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USchool’s Global Scholars Take Part In International Education Week

As part of International Education Week, our Global Scholars participated in Nova Southeastern University’s Global Village, an annual celebration of cultural diversity and international opportunities. Students shared their culture and country pride with the NSU community, as well as information regarding our International Friendship Club and the many cultures represented at USchool.

Learn more about NSU University School’s college preparatory program for students in Preschool – Grade 12 at www.uschool.nova.edu.

Posted 12/11/22

Miami Edison High-Schoolers Participate in Shark Speak Program

A group of students from Miami Edison Senior High School are getting in-depth English lessons thanks to a student at the Fischler Academy at NSU’s Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice (FCE&SCJ).

The five high school students currently visit NSU’s campus where they partake in the Shark Speak project with Fischler Academy student, Gisel Egeraige, and Fischler Academy alumna Eloise Nieto.

Shark Speak is an interactive English acquisition program that accelerates the learning of the 100 most commonly used English words. The project was developed by Nieto and project supervisor Daryl Hulce.

The program is designed around using the 100 words in everyday settings such as going to the store or what is likely to be heard at school. At the core of the program is an activity called “May I Have… Please?,” where items that appeal to the learners, such as food and personal care products, are placed on a table and the students are taught to politely ask for them.

The students use the phrase “May I have… please?” filling in the blank with the items on the table. This repetition makes learning fun and provides a feeling of quick success for the students.

The lessons are led by Egeraige, who is in turn coached and supervised by Nieto, who teaches English as a second language at Miami Edison. The students have been taking well to the lessons and have spoken highly of the experience. Nieto said that additional students have even approached her and asked to participate in the program.

For more information on the Shark Speak program, please contact Daryl Hulce at hulce@nova.edu.

Posted 12/11/22

University School Student Publishes His First Book

Inspired by his experience in our Community Service and Leadership Seminar, USchool senior Tomer Shaked wrote and published a book titled “Game Over” that tells his story of overcoming an obsession with video games and dedicating his time to do good for others instead. Tomer is donating 100% of the book’s proceeds to the Jack & Jill Center, the place where his passion for helping others was awakened. He plans to continue volunteering and supporting the organization.

His book is available on Amazon: https://a.co/d/evVD0O8. We are proud of you, Tomer!Learn more about NSU University School’s college preparatory program for students in Preschool – Grade 12 at www.uschool.nova.edu

Published 12/11/22

LatinX Conference Presentation Receives Positive Reception

Diana Formoso, Ph.D., and members of the Unaccompanied, But Not Alone research team in the College of Psychology presented a symposium entitled Strengths and Needs of Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors and their Caregivers:  Working Collaboratively Across Disciplines to Fill Resource-Need Gaps at the National Latinx Psychological Association in Denver, CO. The talks focused on the strengths and needs of unaccompanied immigrant youth and their caregivers, balancing protection and autonomy for UIM in the U.S. refugee foster care system, and how we used community asset mapping methods to develop a community resource guide for migrant youth and families in South Florida.

The presentation was very well-received, with comments noted about how the various projects exemplified the strengths of community-based work (for example, interviewing migrant youth and professionals who work with them, forming a community advisory board), the importance of building trusting, respectful relationships with community partners, how to harness the University’s mission of community engagement and the privilege of education to build community resources and resilience, and the power of organizing and sharing community resources to support migrant youth and their families.

This work was made possible by a President’s Faculty Research and Development Grant and the commitment and hard work of the students in the Unaccompanied, But Not Alone research team: Jocelyn Meza, Adriana Wilson, Melissa Perez, Marianela Pena-Martinez, Veronica Grosse, and Courtney Clark. The NSU team was joined by Dr. Maria Fernanda Garcia from the University of Miami.

Posted 12/11/22

PT Program Helps Provide Free Parkinson’s Course

NSU Tampa Bay’s Physical Therapy program teamed up with a local non-profit Parkinsonlife Corporation (pdLIFE) and provided a FREE Continuing Education Course on the rehabilitative management of individuals with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) on November 19 – 20, at the Tampa Bay campus.  The continuing education course included both presentation and lab sessions where individuals with PD allowed rehabilitation treatments to be practiced and applied.

Individual with PD allowing concepts to be applied.

The goal of the continuing education course was to train local therapists in the best practices of care for individuals with Parkinson’s Disease and increase the number of therapists in the bay area who can effectively treat individuals with PD.

Ryan Duncan D.P.T., PT, a researcher and faculty member at Washington University, presented to 30 Bay Area therapists, including alumni from the Tampa Bay D.P.T. program.  Parkinsonlife Corporation was founded and developed by Meredith Defranco, D.P.T., PT, during the pandemic and has continued to thrive.  Providing this continuing education course was one step in pdLife’s goal of establishing interdisciplinary care teams for the management of individuals with PD in the Tampa Bay area.

For more information, please visit Parkinsonlife Corporation (pdLIFE) at https://parkinsonlife.org/.

Posted 12/11/22

LEC Conference Connects, Engages, And Inspires

NSU’s Learning and Educational Center (LEC), under the direction LEC’s executive director, Diane Lippe, Ed.S., hosted a two-day virtual conference that showcased a variety of NSU educators presenting on a wide array of topics. The theme for the conference was, “Connect, Engage, Inspire,” and it gave NSU faculty and staff an opportunity to share their knowledge and practices with other educators at the university. Presentations covered teaching strategies, technology tools, BEDI (belonging, equity, diversity, and inclusion) practices, student engagement, and more. Some sample presentation titles were: “That’s Debatable: How to Create Better Writers Using Micro-Debates,” “Developing and Using Vision Statements to Enhance Course Design and Improve Student Outcomes,” and, “Connecting Faculty and Student (Re)Engagement with Relationship-Rich Education.”

Presenters represented the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice, the H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship, the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, the Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences, the Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, as  well as the Writing and Communication Center and the Learning and Educational Center. The conference also included two highly engaging presentations by Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs, Ron Chenail. According to conference organizer Marti Snyder, Ph.D., “Opportunities such as this year’s virtual conference facilitate sharing of teaching and learning best practices across NSU. We were thrilled to have 250 registered attendees representing all NSU colleges and many offices. We are grateful to our attendees, presenters, LEC staff, and the LEC Advisory Council for their contributions to this successful event.”

Congratulations to the Learning and Educational Center for organizing and hosting the 2022 Teaching and Learning Conference!    To watch the video recordings of the conference presentations, please visit the conference playlist here. You can also visit the Learning and Educational Center’s website here.

Posted 12/11/22

International Relations Association Gets Several Awards

The Nova International Relations Association (NIRA) housed in the Department of Humanities and Politics (DHP) in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center (HCAS) participated in the 17th Annual Florida Model United Nations Conference (FMUN) in Gainesville, FL.  NSU received eight awards, the highest they have ever won at this conference.

Eighteen undergraduates (16 members of the POLS 2400 class and two returning members including NIRA President Mohammed Husain). At the conference they competed against other universities from across Florida and Georgia. Despite being the smallest group of returning delegates, just 2, and the rest being first time participants, they won 8 awards!

NSU swept the highest award category – Outstanding Delegation for Meroshah Khan and Alexis Lass (Australia) and Paula Rey and Ivanna Cortez (Colombia).  Rey also won an Outstanding Delegate award for her work marking her as the best delegate in her committee.

Hailee Delgado and Olivia Jones won a third-place award (Honorable Award) for their representation of New Zealand. There were also numerous individual awards: Jordan Parris, Kiara Colman, and Emily Velazquez won awards for their position papers, and Alexander Trofimov won the award for most improved delegate in his committee.

For more information, please contact advisor, G. Nelson Bass, Ph.D. at nbass@nova.edu

Posted 12/11/22

Halmos Biological Sciences Team Shares STEM Innovations

From left, Emily Schmitt Lavin, Ph.D.; Alexander Lavin; Valentina Ramirez; Sophia Nguyen; Carol Manikkuttiyil; and Thuy Pham.

The Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center (HCAS) Department of Biological Sciences Team shared innovations in undergraduate STEM education at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2022 Transforming STEM Higher Education Conference,  https://www.aacu.org/event/2022-stem

The presentation highlighted STEM education outreach work that is a partnership between NSU’s Department of Biological Sciences, Broward County Public Schools, and the non-profit, Science Alive www.sciencealivefl.org.  Additional funding came from Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society (https://www.sigmaxi.org/) . The team included students and faculty from NSU, University of Central Florida (UCF), and Nova Blanche Forman Elementary School, Broward County Public Schools. The work presented was by: Emily Schmitt Lavin, Carol Manikkuttiyil, Alina Poothurail, Alexander Lavin, Philopatier Ibrahim, Aleessa Celestin, Michele Parsons, and Aarti Raja and was titled, Science Buddies: A sustainable, scalable, and relatable afterschool STEM program led by college students.

Current and alumni team members were able to share experiences through the meeting of the NSU Biology Alumni and Community Advisory Group while at the conference in D.C. Specifically, current undergraduate students were able to collaborate with our alumni (BS Biology Class of 2018) Valentina Ramirez, M.D., Uniformed Services University (Class of 2022) and currently a Navy Orthopedic Surgeon in Training and Sophia Nguyen, soon to be D.O. from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Georgia (Class of 2023).

Posted 12/11/22

Halmos Faculty, Alumna Present at Conflict Resolution Conference

McKay

Judith McKay, J.D., Ph.D., director of the doctoral program and faculty in the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies (DCRS) in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center (HCAS), presented at the 2022 Association for Conflict Resolution Annual Conference held in Orlando and virtually. She invited DCRS alumna, Michelle Cromwell, Ph.D., to co-present. The theme of the conference was Evolving Horizons in Conflict Resolution. McKay and Cromwell’s presentation was titled, Holistic Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence: Prevention and Intervention.

In addition, McKay is the faculty adviser to the Social Justice Roundtable and works with students in the community through Community Resolution Services (CRS), a practicum and volunteer site for DCRS. CRS hosts Story Café, We Love our Families series, The Women’s Roundtable, and is involved in offering workshops for the county’s Crisis Intervention Teams, and other events for community groups and organizations. She is also the Co-director of the NSU Council for Dialogue and Democracy (CDD).

Cromwell

McKay’s scholarly interests include conflict coaching, strategic community planning, violence prevention and intervention in family, neighborhood, and organizational conflicts.  For more information about Community Resolution Services and the CDD please contact McKay at mckayj@nova.edu.

Michelle Cromwell, Ph.D., is an M.S. and Ph.D. graduate of DCRS. She is currently the inaugural Vice-President for Inclusive Excellence and Belonging at Sonoran University of Health Sciences in Tempe, AZ.  Previously she was named the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the State University of N.Y. at Plattsburgh and the Associate Vice President for Inclusive Excellence at Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, and as the Chief Diversity Officer at The School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont.

In 2018, Cromwell was named as one of NSU’s Distinguished Alumni. In addition to Cromwell’s NSU graduate degrees, she received a B.Sc. in Social Work from the University of the West Indies in Trinidad where she was born.

Posted 12/11/22

USchool Seniors Are Nominated For Silver Knight Awards

Front row from left: Gabriella Egozi (Speech/Debate), Madeline Musso (Dance), Joey Goldstein (Science) Back row from left: Dana Wrubel (Digital Media), Arie Perczek (Math), Sofia Aronsky (General Scholarship), Tomer Shaked (Vocational), Lila Meltzer (Social Science), Shayna Soffer (Drama)

We are proud to announce the nominees for the 2022-23 Miami Herald Silver Knight Awards, one of the nation’s most highly regarded student awards programs that recognizes outstanding students for their community service and academic achievements. Congratulations to these seniors (pictured above) for demonstrating excellence in their respective categories!

All nominees from Miami-Dade and Broward County schools will appear on a designated day to be interviewed by a panel of independent judges who will select one Silver Knight and three Honorable Mentions in various categories. Winners will be revealed at the Silver Knight Awards ceremony in the spring.

Learn more about NSU University School’s college preparatory program for students in Preschool – Grade 12 at www.uschool.nova.edu.

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