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Art + Design Majors Named ‘Students to Watch’ By Magazine

Vivian Duran

Sol Santecchia

Vivian Duran and Sol Santecchia, Art + Design majors in the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, were recently named “Students to Watch in 2021” by Graphic Design USA (GDUSA) magazine.

“It is certainly an achievement for our students to gain this national recognition,” said Miriam Ahmed, Ph.D., assistant professor of graphic design for the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts. “GDUSA is a widely recognized publication in the industry, and having our students featured in the magazine demonstrates to the field that our NSU graphic design students are on par with students from top design schools across the country. As we promote and grow the Art + Design program, accolades earned by our outstanding students are indicators of the caliber of talent recruited into our program and their successful career trajectories.”

The magazine’s April 2021 issue also added Nova Southeastern University to GDUSA magazine’s compilation of “Highest Honors: Top Graphic Design Schools.”

“I am so proud of our outstanding Art + Design students and faculty,” said Shanti Bruce, Ph.D., professor and chair for the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts. “They have worked hard, and this is a well-deserved honor.”

Check out the magazine feature!

Learn more about the Graphic Design concentration offered through the B.A. in Art + Design program.

Faculty Member Earns Top Healthcare Management Credential

François Sainfort, Ph.D., FACHE

François Sainfort, Ph.D., FACHE, professor and chair, H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship and professor in the Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine, recently became a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, the nation’s leading professional society for healthcare leaders.

“The healthcare management field plays a vital role in providing high-quality care to the people in our communities, which makes having a standard of excellence promoted by a professional organization critically important,” says Deborah J. Bowen, FACHE, CAE, president and CEO of ACHE. “By becoming an ACHE Fellow and earning the distinction of board certification from ACHE, healthcare leaders demonstrate a commitment to excellence in serving their patients and the community.”

Fellow status represents achievement of the highest standard of professional development in healthcare management. To obtain Fellow status, candidates must fulfill multiple requirements, including long-standing experience in healthcare management at the highest level, demonstrating impact on the field of healthcare management, meeting stringent academic and experiential criteria, maintaining continuing education hours, engaging in professional/community service, and passing a comprehensive examination. Fellows are committed to ongoing professional development, continuing community service, sustained impact on healthcare management, and undergo recertification every three years.

Sainfort is privileged to bear the FACHE® credential, which signifies board certification in healthcare management as an ACHE Fellow.

“Being awarded the FACHE® credential is an honor and, in part, a reflection of the quality of our graduate programs in HCBE and NSU MD. One of my goals is to draw a path for our graduates to pursue the fellowship in their careers as well,” he said.

Former Graduate Assistant Coordinators Publish Article

‘Aolani Robinson, left, Danielle Pierce, above

Danielle Pierce and ‘Aolani Robinson, former graduate assistant coordinators at the NSU Writing and Communication Center (WCC), and HCAS alumna from the Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media MA program published “Integrating and Evaluating Twine as a Mode for Training Course-Embedded Consultants in the Writing Center” in the Peer Review vol.5, no.1, Winter 2021.

Pierce and Robinson’s article explores how Twine, an open-source platform for interactive fiction games, was used to train NSU writing center staff participating in a course-embedded tutoring program.

According to Pierce, “As the Graduate Assistant Coordinator for NSU’s COMP Fellows program, I saw a need for scenario-specific training when preparing our Fellows to work in the classroom. Oftentimes, the COMP Fellows would approach me with a question or concern after attending class. I want the Fellows to be able to address any issues that arise in the moment, and to continue developing relationships with the faculty and students they work with. When ‘Aolani approached me with incorporating Twine into our writing center training initiatives, I knew this would be a creative opportunity to provide our Fellows with training focused on navigating classroom-based scenarios.”

Their article addresses the need for additional training materials through a supplemental scenario-based Twine training game for writing center consultants embedded in first-year composition. Through qualitative responses, they found that consultants reacted positively to the scenarios within the Twine training. The positive reception demonstrated that Twine can be implemented as a creative solution for simulating situations that may occur in classroom-based consultations.

To read Pierce and Robinson’s article, visit http://thepeerreview-iwca.org/issues/issue-5-1/

To learn more about the NSU Writing and Communication Center, please visit https://www.nova.edu/wcc/.

To learn more about the Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Master’s Program, visit https://hcas.nova.edu/academics/graduate/masters/composition-rhetoric-digital-media.html        

Faculty Member Receives NSEE Distinguished Service Award

Martha M. Snyder, Ph.D., PMP, SPHR

Martha M. Snyder, Ph.D., PMP, SPHR, received the Michael Steuerman Distinguished Service Award on Tuesday, September 28, at the awards luncheon of the 50th National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE) Annual Conference at the Renaissance Hotel at SeaWorld, Orlando, Florida.

This award recognizes an NSEE member who exemplifies the values and mission of the society and who has made critical contributions to NSEE’s success. Snyder has served on the NSEE conference planning committee since 2017 and chaired the 2020 conference where she managed to shift a fully on-site experience to a virtual event during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the summer of 2020, Snyder facilitated online webinars to support professional development efforts and community-building.

In preparation for NSEE’s 50th conference, Snyder organized conference activities that brought NSEE past presidents and leaders together to share their experiences and visions for the future. She also serves on the faculty of NSEE’s Experiential Education Academy (EEA) where she facilitates workshops on assessment, reflection, teaching and learning experientially, and online learning and experiential education. In 2021, Snyder joined the NSEE Board of Directors. She will focus her efforts on professional development for the Society and its membership.

Snyder is the director of faculty professional development in NSU’s Learning and Educational Center and a professor in the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice. She also teaches undergraduate and master’s courses in the Farquhar Honors College and Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine respectively.

The National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE) is a nonprofit membership organization composed of educators, businesses, and community leaders founded in 1971 that strives to cultivate educators who effectively use experiential education as an integral part of personal, professional, civic, and global learning.

Ph.D. Adviser Receives Prestigious Economics Award

David Card, the Ph.D. adviser of NSU Professor of Decision Sciences Florence Neymotin, was recently announced as a winner of the 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – commonly called the Nobel Prize in economics. Card pioneered a “credibility revolution” in economics by using empirical data to rigorously test theoretical predictions. He used data from natural experiments and sophisticated statistical tools to better understand the impact of minimum wage policies, immigration, and education. For example, in the early 1990s, he showed that raising the minimum wage in New Jersey did not lead to an increase in unemployment, using nearby western Pennsylvania as the control group. In contrast with the predominantly theoretical analyses of the past, the majority of economics research published today is based on observational or econometric data due to his successes.

Florence Neymotin

Neymotin maintains a close relationship with Card. As a graduate student, she was acknowledged for her research work on two of his foundational papers. In “Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?” they discovered that, contrary to what some had feared, the presence of immigrants did not adversely impact the labor market opportunities for natives. Neymotin was also acknowledged on his paper published in The American Economic Review, a top-5 journal in economics titled “The Impact of Nearly Universal Insurance Coverage on Healthcare Utilization: Evidence from Medicare.”

Neymotin, currently in the H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship, said about her role in the process: “I could not be happier to see this important work recognized and to have played a part in making economics a more rigorous science.”

She says she hopes to continue making progress in her own research using the tools of empirical economics she learned from Card. In particular, Neymotin uses data-driven approaches to better understand entrepreneur and employment decisions, as well as changes in the health care system.

Club Hosts President of American Association of Cosmetic Dentistry

The dental student Cosmetics Club hosted David Chan, D.D.S., 2021 President of the American Association of Cosmetic Dentistry (AACD) who presented a lecture and two-hour, hands-on course to more than 90 dental students on Friday, September 10, 2021.

Mohamed ‘Moe’ Badwan, D-3, Cosmetics Club vice president, lauded Chan’s hands-on simulation lab presentation as “an opportunity to connect and build on what we’ve been working very hard for the last year and a half with this organization, which is to be able to bridge the gap in esthetic education in the field of cosmetic dentistry.”

Franziska Klostermyer, D-4, Cosmetics Club president, noted the club has been trying to create more connections between the AACD and Nova Southeastern University’s College of Dental Medicine. Chan agreed to visit NSU after she reached out to him on Instagram.

Liliana Mosquera, D.D.S., the Cosmetics Club faculty adviser, and Sharon Siegel, D.D.S., M.S., M.B.A., professor and chair, Department of Prosthodontics at NSU-CDM, agreed that Chan’s presentation speaks to the College of Dental Medicine’s excellent reputation. The Cosmetics Club has more than 200 members and is one of the most popular student organizations in the College of Dental Medicine with excellent outside lecturers every month.

U School Students Receive Osteopathic Medicine Fellowship

NSU University School congratulates the outstanding Upper School students who have been selected to participate in the 2021-22 NSU Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine (KPCOM) Fellowship.

  • Leilani Batista
  • Grace Davidson
  • Jordyn Epstein
  • Sophia Ewald
  • Alisa Fedotova
  • Alexander Gannon
  • Lara Hoffman
  • Ava Lawrence
  • Samantha Macarounis
  • Katelyn Mathes
  • Parker Minars
  • Naomi Raisman
  • Ryan Sobol
  • Sam Weiner
  • Allie Ziegler

Throughout this yearlong immersive learning experience, student fellows delve into the field of medicine by participating in several labs alongside NSU College of Osteopathic Medicine professionals and develop essential skills that are going to be relevant to their jobs as future physicians. This prestigious fellowship opportunity, made possible through our unique partnership with Nova Southeastern University, is one of the many advantages of being a USchool student.

Education Professor Receives Distance Learning Award

Hui Fang “Angie Su

Hui Fang “Angie Su, a Department of Education professor at NSU’s Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice, received the Outstanding Leadership, Service, Contribution, and Excellence in the Field of Distance Education Award from the Florida Distance Learning Association (FDLA), a state chapter of the United Stated Distance Learning Association, at this year’s conference, which was held, September 29 through October 1, 2021.

The virtual conference welcomed K-20 educators and stakeholders. Its theme for this year was Emerging with New Digital Potentials.  The program was packed with informative topics such as Health Science, Technology Whiz-Kid, Educational Law, Internet Security, Digital Learning, Robotics, and Cognitive Guided Instructions. The purpose of the conference was to inform participants of the latest developments in Distance Learning, mathematics, and academic content-related topics in Florida.  Many Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice faculty and staff members, and colleagues from other colleges within NSU were keynote speakers and moderators at the conference.

Check out the Conference Program Book and presenter information.

Learn how you can become an active member of FDLA or a member of FAMTE throughout the year.

WCC Undergrad’s Short Documentary Wins First Place

Janay Joseph, NSU Writing and Communication Center (WCC) undergraduate consultant, and Halmos College of Arts and Sciences history and international studies major, won first place for her short documentary “She Had a Dream: Eula Johnson’s Fight to Desegregate Broward County” at the Undergraduate Student Symposium (USS), hosted by the Farquhar Honors College April 6-8, 2021.

Janay Joseph

Joseph’s “She Had a Dream” began as a short video project for her internship with History Fort Lauderdale, who helped produce the film along with her internship supervisor, Tara Chadwick. Joseph’s film focuses on Eula Johnson, a Civil Rights activist who led the Wade-ins protest on Fort Lauderdale Beach and became the first woman president of the NAACP Broward Chapter. Joseph’s video focused on Johnson’s story in an effort to inform others of her work as a Civil Rights activist, which led to the desegregation of Broward County Schools and other public facilities.

“I found her story inspiring since she was fearless in fighting for the rights of African-Americans including those outside of her community in Sistrunk,” she said. “With the recent Black Lives Matter protests it shows that a lot of the same issues she was fighting for in the past are still the struggles that Black people go through today. In a way, it links her past to our present. It was an honor to take first place and to see that her story resonated with so many people.”

NSU’s annual USS features and celebrates undergraduate student scholarship through poster displays, oral presentations, films, and performances. Representation in the USS often leads students to further research and publication, and presentation opportunities at both local and national conferences and conventions.

Watch Joseph’s “She Had a Dream: Eula Johnson’s Fight to Desegregate Broward County.”

Learn more about the NAACP Broward Chapter.

Learn more about the Undergraduate Student Symposium.

https://honors.nova.edu/student-symposium/index.html

Learn more about the NSU Writing & Communication Center.

 

HPD Library’s Virtual Series Teach About Lead Dangers

The NSU Press HPD Library is promoting the National Library of Medicine’s digital exhibit: “This Lead is Killing Us: A History of Citizens Fighting Lead Poisoning in Their Communities.” To complement the exhibit, we are hosting a web series with several virtual events focusing on the following topics: lead in drinking water, the health effects of lead poisoning, risk factors, screening process, statistics, overview of Florida’s Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, and restorative justice and systemic change and its intersection with environmental health. Visit lib.nova.edu/lead for webinar information (descriptions, dates, times, and registration), a link to the digital exhibit, and helpful resources.

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