Author: Abimbola Elizabeth Eminowa

NSU Research Spotlight: Halmos College Galapagos Hammerhead Shark Research Featured in National Geographic

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This October, the iconic magazine National Geographic published an article on Galapagos scalloped hammerhead sharks. These globally endangered sharks, with their wide-eyed appearance are some of the most iconic species found around these small Ecuadoran islands. One of the many questions about this species is where do they go to give birth? Halmos College professor and director of the NSU Save Our Seas Shark Research Center Mahmood Shivji, Ph.D. worked with the National Geographic explorer team to track these sharks.

“That tracking data shows at least three of the sharks leaving for the mainland,” says Shivji. The researchers say they knew the sharks are migrating to the mainland, but  additional analysis  is needed  to determine if they’re doing so specifically to give birth.

“That’s where the DNA comes in”, says Shivji. For next steps, the team will conduct  maternity tests between adult female sharks in the Galapagos and hammerhead pups found in nurseries around the Galapagos and coastal mainland regions. Sharks help keep marine prey species in check, thus creating a more balanced ecosystem. Studies often cited by conservation groups also show how much they can benefit coastal economies. From activities like tourism and diving, a shark in Palau may be worth more than $1 million throughout its lifetime; sharks in the Bahamas generated $114 million in 2014; and sharks generated $221 million for Florida’s economy in 2016.

For more information: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/10/new-find-could-save-galapagos-hammerhead-sharks/

NSU University School Upper School Students Mentor Lower School Students

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NSU University School Upper School students have many opportunities to mentor our younger students. Members of the Science National Honor Society and the World In Distress (WIND) Club recently visited 5th grade students in our Lower School to conduct an educational program about Florida’s native plants. Following the informative presentations about the importance of our native plants, the 5th grade students had the opportunity to plant a variety of native species of their own to keep. Once their plants sprout, the students were encouraged to then plant the seedlings directly into the ground and watch them grow!

NSU University School Students Exercise Their Minds and Bodies

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NSU University School students are always exercising their minds and their bodies. Students in grades 2-5 have been working hard and enjoying daily physical activities by participating in FitnessGram, a non-competitive health-related fitness assessment founded by The Cooper Institute. FitnessGram works to help schools evaluate and evolve their physical education programming into an education experience that supports the whole child. It is always great to see our students stay in shape and learn healthy habits at school by enjoying recess, sports, and quality physical education. We are proud of our little Sharks!

In Search of Leonardo’s Last Supper at the Alvin Sherman Library

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Join us for a  talk by Dr. Jean- Pierre Isbouts  on In Search of Leonardo’s Last Supper: Could Da Vinci and his workshop have painted a second version?” National Geographic historian Jean-Pierre Isbouts embarks on a thrilling quest across Europe in search of a missing masterpiece. The program will include a presentation of the film  Search for the Last Supper (produced by Pantheon Studios, Inc. of Santa Monica. Duration: 56 minutes. The event is  to 

In 2014, Dr. Isbouts authenticated a recently discovered canvas as Leonardo da Vinci’s first version of the Mona Lisa, predating the Louvre version by at least seven years, which led to a BBC TV special in 2015. In 2017, Dr. Isbouts discovered records in Florence and Tongerlo, Belgium that show that a full-size copy of Leonardo’s Last Supper fresco, now in the convent of Tongerlo, was actually painted by Leonardo and his workshop for the French King Louis XII. The exceptional quality of the canvas, with two figures arguably painted by Leonardo himself, reveals what the original fresco, now heavily damaged, once looked like. The discovery is described in his book Young Leonardo, published by St Martin’s Press, which inspired a film, The Search for the Last Supper, starring Alessandro Demcenko as Leonardo da Vinci. His next book on Leonardo da Vinci, The Da Vinci Legacy, is timed to coincide with the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death in May, 2019.

Dr. Isbouts is a National Geographic historian and bestselling author who gained worldwide renown with his 2006 book The Biblical World, which became an international bestseller and is now in its fourth print. This success led to a series of National Geographic books, including In the Footsteps of Jesus (2010), The Story of Christianity (2014), The Archaeology of the Bible (2016) and Secret Societies (2017). His 2016 book Ten Prayers that Changed the World won the Best Spirituality Book Award that year.

Link here: http://sherman.library.nova.edu/sites/spotlight/event/in-search-of-leonardos-last-supper/

Triumph After The Camps: Sylvia Wiener’s Journey of Survival at the Alvin Sherman Library

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The extraordinary story of Sylvia Weiner, a Canadian who survived the Holocaust and went on to be a pioneering marathoner. Learn more on Sunday, January 6, 2019 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm in the Alvin Sherman Library.

Born in Poland, Weiner was only 12 when she was separated from her parents and seven siblings in 1942. Her family was taken to Treblinka camp, never to return, while Weiner was shuttled from Majdanek to Auschwitz and then to Bergen-Belsen. She survived the Holocaust to become a pioneering marathoner, earning the first women’s master’s title in 1975 at age 44 at the Boston Marathon.

For more information, contact Nora Quinlan,  nora@nova.edu or 954-262-4637

Here’s the link : http://sherman.library.nova.edu/sites/spotlight/event/triumph-after-the-camps-sylvia-wieners-journey-of-survival/

Sign up for the 2019 NSU Scholarship Fishing Tournament

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On Saturday, January 12, the 2019 NSU Scholarship Fishing Tournament will begin with lines in at 7AM. This offshore fishing tournament supports endowed NSU Fishing Tournament Scholarship Fund.

Entries are currently being accepted and can be submitted up to and including during the Captain’s Meeting and Reception Party on Thursday evening Jan. 10, 2019 at NSU’s Ocean Campus.

The Fishing Tournament weigh-in is at 3pm on the January 12 at Pier 66 followed by the awards party and reception.

Please visit our website for more information on how to enter, be sponsor, or supporter of the tournament (http://www.nova.edu/fishingtournament). Net proceeds from Tournament donations create the endowed NSU Fishing Tournament Scholarship Fund. These scholarships attract, retain, encourage, and support high achieving and productive marine students at Halmos College who are engaged in outstanding research.

Austrian Physicians Visit Halmos College Faculty and Staff

(left to right are Backrow: Drs. Jaffe, Sereinigg, and Stiegler and Frontrow: Nada Balal, Dr. Roopnarine, and Vanessa Cruise.

(left to right are Backrow: Drs. Jaffe, Sereinigg, and Stiegler and Frontrow: Nada Balal, Dr. Roopnarine, and Vanessa Cruise.

On Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018, Drs. Philipp Stiegler Associate Professor and Michael Sereinigg, Senior medical doctor of the Medical University of Graz, Austria visited Halmos College faculty and students on the Davie/Fort Lauderdale Campus. While there, they visited with their 2018 summer intern Nada Belal, a senior biology major. They also met their 2019 summer intern Vanessa Cruise, a junior also majoring in biology.

Along with these two Halmos students, Drs. Steigler and Sereinigg met with Halmos College faculty members Mark Jaffe, DPM and Deanne Roopnarine, DPM. D.r Jaffe chairs the Summer Biology Internship Committee of which Dr. Roopnarine is also a member.

Summer 2019 will mark the 11th anniversary of the summer internship partnership between the Medical University of Graz and the Halmos College of Nova Southeastern University.

The Kapila Family Foundation Feeding Disorders Clinic at NSU’s Mailman Segal Center for Human Development to Offer Services for Free through June 2019

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The Kapila Family Foundation Feeding Disorders Clinic at Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Mailman Segal Center has received a grant in the amount of $669,282 from the State of Florida Department of Education that will fund feeding services through June 2019. The clinic is one of seven of its kind in the country and the only one of its kind in South Florida that provides comprehensive multidisciplinary treatment for children.

Senator Lauren Book and Representative Jared Moskowitz supported this award, which will cover the necessary costs for NSU’s Mailman Segal Center to provide clinical services and parent support for over 100 children in the State of Florida. feeding clinic

“We are honored and grateful to be the recipient of this funding for the Kapila Family Foundation Feeding Disorders Clinic,” said Roni Cohen Leiderman, Ph.D., Dean of NSU’s Mailman Segal Center for Human Development. “By offering these clinical services at no cost to children who reside in the State of Florida, many more children will receive our evidence-based treatment that has a remarkably high success rate.”

The Feeding Disorders Clinic works with an inter-professional team that treats children who refuse to eat an adequate volume of food or for those who eat an insufficient and limited variety of food. Without appropriate clinical treatment, many of these children may experience numerous hospital stays, medical crises and surgically implanted tube feedings to support their nutritional intakes. With the help of behavioral psychology, nutrition and speech pathology focusing on oral-motor concerns, the clinic provides comprehensive evaluation and intervention services.

“When a child has a problem with feeding, it is something that affects the whole family and often one simple solution does not exist,” stated Roseanne Lesack, Ph.D., BCBA-D, ABPP, director of the Feeding Disorders Clinic. “We have a multidisciplinary team that works with not only the child but the whole family which has resulted in a 92% success rate for patients treated here at NSU’s Mailman Segal Center for Human Development.”

Both intensive and outpatient services are available to best match each child’s specific feeding concerns. For more information, please call 954-262-CARE.

FCE Graduate Honored by the Concordia Historical Institute

robert-stevensRobert A. Stevens, Ed.D., graduate of NSU’s Abraham S. Fischler College of Education (FCE), was honored with the 2018 Award of Commendation from Concordia Historical Institute on November 8, 2018 in recognition of his excellent publication entitled: Anticipation Exceeded Realization: Saga of an Antebellum College. The Story of the Original Illinois State University.

The Institute recognizes individual service, publications, and projects that advance the study and appreciation of Lutheran archives and history.  Dr. Stevens was selected from over one hundred participants.

Dr. Stevens is a current Academic Advisor at the Fischler Academy; he earned his doctorate degree with FCE in 2015.

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