Faculty & Staff News
NSU University School’s Middle School Model United Nations team competed at the NIRAMUN Conference at NSU and took home top honors for their speaking, conflict resolution and position paper, “Combating Food Insecurity Amid Rising Natural Disasters.”
Learn more about NSU University School’s college preparatory program for students in preschool – grade 12 at www.uschool.nova.edu.
Posted 03/04/24
Students at the Anne Kolb Nature Center
Students in the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts are visiting local wilderness areas this winter and investigating the ways in which writing can help improve them.
The grant-funded special topics course, taught by Professor of Writing Claire Lutkewitte, Ph.D., is called “Writing in the Wilderness.” It tours locations in Broward County, including Anne Kolb Nature Center, Fern Forest Nature Center, Long Key Natural Area and Nature Center, and Tree Tops Park, allowing students to observe the ways writing can have an impact in these areas.
“My hope for this class is that students not only sharpen their writing skills but that they also learn writing matters to the preservation of wild places,” Lutkewitte said.
Guest speakers throughout the semester visit the class to discuss ways writing can help improve wilderness areas, and students complete writing projects, including proposals, informative texts and presentations.
For more information about Writing courses and the Writing minor offered through the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts, click here.
Posted 03/03/24
Jarvis
The Orlando Sentinel sought the legal expertise of NSU Law Professor Bob Jarvis following the latest ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that frozen embryos are children.
The legal question of when personhood is established could have far-reaching implications for abortion access and in vitro fertilization, he says.
Posted 03/03/24
More than 150 students, educators and guests attended the student-organized Fischler Academy Teachers of Tomorrow Conference on Saturday, Jan. 13.
The event was organized by a committee of Fischler Academy students and led by the chair of the committee, Sean Stanton. It was the conference’s second year, evolving from a small event in a couple of classrooms in the Carl DeSantis Building to a much larger event in the Alan B. Levan I NSU Broward Center of Innovation.
The theme of the conference was “Technology and Equity in Education.” Topics focused on the ways technology, such as artificial intelligence, can strengthen teacher practice and improve outcomes for students.
The event featured nationally recognized speakers such as EdTech consultant and expert Dr. Monica Burns, educational consultant Ken Shelton and educator and digital learning pioneer Holly Clark.
Plans for the conference began months in advance, and Fischler Academy Director Luke Williams said the event was also made possible through the support and leadership of Dr. Jennifer Berne, the faculty adviser.
“She played a huge role in really guiding these students in a lot of ways with what this event would look like and helping to put some of those pieces together,” he said.
Williams also cited the support of Director of Special Projects Jessica Rodriguez, Department Chairs Carmen Session and Marcelo Castro, and Dean Kimberly Durham.
Posted 03/03/24
ABC’s WPBF News 25 in West Palm Beach recently interviewed Dr. Vladimir Beljanski, an associate professor of medicine at NSU, on advances in medicine and new approaches being used to combat neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
Posted 03/03/24
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel highlighted the 48th concert season of the Nova Singers, NSU’s community chorus made up of 140 members — from undergraduate students to older residents.
Posted 03/03/24
Jade Lubin
Jade Lubin, an NSU University School Upper School student, recently competed in the Miami-Dade STREAM Science Fair competition and was awarded a top-seven finalist prize among more than 200 students. Lubin is a National Institutes of Health Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility grant-supported intern at the NSU College of Dental Medicine.
Lubin’s research was supervised by Dr. Shin Nakamura and Dr. Toshihisa Kawai. She also presented the results of her summer/winter research internship in our laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Nakamura and Elizabeth Leon, a first-year dental student.
Lubin discovered that a novel bacterial protein, RagA, produced by P. gingivalis can cause the differentiation of osteoclasts, in the absence of RANKL that is an authentic permissive osteoclast-differentiation. P. gingivalis is a pathogen of periodontitis (gum disease) that is associated with Alzheimer’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis.
Lubin will be competing in the upcoming Florida state science fair and International High School Science Fair.
“This achievement highlights the significance of institutions like NSU in providing the necessary support and guidance for students to flourish and empowering them to reach their full potential, thereby contributing positively to both academia and society at large,” said Dr. Mauricio Schneider, director of Belonging, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the College of Dental Medicine.
Posted 03/03/24
NSU Drs. Harold Menchel and Divya Kohli, professors in the College of Dental Medicine, were interviewed by NBC 6 reporter Trina Robinson about their work on alleviating and eliminating facial pain.
Posted 02/23/24
Are you passionate about health care and looking for exciting career opportunities at NSU Health? Look no further. We’re thrilled to announce multiple job openings in the health-care industry.
Positions Available:
Date: Saturday, March 9
Time: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Location: Carl DeSantis Building: 3050 Ray Ferrero Jr. Blvd.
Parking: Library Parking Structure: 3051 Ray Ferrero Jr. Blvd.
Why Attend:
Bring your resume and dress for success. Don’t miss this opportunity to take your health care career to the next level.
Posted 02/23/24
The Farquhar Honors College and the Alvin Sherman Library present “The Open Classroom: History and Memory.”
Join us for a discussion about the differences between history and memory and the rise of censorship in education when talking about the past.
David Kilroy, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Humanities and Politics and professor at the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, will be the speaker at the event.
The Open Classroom series features conversations with scholars from various disciplines who share their expertise on important issues and provide insightful perspectives rarely seen in the media.
Posted 02/23/24