Author: Abimbola Elizabeth Eminowa

Gilda’s Club Hosting Screening of Movie on Breast Cancer, Nov. 23

Gilda’s Club South Florida will host a free screening on Nov. 23 of Ginger, a movie about a young woman’s experiences with breast cancer.

The movie is inspired by co-director Melissa Boratyn’s life and her diagnosis of breast cancer at age 23. The screening is open to young women and family members who have been impacted by breast cancer. It will be followed by a question and answer session with Boratyn and her co-director and husband, Jimmy Boratyn.

“People have different experiences with cancer depending on their age,” said Associate Professor Jessica Valenzuela, Ph.D., of the College of Psychology’s Department of Clinical and School Psychology. “It’s not as common for young people to have that diagnosis, so it can be isolating.”

Valenzuela has partnered for several years with the South Florida chapter of the nonprofit organization named for comedian and actress Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer in 1989. The South Florida chapter offers multiple free programs and support groups for people with cancer and their families. Some of the services include yoga, social activities, and support groups for children who have cancer or whose parents have cancer.

Valenzuela said clinical psychology students have worked with clients at Gilda’s Club, and several have been hired by the organization.

The event runs from 11:30 AM to 3:30 PM Nov. 23 at Savor Cinema Fort Lauderdale, located at 503 SE 6th St, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301. To RSVP, visit www.bit.ly/GingerMovie.

NSU Law National Criminal Procedure Moot Court Tournament Champions

NSU Law students Scott Simmons (JD 2020) and Wesley Wallace (JD 2020) earned the National Championship trophy in the National Criminal Procedure Moot Court Tournament, hosted by the University of San Diego Law School. The team traveled to San Diego to compete against 40 other law schools from around the country. In addition to winning the entire competition, the team had the second best petitioner brief score.

Coaches Professor Mark Dobson, Professor Megan Chaney, and Moot Court Advisor Professor Heather Baxter helped prepare Scott and Wesley for the competition. The team extends their appreciation to all the faculty, students, and members of the local legal community who assisted them in their practice rounds.

Pankaj Maskara wins International Teaching Award

Pankaj Maskara, Ph.D.

Pankaj Maskara, Ph.D., CFA was awarded the “Innovation in teaching” award by Financial Management Association International (FMA), leading association of finance professionals and educators around the world, at their annual meeting in New Orleans on Nov 25, 2019. Prof. Maskara’s innovative method of incorporating human literacy in finance education enhances students’ employability, promotes entrepreneurship, and prepares his students for the age of artificial intelligence. It motivates students of finance to leverage their creativity and people skills in addition to their math and technical knowledge. Prof. Maskara says “developing entrepreneurial mindset among our students is the most effective, probably the only, way to prepare our students for the challenges that lie ahead for them.”

FMA awards three professors per year for teaching innovations that are broadly transferable in terms of teacher skills / connections and have measurable impact on students, institutions of higher education, and the finance profession. Professor Maskara’s method of teaching has helped his students get jobs, internships, mentorship, promotions, consulting projects, and business opportunities while performing tasks assigned as a part of his class. He prepares his students to deal with uncertainty, manage expectations, identify inefficiencies as business opportunities, make decisions in the environment of incomplete and incorrect information, and to connect with others. His students find his methods very unorthodox and challenging but highly enriching.

A student’s comment neatly sums up Prof. Maskara’s effectiveness as a teacher.

“I feel that you should know that you were the most influential professor that I have had throughout my college experience. So many students share my opinion, but while we are still students they cannot be taken seriously since they could be seen as flattery. I hold you, as several others do also, as my highest role model and hope one day you will be able to look back and be proud I was your student. It is my opinion that your influence on me was so strong that any future success of mine was directly due to you.”

Know more about Prof. Maskara’s teaching innovation and his philosophy at

http://www.fmaconferences.org/NewOrleans/Papers/FMA%20award.pdf

Day in the Life of a Nurse 2019

On Friday, October 4, 2019, students and faculty from the Ron and Kathy Assaf College of Nursing, participated in the Day in the Life of a Nurse. The Nursing Consortium of South Florida, a coalition of hospitals, nursing schools, and health care staffing organizations, organizes this annual event to promote partnerships with South Florida public school districts and many private high schools and middle schools. The Fort Lauderdale Entry-Level Nursing Program welcomed 26 students and 3 teachers from Falcon Cove Middle School, Weston, FL to our nursing lab facilities located at the Health Professions Division Annex. The middle school students had the opportunity to learn about the nursing profession by working with entry-level nursing students and faculty. The day began with entry-level BSN nursing students and faculty sharing their individual stories that led them to a nursing career as well as highlighting their experiences at Nova Southeastern University and concluded with a meeting with Dean Marcella Rutherford, sharing her perspectives on the nursing profession as well as her personal journey as a nurse. Various hands-on activities were provided for the middle school students such as taking vital signs, handwashing, and working with high-fidelity simulators. This is the seventh year Fort Lauderdale campus has participated in the Day in the Life of a Nurse. Thank you to the third and fourth semester BSN students who shared their NSU experiences as well as participating in the hands-on activities. This program was facilitated by Assaf College of Nursing professors: Lisa Soontupe, Ed.D., RN, CNE; Caroline Smikle, Ph.D., RN; Sarah Koplow, Ph.D., APRN, AGPCNP-BC; Iris Berryhill, DNP, MSN, RN and clinical faculty, Susan Kiernan, MSN, RN; Vivia Haye, MSN, RN, and Ann Edwards, MSN, RN.

Fischler Faculty Members Present at Broward County Public Schools’ EASE Conference

Judy Coughlin, Ph.D and Dana Fredebaugh, Ph.D. Associate Professors at NSU’s Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice, led a discussion of what “collaboration” means and shared evidence-based strategies for successful collaboration (e.g., necessary communication skills, shared responsibility, and shared problem-solving) at the second annual Broward County Public Schools Educating All Students with Excellence (EASE) conference. The title of their presentation was Collaboration: A Key Component for Successful Inclusion.

EASE is an innovative and engaging day of professional development focused on inclusion. The conference brings parents, school administrators, general and special education teachers, and service providers together for a day filled with informative, educational and awareness-building sessions on a broad range of special education topics that promote inclusive practices for students with disabilities.

Free Workshop Focuses on Mindfulness for First Responders, Dec. 14

NSU will host the free workshop “Mindfulness-Based Self-Care for First Responders and the Healing and Helping Professions” on Dec. 14.

The workshop, which includes lunch, will take place from 9:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Carl DeSantis Building at the Fort Lauderdale-Davie Campus. The workshop is co-sponsored by the College of Psychology and the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice.

“The workshop will help leaders to understand more about the implementation of mindfulness and how the organization can benefit from it,” said one of the workshop’s facilitators, Associate Professor James Pann, Ph.D., of the College of Education.

The workshop will highlight the need for first responders and people in the helping professions to practice self-care and prevent burnout. Facilitators will discuss practices that attendees can incorporate into their daily lives. Topics include:

● “The Science of Mindfulness for Self-Care”

● “Mindfulness for Self-Care: An Everyday Practice for the Helping and Healing Professions”

● “Tactical Mindfulness for First Responders”

To register for the event, visit www.bit.ly/event19mm.

2019 Shark Survival Weeks, Dec. 2- 6

Join NSU’s Alvin Sherman Library for its Shark Survival Week and refuel your finals week! Stop by between Dec. 2 – 6 for specials featuring:

• FREE study snacks and coffee

• Extra study rooms

• Roving librarians to help with your research questions

• And much more!

The Alvin Sherman Library will also have extended hours from Saturday, November 30 to Thursday, December 4.

Extended Hours: 7:00 AM – Midnight

Annual Stanley and Pearl Goodman Lecture on Latin American Art, Nov. 21

Teresa Arcq, a noted art historian and curator of the work of women Surrealists and Mexican modernism, will deliver NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale’s Annual Stanley and Pearl Goodman Lecture on Latin American Art on Thursday, November 21 at 6 PM. Her talk, titled Leonora Carrington in Mexico: The Mirror of the Marvelous, will examine the influence of Mexico on the work of the legendary Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (1917 – 2011), an enigmatic figure whose paintings feature evocative dreamlike imagery and symbolism.

The lecture will be held in NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale’s Horvitz Auditorium. (One East Las Olas Blvd.) Admission is $10 for non-members and free for Museum members. For tickets, visit nsuartmuseum.org or call 954-262-0221.

The lecture is a corollary event to the exhibition  I Paint My Reality: Surrealism in Latin America, which is on view from November 17, 2019 through June 30, 2020.

Teresa Arcq was Chief Curator of the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico and Director of an International Art Investment Fund. As an independent curator, she has created and produced exhibitions in Mexico and abroad, such as In Wonderland: The Adventures of Women Surrealists in Mexico and the United States, an international project presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), The National Museum of Fine Arts in Quebec and The Modern Art Museum in Mexico. She is a frequent lecturer at museums, institutions and universities worldwide.

The November 21 lecture is presented in association with the Jewish Federation of Broward.

For additional information, visit nsuartmuseum.org or call 954-525-5500.

Follow the Museum @nsuartmuseum.org

Exhibitions and programs at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale are made possible in part by a challenge grant from the David and Francie Horvitz Family Foundation. Funding is also provided by the City of Fort Lauderdale, AutoNation, Community Foundation of Broward, Funding Arts Broward, Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council and Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau, the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale is accredited by the American Association of Museums.

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Graduate Information Sessions: Education and Criminal Justice, Dec. 3

You pour your heart and soul into the work you do; now harness that drive to make an even bigger impact. Attend to learn about Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Abraham S. Fischler College of Education & School of Criminal Justice graduate degree programs offered at the Tampa Bay Regional Campus and online and how they can help you hone your academic or corporate career expertise with the curriculum flexibility, support, and personalized coaching that makes NSU unique. Inquire how your organization can help you get a 20% tuition scholarship.

Choose a session: Thursday, November 21 or Tuesday, December 3 at 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Degrees include:

· Master of Science in Criminal Justice

· Master of Science in Developmental Disabilities

· Master of Science in Education

· Master of Science in Educational Leadership

· Educational Specialist in Educational Leadership

· Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership

· and more!

RSVP at nova.edu/tampabay/events.

Sharks Tabbed No.8 in Initial South Region Rankings

In search of its fifth consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament, the Nova Southeastern women’s soccer team still has some work to do after landing at No. 8 in the first release of the official NCAA South Region rankings. The committee only sends the Top-6 teams to the postseason, but lucky for the Sharks – Sunshine State Conference Tournament play aside – plenty of opportunities await with Embry-Riddle and Rollins still on the schedule down the stretch of the regular season. FULL RELEASE

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