Author: iharrell

NSU Law Students Emerge Regional Champions in Competition

In February, a team of students from the Shepard Broad College of Law’s Moot Court Honor Society represented NSU at the Brooklyn Regional of the American Bar Association National Appellate Advocacy Competition (NAAC) and were crowned Regional Champions!

Founded in 1978, the NAAC showcases teams from elite law schools across the nation and emphasizes the development of legal writing and oral advocacy skills through a hypothetical appeal to the United States Supreme Court. The competition involves writing a brief and arguing the case before a mock court, with attorneys, law professors, and sitting judges presiding.

This year, third-year law students Kelly O’Neil and Jonathan Bornstein, along with second-year student Jordan Stein, went undefeated in oral argument, prevailing over teams from Pace University, Quinnipiac University, Michigan State University, and the University of Notre Dame. In the regional finals, the judges voted unanimously in favor of the NSU team to project them to victory! Out of 178 teams, they are one of just 24 teams advancing to Nationals. This marks the third time in eight years that the Shepard Broad College of Law’s Moot Court Honor Society has reached this incredible goal under the direction of Professor Heather Baxter, who serves as Professor of Law, Moot Court faculty advisor, national competition team coach, and Director of the College of Law’s nationally ranked Legal Research and Writing Program.

Posted 03/13/22

Peer Consultant Featured in Locals -Only Miami Short Film Festival

Janay Joseph

Janay Joseph, NSU Writing and Communication Center (WCC) undergraduate peer consultant, was featured in the Locals Only Miami Short Film Festival, November 14, 2021. Joseph’s “She Had a Dream: Eula Johnson’s Fight to Desegregate Broward County” appeared in the documentary category. Joseph is a History and International Studies major in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences.

Joseph’s film tells the story of local civil rights leader, Eula Johnson, who led the 1961 Wade-in protests at Fort Lauderdale Beach; she was also the first woman president of the Broward chapter of the NAACP. Alongside Tara Chadwick, Joseph worked on the project during an internship with History Fort Lauderdale between January and May 2020. Joseph attributes part of her work on this project to the WCC, explaining that “while screening and promoting the film, I used a lot of writing and communication skills I gained from the Writing and Communication Center to clearly convey the message of the film. Also, during the filmmaking process, I talked with several members of the Sistrunk community who guided the messaging of this film”.

Joseph’s “She Had a Dream” debuted at the 2021 NSU Undergraduate Student Symposium, where it won first place among film projects.  Joseph also submitted the film to 16 other film festivals, both locally and globally. It was accepted by the Montreal Independent Flim Festival; Flint Youth Film Festival; Museum Talkies International Film Festival; First-Time Filmmaker Online Sessions;  MIAMI short FILM FESTIVAL; Woodstock Museum 22nd Annual Film Festival; Global Peace Film Festival; Encontro de Cinema Negro Zózimo Bulbul – Brasil, África, Caribe e Outras Diásporas 14 anos; and the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.

Access Joseph’s film and other films in the 2021 Locals Only category by visiting https://www.miamishortfilmfestival.com/2021-program-schedule/locals-only-volume-2/.

To learn more about the NAACP Broward Chapter, visit https://ftlaudnaacp.tripod.com/.

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

Posted 03/13/22

Graduate Assistant Coordinator Partners with Story Booth

Bianca Oliveira

Bianca Oliveira, NSU Writing and Communication Center Graduate Assistant Coordinator (GAC) and M.A. student in the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts’ Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media program, partnered with NSU’s Department of Humanities and Politics’ (DHP) community series, Story Booth, in collecting stories from the student body and community during Banned Books Week of the Fall 2020 semester, September 28 – October 2, and 2021 Carnival season, February 16 – March 16.

As the former undergraduate English major ambassador of DHP, Oliveira worked with Aileen Miyuki Farrar, Ph.D., DHP Associate Professor and Associate Chair, to encourage students to tell their stories. Fall 2020’s installation of Story Booth, “Ban Me,” asked participants to consider the constraints and liberties of censorship. Responses were posted to the Story Booth website, accessible here. Oliveira’s contribution was featured in the 18th volume of Digressions, NSU’s literary and arts journal. The Winter 2021 “Carnival” Story Booth asked students about the carnivalesque. Participants joined a Zoom recording booth to speak about their experiences with Carnival; Oliveira spoke on the history and cultural impact of Brazil’s Carnival. You can access all students’ stories here. Other Story Booth themes have included “Book to Film Adaptations,” “Two-Minute Memoirs,” “A Collaborative Truth,” and “Haunted Histories,” and “Friendship.”

The Story Booth series fosters community at NSU through literature and language, asking questions that prompt participants to create their own stories. Each Story Booth story helps connect the NSU community across the disciplines and cultures by sharing unique experiences of the authors. When asked how Story Booth relates to her work at the WCC, Oliveira asserts that “we need to question how we interact with others. When students visit the WCC, consultants are assigned roles larger than 45-minute tutors. Being cognizant of this can allow us to holistically assist those who seek our help.”

To learn more about Story Booth, you can visit their website at https://nsudhp.wixsite.com/storybooth.

More Information about the NSU Writing and Communication Center can be found here.

Posted 03/13/22

Halmos Professor Makes Multiple Telemundo Appearances

Julie Torruellas Garcia, Ph.D., displays a growth plate of bacteria from a swabbed mattress on the Telemundo’s Al Rojo Vivo.

Last month, the “Amenaza Escondida” (“Hidden Threats”) portion of Telemundo’s Al Rojo Vivo included three segments featuring Halmos’ Julie Torruellas Garcia, Ph.D.  The show’s producer swabbed washers/dryers, mattresses, and air ducts and brought samples to Garcia’s lab where undergraduate biology major Ashley Guillen-Tapia assisted with determining if E. coli and S. aureus were present in any of the samples.  The segments titled “Alertan sobre proliferación de bacterias en las lavadoras (Warning about the growth of bacteria in washing machines)”, “Bacterias en colchones: alertan por hongos y criaturas que podrían causar enfermedades (Bacteria on mattresses: warnings of fungus and creatures that can cause illness)”, and “Síndrome de la casa enferma podría afectar a tu familia (Sick house syndrome can affect your family)” can be viewed at the included links.

Torruellas Garcia is an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences. She earned her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Miami and conducted a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute. Research in the Garcia Lab is conducted exclusively by NSU undergraduate students and focuses on developing techniques to detect novel antibiotics that inhibit bacterial type III secretion systems, examining the efficacy of electrostatic sprayers for the delivery of disinfectants and identifying bacteria from everyday items for the news.

Posted 03/13/22

Halmos Hosts Graduate Science Research Symposium

On February 24-25, the Halmos College of Arts & Sciences (HCAS) held its 4th Biannual HCAS Graduate Science Research Symposium. The symposium included presentations from NSU graduate and postdoctoral students, faculty, & collaborators highlighting research from across the college. The event was organized by a committee from the Department of Biological Sciences in tandem with the Department of Marine & Environmental Sciences and the Student Government Association (SGA). Jose Lopez, Ph.D.; Tyler Cyronak, Ph.D; Rosanna Milligan, Ph.D.; Eben Gering, Ph.D.; Graduate SGA President, Gretchen Spencer; & librarian Keri Baker, all played an integral role in assuring the event ran smoothly both in person and online. The Graduate SGA greatly contributed to the event, organizing & providing coffee breaks, lunches, a banquet, & a post-event happy hour at the local LauderAle Brewery.

This year’s event welcomed two Keynote Speakers, Lauren Toth, Ph.D. & John K. Reed, M.S., whose research the community poured into the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Auditorium to hear. After the presentations, attendees participated in a vote to award their favorite student presenters. This year’s awards of Barnes and Noble gift cards were donated by the Department of Biological Sciences and were awarded to:

  • First Place: Vanessa Blanchard on “Parasites of raptorial birds of South Florida” and Camryn Pajon on “Carbon source driven metabolic buffering determines the co-existence of Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa”
  • Second Place: Colleen McMaken on “Microbial impacts on loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and green (Chelonia mydas) sea turtle hatching success”
  • Third Place: Nick Jones on “High incidence of partial colony mortality constrains realized growth for three coral species (Montastraea cavernosa, Porites astreoides and Siderastrea siderea) in southeast Florida”

Congratulations to the winners and everyone involved for another great HCAS Graduate Science Research Symposium! There is a possibility that the event could become a yearly occurrence run by a student committee in the future. We eagerly await to see what other types of research will be shared at the next event!

Posted 03/13/22

Learn About the Pitfalls of Big Data Misuse, April 14

Have you ever wondered how the misuse of big data has corrupted the credit lending process? Join us for the third installment of our Open Classroom series, titled “Financial Literacy and Credit: Pitfalls From the Misuse of Big Data,” on Thursday, April 14 at 5:00 p.m. in the Cotilla Gallery of the Alvin Sherman Library. Featuring host Andrea Nevins, Ph.D., M.F.A., and guest speaker Jason Gershman, Ph.D., this event will provide an open conversation on how the abuses and misuses of big data lead to unfair credit scoring and explore potential solutions to this pervasive problem. Click here (lib.nova.edu/openclass) to register for the event.

Credit scores were designed to increase fairness in credit lending but the recent rise in big data usage has led to abuses and misuses. Our guest speaker will discuss the basic mathematics and statistics that go into the FICO scores and how credit card companies and banks score potential clients in the lending process. He will demonstrate some abuses and misuses of this data and introduce some potential solutions that will begin to fix a flawed and broken process to prevent the development of a “weapon of math destruction.”

The Open Classroom is a collaboration between the Farquhar Honors College and the Alvin Sherman Library to bring disciplinary perspectives on contemporary issues through open conversations with experts in the field. The Open Classroom aims to bridge the gap between academic research and the general public and provide unique insights rarely seen in the media in an accessible way.

Posted 03/11/22

Associate Professor Pens Opinion Piece for Wall Street Journal

PHOTO: JOSHUA ROBERTS/REUTERS

Emre Kuvvet, an associate professor of finance at Nova Southeastern University, recently penned an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal on the politicization of the U.S. Federal Reserve.

Wall Street Journal subscribers can read the article here.

NSU faculty, staff, and current students can access The Wall Street Journal, including podcasts, finance tips, and career insights through the library’s portal here.

Have questions? Ask a librarian at the Alvin Sherman Library!

Posted 03/08/22

Impact of Social Media on Perceptions of Disability, March 15

Are you interested in learning about how social media affects disability? Join us for the second installment of our Open Classroom series, titled “TikTok Tourette’s: Social Media & Patient Narratives,” on Tuesday, March 15, at 5 p.m. in the Cotilla Gallery of the Alvin Sherman Library. Featuring host Andrea Nevins, Ph.D., M.F.A., and guest speaker Aileen Farrar, Ph.D., this event will provide an open conversation on how social media narratives are changing experiences, expressions, and perceptions of disability. Click here (lib.nova.edu/openclass) to register for the event.

Since the onset of the pandemic, healthcare professionals have reported a significant rise in the number of teenage girls with symptoms resembling Tourette’s, drawing support and criticism towards the social media platform, those seeking to bring awareness to disabilities, and the response of healthcare professionals to this unique and new phenomenon. The Open Classroom will allow you to explore this intersection between social media and disability as we continue to navigate unprecedented issues arising from the age of social media.

The Open Classroom is a collaboration between the Farquhar Honors College and the Alvin Sherman Library to bring disciplinary perspectives on contemporary issues through open conversations with experts in the field. The Open Classroom aims to bridge the gap between academic research and the general public and provide unique insights rarely seen in the media in an accessible way.

Posted 03/07/22

30-0 Sharks Head to Sweet 16 in NCAA Tournament

NSU men’s basketball team celebrate the Sunshine State Conference championship on Sunday, March 6, 2022.

After a nail-biter finish Saturday night to beat the Union Bulldogs, the undefeated Sharks are headed to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Division II Tournament. Next up is Embry-Riddle on Tuesday night at 7 at the Rick Case Arena.

Posted 03/07/22

NSU Art + Design Presents Guest Lecture/Workshop on March 8

Ivona Tau

The Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts and NSU Art + Design present a guest lecture with NFT AI artist and photographer Ivona Tau as part of its “Bridging the Gap: Tech & Art” series. Tau will share her experiences using artificial intelligence as a medium in visual arts, intersecting photography and machine learning to create her artwork.

For more information, contact Kandy Lopez-Moreno at klopez1@nova.edu

Posted 03/03/22

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