Author: Christie Williams

Sharks Shine Academically with Program-Best Winter Semester to Cap Record-Setting Year

The winter semester provided more evidence that nothing can stop a determined Shark, as NSU student-athletes not only extended the program’s gold-standard academic tradition, but showed perseverance in excelling at record levels in spite of this semester’s obstacles. The Sharks produced a program-wide 3.40 grade point average for the program’s highest winter semester mark, coupling with the fall’s 3.27 to earn the highest annual departmental GPA on record at 3.33. (FULL STORY)

 

Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine Dean Receives Women of Distinction Honor

 

Elaine M. Wallace, D.O., M.S., M.S., M.S., M.S., KPCOM dean, was selected as a March of Dimes Women of Distinction honoree in late June. Women of Distinction honors and celebrates female leaders in South Florida who are chosen by the community and selected by an esteemed committee of past recipients and distinguished women leaders. Since its inception, the event has honored more 230 women innovators, influencers, philanthropists, and entrepreneurs who have effected change in the community and beyond.

James Moore Selected as NSU’s Women’s Soccer Head Coach

Following a four-year stint as the lead assistant coach of NSU’s men’s soccer program, James Moore will now make the transition to the women’s side. Moore was officially named Head Coach of the NSU women’s team on Monday, June 29.

Moore takes over a program that has collected its fair share of national recognition over the past five years thanks to five consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament, including a South Region Championship as recently as 2019.

“After an extensive national search that included very qualified candidates, James Moore has been selected to lead our nationally-renowned women’s soccer program,” said NSU Director of Athletics Michael Mominey. “Coach Moore rose above all other candidates as the process advanced, and will no doubt do great things in his new position. His passion, character and intelligence are clearly evident when you interact with James, and these innate skills will prove to be the keys to his success during his tenure as our head coach.”. (FULL STORY)

NSU Art Museum Launches Online Collection with Access to Over 2,000 Works

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale today announced the launch of the first phase of its new online collection catalogue that offers unprecedented access to over 2,000 of the 7,500 objects in its permanent collection. Now accessible on the NSU Art Museum website, nsuartmuseum.org, the online collection is part of the Museum’s efforts to enhance its digital resources and make them widely available to the public, scholars and students.

 “With our new online collection we are opening our doors even wider and inviting the world to explore the exceptional scope and depth of NSU Art Museum,” said Bonnie Clearwater, director and chief curator. “During the 1970s, the founders of the Museum sought to represent South Florida’s diversity in the art works collected and exhibited. The collection continued to grow with this goal in mind.”

 Today, NSU Art Museum is known for its significant collection of Latin American art, contemporary art with an emphasis on women, Black and Latinx artists, and African art that spans the 19th to the 21st-century, as well as works by American artist William Glackens, Danish artists who resisted German occupation during World War II and the international CoBrA group of artists that emerged in the war’s wake. The Museum draws from its collection for exhibitions exploring issues that resonate with the South Florida community and contribute to productive discussions that address identity, inequalities and injustices, encourage empathy and compassion, and inspire wonder.  

 The online site features a searchable database of a wide variety of media, along with curator notes, exhibition histories and bibliographic information. Visitors can submit their own search criteria or choose to browse among works displayed. They can also send queries directly from object pages to NSU Art Museum’s curatorial department. The Museum’s curatorial staff will continue adding entries to the online collection catalogue over the next two years.

 NSU Art Museum’s online collection is made possible thanks to support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sansom Foundation, Stanley and Pearl Goodman, Linda Marks, and Joan and Stephen Marks.

 Image credits (l to r): William J. Glackens, Sledding in Central Park, c. 1912. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; bequest of Ira D. Glackens. Philip Guston, Afloat, 1975. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; gift of Musa Guston. Mickalene Thomas, Portrait of Mama Bush 1, 2010. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; promised gift of David Horvitz and Francie Bishop Good. Wifredo Lam, Sans titre (Untitled), 1959. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; promised gift of Pearl and Stanley Goodman.

 

Conflict Analysis and Resolution Alumna Co-authors Article in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Jenny Chang, Ph.D.

Jenny Chang, Ph.D., doctoral graduate in Conflict Analysis and Resolution in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center, is the corresponding author and one of the co-authors of the article “Self-regulation of the newlyweds in Taiwan: Goals and strategies” published on June 30, 2020 in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. The article relates to a qualitative study of eight newlywed couples in Taiwan. Findings indicate that under the influence of Chinese culture, the newlywed participants pursue the goal of harmony in their marital and in-law relationships by using different self-regulatory ways proper to contexts to cope with their marital adjustment problems. While there are two types of harmony, genuine harmony and superficial harmony, the participants would try their utmost to attain genuine harmony (the preferred type of harmony) and then pursue superficial harmony only if genuine harmony is unattainable. The other co-authors included Szu-Chia Chang, Ph.D., Meng-Yeow Low, Ph.D., Tzu-Chin Chen, Ph.D., and Shih-Hsien Kuo, Ph.D.

Chang is currently an associate professor in the Department of Social Work in the School of History, Culture and Tourism at Huaiyin Normal University in China. She teaches courses in counseling, conflict and crisis invention. Chang not only blends theories with applicable practical conflict resolution skills, but also introduces the courses from cross-cultural perspectives to broaden students’ horizons.

 

 

NSU University School Students Earn National Recognition and Top Awards at the Junior Achievement National Student Leadership Summit

 

 

NSU University School is proud to congratulate our exceptional Junior Achievement (JA) Fellows Team for their success at the 2020 National Student Leadership Summit Awards. This extraordinary group of USchool entrepreneurs, who invented the Germ Genie™ kit, won second place for the coveted JA National Company of the Year Award. The annual JA Company of the Year Competition is a contest of business skills, ingenuity, and innovation.

Along with that incredible accomplishment, the JA Fellows Team also won the Best Financial Performance, Delta Social Impact and EY Innovation awards. Out of 500 student-run companies from around the nation, only 15 JA Fellow company teams were invited to compete at the JA National Student Leadership Summit.

Germ Genie stood out and earned the Delta Social Impact Award for creating a solution to address a local, national, or global concern by connecting customers and community. The Best Financial Performance Award was presented to the team for performing the best against criteria including profitability, investor expectations, employee earnings, product quality, leadership, and operational efficiency.

The Germ Genie team also had the opportunity to join Junior Achievement of South Florida’s Recipe for Success podcast to talk about their experience and achievements at the summit. To hear the team’s “Recipe for Success”, visit:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDksyu8dWqA&feature=emb_title

These students gained real world experience conceptualizing, capitalizing, and managing their own small business. They created an airplane tray table cover to help limit the spread of germs that also includes a travel pack including face masks, gloves, hand sanitizers, disinfectant wipes, and a head rest cover. Congratulations to student officers Henry Hurowitz (CEO), Daniel Gutkin (CFO), Romy Peretz (CMO), Jonah Lubin (VP of Operations), and Benjamin Sterne (VP of Sales) for their hard work and success. Special thanks to co-sponsors Wynne Avellanet and Sonja Houston and special advisor Karen Martin for guiding and supporting the team throughout this process.

To purchase your own Germ Genie kit to stay germ-free on the go, visit: https://germgenie.com/

The Student Wellbeing Webinar Series: Taking the bite out of Covid-19, Aug 24

 

August Discussion Series

The NSU Student CARE Team is dedicated to intervention, education, and outreach across all NSU Campuses. We offer presentations and training on various topics including resources (e.g. student disability services, CARE team, Student Counseling and Conduct) overview, as well as presentations aimed at academic success, well-being and life skills along with mental health awareness.

Mindful Choosing: Addiction Awareness (Bilingual Haitian Creole and English)

Aug 24th 12:00 – 1:00pm

By: Aline Milfort, 3rd year School of Psychology Doctoral Student; Julia Nucolo,3rd year School of Psychology Doctoral Student & Catherine Ivey, 3rd year School of Psychology Doctoral Student

Our presentation will discuss the basis of mindfulness as well as how to utilize mindfulness based on decision making in relation to alcohol and drugs. Attendees will learn and be able to discuss and apply this knowledge at the closing of the presentation.

Prezantasyon nou an ap diskite fondasyon yon teknik ki rele mindfulness, yon tèm ki konsantre konsyans nou sou yon moman prezan. Epi prezantayson sa ap diskite ki jan pou itilize fè desizyon an relasyon ak alkòl ak dwòg. Patisipan yo pral aprann epi konprann kijan pou diskite ak aplike sa yon aprann nan fen prezantasyon an.

For additional information, go to www.nova.edu/studentcare/

New Faculty Book Covers Contextual Trauma Therapy

Steven Gold

College of Psychology Professor Steven Gold’s new book, Contextual Trauma Therapy:

Overcoming Traumatization and Reaching Full Potential, builds on decades of research and experience from an NSU clinic.

Gold’s expertise includes working with adult survivors of prolonged childhood abuse (PCA) who experience difficulties in interpersonal relationships, and difficulty modulating emotional reactions and impulses. This is known as complex PTSD, or C-PTSD.

“It’s a broader set of difficulties often that interfere on a much broader level with general functioning,” Gold said. “The idea has been that in contrast to PTSD which can result from a single traumatic event, people with C-PTSD develop those difficulties as a result of repeated traumatic events.”

Gold is also the founder and director of NSU’s Trauma Integration and Resolution Program, one of the clinics housed in the Psychology Services Center.

 

WCC Executive Director Presents at the 2019 Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges Conference

Kevin Dvorak, Ph.D., professor and Executive Director of the NSU Writing and Communication Center (WCC), presented at the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges Conference in Houston, TX, December 7-10, 2019. Dvorak presented alongside Russell Carpenter from Eastern Kentucky University.

The 2019 SACSCOC conference theme was “The New Moonshot: A Giant LEAP for Education.” Their presentation, “Providing Course-Embedded Writing Support to First-Year STEM Students,” illustrated how institutions can design Quality Enhancement Plans that incorporate course-embedded writing support to students in first-year STEM courses to prepare them for both short- and long-term academic and professional success.

Having earned accreditation by SACSCOC, NSU continues to provide resources, programs, and services in order to accomplish and sustain the Principles of Accreditation: Foundations for Quality Enhancement. In addition to working directly with students, the WCC offers faculty support for teaching writing in the disciplines. The WCC continues to assist in writing embedded courses with writing fellows who serve as ambassadors for the center, in over 90 sections of Composition, and in disciplines like History and Political Science, and Speech-Language and Communication Disorders (CSAD), and more.

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Halmos Student Wins Marine Industries Memorial Scholarship

This June, Halmos College marine science graduate student Marissa Mehlrose was awarded the Frank Herhold Memorial Scholarship from the Marine Industries of South Florida (MIASF). The award was recognized in the MIASF 60th Anniversary Annual Meeting and Awards Event on June 24.

In her second year as a master’s student, Marissa thesis research is on the shortfin Mako sharks (Isurus oxyrinchus). They are an extremely important apex predator within the ocean environment, but their popularity as a commercial and sport fish has resulted in severe population decline.  Her research will be the first to examine the Mako shark population structure in the Atlantic using whole mitogenome data, which will provide a far more comprehensive and accurate view of the population than previous sampling methods.

Created in 1961, MIASF is a not-for-profit trade organization focused on the sound growth of the marine industry for the benefit of its members and their customers, local communities, and the environment. MIASF is comprised of more than 500 members in Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach counties and is the owner of the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show.

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