Author: Christie Williams

Men’s Soccer Team Shut-Out Tampa for First SSC Win

The NSU men’s soccer team battled to defeat the Tampa Spartans, 2-0, on Saturday evening, earning its their first Sunshine State Conference victory of the season in the process.

INSIDE THE MATCHUP:
Score: Nova Southeastern 2, Tampa 0
Records: Nova Southeastern (4-4-3, 1-3-1 SSC), Tampa (4-5-1, 2-3-1 SSC)
Location: Pepin Stadium | Tampa, Fla.
Get Social: Twitter – @NSU_MSoccer | Instagram – @nsu_msoccer | Facebook – /NSUSharksMensSoccer

HOW IT HAPPENED:

  • There was very little in the way of action for much of the first half, with the Sharks responsible for all five shots in the period. The only attempt for the first 20 minutes was blocked off the leg of Aleks Berg.
  • The Sharks had two more in a span of 34 seconds in the 22nd minute, but the first was also blocked and the second saved.
  • The Spartans finally had their first opportunity in the 50th minute, but the Sharks defense was able to knock it away.
  • The Sharks had four of five attempts over the next 10 minutes, forcing keeper Jake Richards to make three more saves, before Matty Cornish, aided by Berg, was finally able to get one by just before the 60-minute mark.
  • A flurry of shots followed, including four of the Spartans’ seven for the game. They hit the post in the 64th minute, while their ensuing rebound try sailed over the net.
  • Henrik Berg collected a Jan Luca Ahillen corner kick a minute later and tapped the ball in from the left side to double the Sharks’ lead.
  • The final 20 minutes of action saw just four more shots, with two of the three attempts by the Sharks saved by Richards. The Spartans’ final try, meanwhile, came with less than two minutes remaining and the game all but over.

 

Office of Human Resources to Host Health and Wellness Fair

Get Ready for a Spooktacular Time! NSU employees are cordially invited to attend the NSU Employee Health and Wellness Fair on Wednesday, Oct. 30, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm in the Don Taft University Center in the Arena on the 1st floor/main court.

At the Health and Wellness Fair, you will have the opportunity to:

  • Complete Biometrics Health Screening (Employees enrolled in the ICUBA medical Plan)
  • Earn $25 in Rally Rewards
  • Participate in a costume and pumpkin carving contest
  • Go Trick or Treating with vendors
  • Meet your NSU colleagues who can support your pursuit of wellness
  • Be bold – get a free flu shot
  • Have fun and win door prizes

There will be plenty of vendors, food, giveaways and doors prizes, so please plan to attend this year’s event!  We look forward to seeing you on October 30 and do not forget to bring your shark card!

Coming Soon: Bitlocker To Go Encryption For NSU Owned Windows Desktops and Laptops

The Office of Innovation and Information Technology will be enabling BitLocker To Go encryption for external hard drives and USB flash drives used with NSU owned Windows Desktops and Laptops on October 21, 2019.

How does BitLocker work? Bitlocker To Go is a Microsoft Windows feature that allows you to password protect and encrypt your portable device including external hard drives and USB flash drives when an attempt is made to connect to an NSU owned Windows Desktop or Laptop.

How will it benefit  you and NSU? Encrypting removable media means that if it is lost or stolen, NSU’s data will not be compromised and demonstrates due diligence. We have taken the direction of using this technology across all NSU Windows devices in order to prevent the exfiltration of all sensitive data.

To learn more about BitLocker To Go visit our Bitlocker FAQ website located at https://www.nova.edu/oiit/bitlocker/

Employee Wellness Seminar, Oct. 17

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  Breast cancer is a group of cancer cells (malignant tumor) that starts in the cells of the breast.  Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death among women. Did you know that 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime?

Upcoming Wellness Seminars

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, HCA Hospital will host a seminar on the Importance of Breast Cancer Screening.  We will honor all breast cancer survivors with a pinning celebration. Survivors at regional campus will be pinned by the director at their location.  The session will be available in person and via GoToTraining and will begin at 12 pm.

October 17, 2019

Employee Wellness Seminar: Understanding the importance of breast cancer screening and pinning of breast cancer survivors

 

$10 in Rally Rewards will be offered per seminar.  If you are attending the HCA Seminar in person, please register via Shark Talent.  If you are attending via GoToTraining, you are required to complete a quiz at the end of the session for Rally dollars.  As a reminder, spouses and/or domestic partners covered under the medical plan can attend the sessions via GoToTraining for Rally credits.

NSU to Host The Harlem Globetrotters in December – Get your tickets NOW, Dec. 13

The Globetrotters have always been innovators. Now they’re pushing the limits like only they can. Don’t miss the Pushing the Limits World Tour featuring new thrills, surprise moments and more player interaction than ever before. It’s a family experience like no other, where laugh-out-loud fun meets jaw-dropping athleticism. Put a new spin on family time!

The best seats are available now. Get yours today and for a limited time save up to 30%* by entering code AMAZING. And, upgrade your experience by adding Magic Pass to meet the stars, learn tricks and more before the game starts.

Rick Case Arena
Friday, December 13, 2019
7:00 PM

Magic Pass Information

*Offer valid until 10/16/2019 at 10:00 p.m. Valid online only by entering the code AMAZING in the special offer code box. Save on select tickets and price levels. Cannot be combined with any other offers. Player rosters and auxiliary talent in each city will vary and are subject to change. Not valid on previously purchased tickets. Additional fees may apply.

2020 Humanities Student Conference: CROSSROADS of the Transatlantic

The NSU Center for the Humanities will be hosting the 2020 Humanities Student Conference, “CROSSROADS” on Saturday, March 28, 2020. The conference builds on the concept of South Florida being the crossroads of the Transatlantic world and asks students to develop presentations that explore the convergence of cultures, values, and ideas evident in various humanities disciplines. Students from all academic institutions and at any level (high school, undergraduate, and graduate) are encouraged to participate. Please send inquiries to Dr. Andrea Shaw Nevins andrshaw@nova.edu or visit the NSU Center for the Humanities for further information: https://cahss.nova.edu/humanities/conference.html

NSU to Host 14th Annual Sallarulo’s Race for Champions, Nov. 2

Get out your running – or walking – shoes and sign up for the 14th Annual Sallarulo’s Race for Champions to be held here on our campus on Saturday, November 2nd.  Thousands of runners and walkers will participate in this 5K race to benefit Special Olympics Florida – Broward County.

Registration starts at 6:30 a.m. and the run starts at 8:00 a.m. in the circle on Abe Fischler Blvd.  ALL Alumni, Faculty, staff and students who sign up to run or walk with the NSU team, will have the $30 per person fee WAIVED. All registered participants will receive a free t-shirt and gift bag.  You can also choose to start your own fund raising page to help support Special Olympics.

Following the race, an awards ceremony will be held at 9 am. Special Olympics Florida – Broward County’s athletes, their families and all race participants are invited to stay and celebrate at the Carnival of Champions featuring breakfast and lunch, surprise celebrity guests, refreshments and entertainment.

Let’s support our own Special Olympic athletes.  NSU is the only private university in the country with a local Special Olympics chapter on its campus, now being housed permanently in the NSU University School sports center.  In fact, a member of NSU’s Board of Trustees, Paul Sallarulo, serves as Chairman of the Race for Special Olympics Florida – Broward County.

NSU’s partnership with this worthy organization is made possible by the late Don Taft, who had been committed to supporting special-needs children and young adults.  All proceeds from the race will benefit Special Olympics Florida –Broward County, whose mission is to provide year-round sports trainings and athletic competitions for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Registrations is available on line at http://sallarulosraceforchampions.org.  To register for the NSU team – just click register here and then on GET STARTED.  Make sure you use the code: NSU – to get your free registration.

NSU Hosted the Hispanic Unity of Florida Entrepreneur Summit

Hispanic Unity of Florida “Entrepreneur Summit 2019” on Friday, Sept. 20, 2019 at Nova Southeastern University in Davie.

The 8th one of its kind, the Entrepreneur Summit took place on Friday, September 20th at Nova Southeastern University. More than 300 aspiring & emerging entrepreneurs connected with dynamic presenters and workshop speakers, exhibitors, and American Dreamer Award recipients during this day-long learning and networking event showcasing the diverse array of businesses that contribute to South Florida’s economy. The E-Summit – presented by Chase – featured a much requested Master Class in the Art of Networking with Networking Guru, Heiko Dobrikow; Keynote Interview with Jim Ryan, Founder and CEO of OutPLEX and Co-Founder, The Venture Mentoring Team; and American Dreamer Awards & Panel Discussion moderated by WLRN’s Tom Hudson. Attendees learned from subject matter experts how to grow their businesses as well as strategies for success.

Predicting a Hurricane’s Intensity Can Prove Difficult – But Very Important

Rapid intensification is a serious challenge for the prediction of hurricane intensity. An example is Hurricane Maria in 2017, which intensified to a Category 5 storm within 24 hours and destroyed Puerto Rico. None of the computer models were able to predict it. A more recent example is Hurricane Dorian, which was predicted to become just a tropical storm, before it rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm and caused extensive damage in the Bahamas.

An Index to Better Estimate Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change in the Western North Pacific, published in the September 2019 issue of American Geophysical Union’s journal Geophysical Research Letters, includes a new operational algorithm that improves prediction of the rapid intensification that may occur in tropical cyclones within 24 hours. The paper is a collaborative effort between researchers from the United States and the Republic of Korea.

Alexander Soloviev, Ph.D., a professor and research scientist at Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography who co-authored the paper, said the new algorithm may be a game changer in the field of hurricane intensity prediction. This new index is expected to contribute to improvements in real‐time intensity forecasts, not only for the western North Pacific but also for other basins including Florida, the North Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.

“We have  taken into account the phenomenon of the ‘slippery sea surface’ under certain hurricane conditions, which is conducive to rapid storm intensification,” he said.

These results were previously published in the Nature Scientific Reports and the Journal of Geophysical Research and implemented in the new operational index for rapid intensification, which reduced the error of tropical cyclone prediction within 24 hour period by 16%.

“The objective of this study is to improve intensity prediction, especially in a short temporal range of 24 hours,” said Woojeong Lee, Ph.D., from the National Typhoon Center, Jeju, the Republic of Korea, who is the first author of this paper. “We developed a synoptic predictor for intensity change based on the microphysics study of the air-sea interface in hurricane conditions conducted by U.S. scientists from NSU, the University of Miami, the University of Hawaii and the University of Rhode Island.”

While track prediction of tropical cyclones (TCs) has improved steadily over the last three decades, there has been comparatively little advancement in intensity prediction due to the complicated physical mechanisms involved in internal TC dynamics and their interaction with upper ocean and atmospheric circulation.

NSU Researcher Urges the Consideration of Microbes for Space Colonization

With the recent celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo program’s first landing of humans on the moon, the eyes and hopes of the world again turned skyward.

The romantic notions of exploring and even colonizing space have been re-kindled, with the above and more recent movies such as The Martian and the fictional planting of potatoes. The ambitious spirit is further spurred by private space enterprises such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origins, and the idea that we may need a “Planet B”, as our own planet’s natural habitats become more stressed and the human population exponentially increases.

Jose Lopez, Ph.D., a professor at Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography, has now joined the movement with a peer reviewed scientific opinion article calling for a rational and systematic approach to future space colonization of Mars or other planets.  He and colleagues Raquel Peixoto and Alexandre Rosado from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro have just published the scientific opinion paper entitled “Space Colonization Beyond Earth with Microbes First” in the journal  FEMS Microbiology Ecology:

https://academic.oup.com/femsec/article/95/10/fiz127/5553461

Lopez is a research scientist and claims microbes would be a better immediate investment to successfully colonize the red planet.

“Life as we know it cannot exist without beneficial microorganisms,” he said. “They are here on our planet and help define symbiotic associations – the living together of multiple organisms to create a greater whole.  To survive on a barren (and as far as all voyages to date tell us) sterile planets, we will have to take beneficial microbes with us. This will take time to prepare, discern and we are not advocating a rush to inoculate, but only after rigorous, systematic research on earth.”

Lopez and colleagues now assert that this rigorous microbial research agenda needs to be implemented for any future successful colonization of Mars. Moreover, microbes should probably supersede current ambitions to send people to Mars or other solar system locales, as they can condition or terraform places we may want to eventually colonize.

In the long run, the effort will save humanity money, can be life-sustaining and boost microbiological understanding

However, to determine the most useful microbes for space requires a lot more research here on earth.

In the publication, the researchers encapsulate this idea into a potential research regime called PIP or “Proactive Inoculation Plan”, which encompasses the screening of potential hardy microbial candidates, toxic or lethal genes, and describing mechanisms for the most productive symbiosis.

“Life on earth started with relatively simple microorganisms which have the capacity to adapt and evolve to extreme conditions, which defined earth’s habitats in the ancient past,” Lopez said. “Cyanobacteria for example provided most of the oxygen we now breath more than two billion years ago. To the find the best microbial candidates, we will have to confer with many microbiologists and carry out research here on our home planet to find the optimal microbial species. “

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