders are also available. See how Comfy-fi can enhance your living space at the Grand Opening on Wednesday, September 18 from 10:30 am – 1:30 pm.

Comfi-fi owned and operated by Krystian Dear, a junior from Montego Bay, Jamaica, majoring in Business Administration and minoring in Entrepreneurship.  Krystian invites you to explore the variety of products and services he offers to make your dorm room your home away from home, catered to your individual needs. Regular hours of operation are Monday’s, Wednesday’s and Fridays from 10:30 am – 1:30 pm.

R3 (Recreational and Relaxing Rentals)

Whether you are heading to the beach or trying to find a quiet spot on campus to study or relax, you should stop in at R3 to get essential items that you will not have to store in your room.  R3 rents beach towels, goggle and snorkel sets, coolers, body boards, and more.  Grand Opening on Wednesday, September 4 from 11:00 – 2:00 pm.

R3 owned and operated by Rachael Nelson, a junior from Rochester, New York, majoring in Computer Information Technology and minoring in Entrepreneurship.  Rachael is also a NSU volleyball player.  Rachael encourages you to take advantage of her daily or hourly pricing on all types of beach rental items so you do not need to find space to store things in your room.  Have fun in the sun, however, slather on the sunscreen.  Regular hours of operation are Monday’s, Wednesday’s and Friday’s from 11:00 am – 2:00 pm.  R3 will operate in Fall 2019-Winter 2020.

Ravi’s Royal Tea

Ravi’s Royal Tea serves organic tea and non-GMO certified hot and iced tea for those who are not coffee drinkers and coffee drinkers who also enjoy a tea break. Enjoy a sweet treat with your tea crafted from the highest quality whole tea leaves, fruits, herbs and spices.  Take a break and come to the Grand Opening on Wednesday, September 18 from

Ravi’s Royal Tea owned and operated by Ravi Patel, a junior from Jacksonville, Florida, a Dual Admit Dental student majoring in Biology and minoring in Entrepreneurship. Ravi invites you to tea at his Grand Opening on Wednesday, September 18 from 11:00 – 1:00 pm. Regular hours of operation are Monday’s and Wednesday’s from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm and Tuesday’s from 11:00 am – 3:00 pm

Additional Shark Cage Businesses

 Each Razor’s Edge Shark Cage Scholars Program student opens an on-campus, student-run business in order to fulfill their scholarships. Each business aims to engage all members of the NSU community including students, faculty, and staff.  Students went through specifically designed courses to aid them in getting their businesses started. From making Shark Pitches and Shark Funding Pitches to faculty members and entrepreneurs, students gained confidence in starting their on-campus businesses.  These students are joining six returning Shark Cage student-run businesses from last year, Mako Me Fit (protein shakes), The Lemonade Stand, Shark MGT, Shark Market, Shark Vault, and Simple Servings as well as three Shark Cage businesses that opened last week, Mako Ice, Natural Bowl, and Shark Bait Candy Shop.  Watch your messages because there are an additional five Shark Cage student-run businesses opening between September 19-20 . We invite you to ENGAGE with them and support their businesses.

 

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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