Author: Abimbola Elizabeth Eminowa

NSU Hosting 2nd Annual Optimizing Mental Wellness, May 11

The Optimizing Mental Wellness event will return for a second year at NSU on May 11, 2019, at 8:30 p.m.

Open to the public, this free event is a partnership between NSU’s Brief Therapy Institute, Psychology Services Center, and Mailman Segal Center for Human Development. Coinciding with Mental Health Awareness Month, the event will highlight the more than 30 mental health clinics at NSU that offer services to the community. Those services are priced at a sliding scale based on the client’s income.

“Mental health affects everyone in their lifetime in some way,” said event coordinator Paula Boros, M.S. “Maybe you know someone that is affected by mental health concerns, but does not know where to start. Or maybe you are starting to notice that something is different about yourself.”

Throughout the day, specialists will discuss topics related to mental health. The keynote address will be “Relationship Reboot: Dive proofing your relationships” by Anne Hearon Rambo, Ph.D., from the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences’ Department of Family Therapy. The keynote will cover methods for changing patterns to ensure successful, long lasting relationships.

By tying in with Mental Health Awareness Month, Boros said one of the event’s goals is to end the stigma around seeking out mental health treatment. Mental health stigma can also cross cultural boundaries.

“In South Florida we have a variety of culture and diversity, each having a different understanding of what mental health means to them,” Boros said. “As a result, each culture handles mental health issues differently.”

Lunch is included with an RSVP for the free event, which will take place in the Carl DeSantis Building on NSU’s Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus.

To RSVP, click here. If you wish to donate in support of NSU’s clinics, click here.

NSU University School Students Travel to China

NSU University School students, who take Chinese as a foreign language, had the opportunity to travel to China over spring break. USchool faculty accompanied the 23 Middle and Upper School students on the trip where they were all fully immersed into China’s culture and customs. Students explored China’s major cities and landmarks including the Great Wall of China. They also had the opportunity to interact with Chinese students at our sister school and they ate and cooked traditional Chinese food like dim sum. Travel opportunities like these encourage students to gain awareness of global perspectives and develop the interpersonal skills necessary to navigate new experiences with confidence, maturity, and flexibility.

Baseball Debuts at 6th in Official South Region Rankings

The Nova Southeastern Sharks baseball team is listed at sixth in the first official South Region rankings, released this week by the NCAA. Entering the final regular season weekend at 29-15, 16-11 in SSC games, the Sharks are looking to extend their postseason streak to a fifth consecutive South Regional appearance, May 16-18.

NSU is 24-15 on in-region contests this season. At present the Sharks have earned six Regional appearances in the previous season under head coach Greg Brown.

Tampa leads the initial South Region standings at 30-11, and six total Sunshine State Conference schools are represented in the poll. All four of the other slots are occupied by Gulf South Conference schools.

The Sharks close off their home slate and the regular season in one three-day Senior Weekend at the NSU Baseball Complex, hosting the Florida Southern Mocs, Friday-Sunday, April 26-28. Senior Day is scheduled for Saturday at 12:30 p.m. for 13 Sharks competing in their final regular season series at the ‘Shark Tank’.

Complete South Region Poll (April 24)

1 Tampa 30-11 24-11
2 West Florida 27-14 27-14
3 Delta St. 30-10 27-10
4 Mississippi Col. 27-12 23-9
5 Eckerd 25-14 24-14
6 Nova Southeastern 26-15 24-15
7 Embry-Riddle (FL) 25-15 21-14
8 Barry 26-14 16-14
9 Alabama Huntsville 25-17 22-17
10 Rollins 23-16 17-15

 

Halmos College Faculty Keynote Speaker the Southeastern Society of Parasitologists

On the weekend of April 11th, Halmos College biology faculty member Christopher Blanar, Ph.D. was one of the keynote speakers at the 2019 meeting of the Southeastern Society of Parasitologists (SSP). Hosted by University of Georgia’s Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, the title of Blanar’s talk was “Effect sizes, affect words, and the value of parasites as bioindicators”.

“In short I used text analysis software to study whether scientists in my field change the way they write depending on the statistical significance and effect sizes associated with their results.”, said Blanar.

The other invited speaker was Kate Sheehan, Ph.D. of Southern Arkansas University. Over 200 people attended the conference. Blanar’s talk was well received and discussed throughout the meeting.

The SSP is an affiliate of the American Society of Parasitologists and is a mix of ecologists, taxonomists, cell biologists, immunoparasitologists, veterinarians, students, and more. The annual meetings are casual, relaxed, and always interesting. Membership is open to all persons interested in the study of all things related to the fascinating world of parasites.

Halmos College Astronomy Faculty Interviewed about Black Hole Photo.

On April 10, the National Science Foundation announced the first picture of a black hole. NBC channel 6 interviewed Stefan Kautsch, Ph.D., Halmos College’s associate professor of physics and astronomy about the photo.

In the interview, Kautsch stated, “The significance of this radio image is the high-resolution observation of the area of a super-massive black hole in the center of galaxy M87.  The image visualizes the disk of hot gas and dust surrounding the black-hole surface, the so-called event horizon. It is great news for my research on galaxies to show the existence of black holes in galaxy centers.”

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration, was designed to capture images of a black hole. The image shows a bright ring formed as light bends in the intense gravity around a black hole that is 6.5 billion times more massive than the Sun. This long-sought image provides the strongest evidence to date for the existence of supermassive black holes and opens a new window onto the study of black holes, their event horizons, and gravity.

The EHT is the result of years of international collaboration, and offers scientists a new way to study the most extreme objects in the Universe predicted by Einstein’s general relativity during the centennial year of the historic experiment that first confirmed the theory.

Halmos College Marine Seminar Series Discusses Habitat Degradation on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Morgan Pratchett. Ph.D.

On Wednesday, May 1 at 6pm, the Halmos College Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences presents a seminar by Morgan Pratchett. Ph.D. of James Cook University in Townsville, Australia. Dr. Pratchett’s talk is entitled, “Causes and consequences of coral loss and habitat degradation on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef”.

The seminar will be held at the Oceanographic Campus in the GHOC 3rd floor auditorium.

Professor Morgan Pratchett is a Research Leader in Coral Reef Ecology at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, based at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia. He has published approximately 300 papers, with a major emphasis on understanding and managing coral reef ecosystems. While he was trained as a coral biologist, he is an international authority on the biology of butterflyfishes (family Chaetodontidae) and has also made major contributions towards managing outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster spp.), which continue to plague reefs throughout the Indo-west Pacific. Having recognized that the single greatest threat to coral reef ecosystems is anthropogenic climate change, his research is increasingly focused on understanding differential responses and vulnerabilities of coral reef organisms to changing environmental and habitat conditions. He was heavily involved in documenting recent effects of mass coral bleaching on coral assemblages on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and is currently leading critical research to understand the legacy of these changes for reef fishes and fisheries.

Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice Undergraduate Selected as the Student Commencement Speaker at the Afternoon Ceremony

Matthew Zahorec

Matthew Zahorec, undergraduate student at the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice (FCE&SCJ), has been selected as the student commencement speaker for the afternoon ceremony on May 10. Matthew will be graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in exceptional student education with an ESOL Endorsement.

He states, “My goal in education is to help kids become a little bit better, kinder, and wiser than they were yesterday. The additional challenge is figuring out how to maintain that same growth pattern for myself. I can’t really teach it unless I’m living it. Consistent, small steps forward have led far beyond my own expectations for life and personal assumptions of what I can do. I want to share that possibility with the kids I get to teach.”

Upon graduation, Matthew will start his role as a fifth grade teacher and health coordinator at Creation Village Preparatory School in Celebration, Florida. As a fifth grade teacher he will be responsible for the planning, teaching, facilitation, and oversight of a group of young learners. As the health coordinator, he will be collaborating with administration to oversee the planning and implementation of the PE, health, and character development programs.

In addition, Matthew is looking forward to a two week Disney vacation with his fiancé and soon to be in laws, as well as his upcoming wedding.

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