Author: Christie Williams

Education Professor and Master’s Students Publish Article

Hui Fang Huang “Angie” Su, Ed.D.

Hui Fang Huang “Angie” Su, Ed.D., and master’s students, Bhagi Phuyel, Chloe Johnson, Dylan Mandolini, and Shanyn Fleming  from NSU’s Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice (FCE&SCJ), had their article, Strategy to Estimate Size, published in the journal Dimensions in Mathematics.  The students are all mathematics teachers and instructors in k-12 schools and colleges in the US.  Their contributions to this article include their personal teaching experiences and mathematical knowledge.

The article is about using innovative strategies to obtain the measurement of a fictitious park and calculate its total area. The purpose is to introduce geometric concepts through investigative activities to engage students in learning. This article ties real-world “objects”, such as the national park, to geometric shapes and calculations used with a scale to help determine the total area of the park.

Dr. Su is a Professor of Mathematics Education at FCE&SCJ.  Her passion for teaching includes mentoring and encouraging students at all levels to extend their knowledge beyond their current abilities.

NSU Writing and Communication Center host annual Kinda Long Night Against Procrastination

Over 150 students visited the NSU Writing and Communication Center (WCC) for Kinda Long Night Against Procrastination (KLNAP) on Tuesday, November 19th, 2019, 6 – 10 p.m. Students received assistance on various writing assignments from WCC undergraduate and graduate consultants, and librarians from the Alvin Sherman Library.

Since 2014, the WCC has hosted KLNAP for students each fall and winter semester, right before the start of Finals. Students have the opportunity to walk-in and get quick individualized sessions or group consultations on research projects, final presentations, or multimodal assignments, from all stages, including pre-writing, writing editing/proofreading, and revising. Librarians assisted students with locating sources and fixing citations.

 During the Fall 2019 semester, the event began with over 100 students visiting during the first hour. Students were offered pizza, while a DJ from Radio X played downtempo/ambient music students could work to while working on their assignments.

“KLNAP is an amazing event that always makes me proud to be a part of it. Even before I began working at the WCC, DJ’ing for these events has always given me a deeper appreciation for the amazing work that the WCC does. I can always tell how grateful and involved the students who attend are for the WCC’s services,” said Adam DeRoss, Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media master’s student, and graduate assistant coordinator in the WCC. DeRoss has also DJ’d for KLNAP for the past 4 years, while in a lobster suit to add excitement to the room.

The WCC, in collaboration with Alvin Sherman Library; Tutoring and Testing; CAHSS School of Communication, Media, and the Arts; and other organizations on campus, will host the 2020 KLNAP on Tuesday, April 14 from 6:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. For more information about the NSU Writing and Communication Center, please visit www.nova.edu/wcc or call 954-262-8108.

 

 

 

 

 

 

NSU Alumna is Clinical Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University

Dorcas Matowe, Ph.D.

Dorcas Matowe, Ph.D. doctoral graduate from the Department of Family Therapy in NSU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) has been awarded a Clinical Scholar Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Family Institute at Northwestern University.

In addition to her doctoral degree from NSU, Matowe received an M. S. in Human Services from Capella University and a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Bennet College. She was a SAMHSA/AAMFT Minority Fellowship Award recipient in 2016 and 2018.

CAHSS invites you to the book launch and signing of Working JuJu Representations of the Caribbean Fantastic, Feb. 29

Andrea Shaw Nevins, Ph.D

Andrea Shaw Nevins, Ph.D., professor and assistant dean for Academic Affairs in NSU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS), will be the featured author on Saturday, February 29, 2020 at noon for the launch and signing of her book, Working JuJu Representations of the Caribbean Fantastic. The launch and signing will take place at the West Regional Library, 8601 West Broward Blvd., Plantation.

 Working Juju examines how fantastical and unreal modes are deployed in portrayals of the Caribbean in popular and literary culture as well as in the visual arts. For more information about Working JuJu, please go to https://ugapress.org/book/9780820356099/working-juju/

CAHSS to host Bill Carter and screen his documentary, Feb 22

The Department of History and Political Science (DHPS) in NSU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) and Gary Gershman, J.D., Ph.D., will host award winning author, filmmaker and photographer Bill Carter, on Saturday, February 22, 2020, from 5:00-7:00pm. Carter will screen his documentary Miss Sarajevo and discuss his time delivering supplies to and living in Sarajevo. This event will be held in the Auditorium on the second floor in Mailman Hollywood.

Gershman may be reached at ggershma@nova.edu and more information will follow.

Masterclass with David Lee Brewer at the Miniaci, Feb. 11

David Lee Brewer, mentor of Beyoncé, will be presenting a masterclass on Tuesday, Feb 11 at 4 p.m. in the Miniaci. This event is open and free to everyone. Students from the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences’ Department of Performing and Visual Arts will sing for David and he will provide vocal technique insight as well as music business knowledge to them.

To read more on David Lee Brewer, click here. https://www.brewer-international.com/en/the-teacher/

KPCOM Congratulates Student Award Recipients

First-year student Assad Ali received the Journal of Neuro-Oncology Award, which is presented for highly innovative and groundbreaking work in the areas of neuro-oncology and neurosurgery. The project, “Sex-Associated Analysis of MGMT Promoter Site Methylation in Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma,” explains the crucial relationship between genetic markers in glioblastoma and their apparent sexual dimorphism. The project will be presented at the American Academy of Neurological Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting being held April 25-29 in Boston, Massachusetts.

On February 8, second-year students Joshua Berko and Charles Bisbee, as well as first-year student Michelle Lanspa, will receive the Florida Osteopathic Medical Association Student Awards, which are based on criteria such as possessing leadership skills, political activity, and displaying significant interest in the osteopathic profession.

 

NSU Cancer Researchers Develop New Immunotherapy that can Lead to Treatment for Sarcoma

In a recent publication published in the Frontiers in Immunology journal, researchers from the NSU Cell Therapy Institute reported a novel anticancer cell therapy strategy that has the potential to be developed into new treatment for sarcomas and various other cancers.

A team of NSU researchers, lead by Dr. Adil Duru along with multiple international collaborators investigated a method of implementing cells of our immune system for treating sarcomas. Sarcomas are aggressive and metastatic cancers that affect bone or soft tissues. Most sarcomas are resistant to currently used anticancer therapies such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Therefore, survival outcome is poor and there is an urgent need for developing novel therapies for this disease. A team of scientists at NSU decided to investigate novel immunotherapy strategies for solving this unmet medical need. A type of immune cells known as Natural Killer (NK) serve as a major component of our innate immunity and are known to act as the initial line of defense against infectious pathogens as well as cancers. NSU researchers used genetically modified (GM) NK cells to target cancer cells.

Analysis of clinical samples obtained from sarcoma patients revealed that sarcoma cells express two markers, CD112 and/or CD155 that can be utilized by receptors on NK cells to detect, target and eliminate these cancer cells. Researchers also found that when they genetically modified NK cells to over-express the activating receptors, DNAM-1 and NKG2D, these GM NK cells exhibited enhanced cytotoxic effect against sarcoma cells. These findings reported in the recent publication are evidence of the potential of these GM NK for cancer immunotherapy against sarcoma.

Although this research was primarily focused on sarcoma, researchers also tested therapeutic efficacy of DNAM-1+ and NKG2D+ GM NK cells against other established tumor cell lines. Their findings indicate that besides sarcoma, this immunotherapy strategy can also exert anticancer activity against neuroblastoma, melanoma, Schwannoma, myeloma, leukemia, prostate, pancreatic, colon and lung cancer. The scientific findings reported in the recent article indicate that this immunotherapy strategy using GM NK cells holds significant promise and has the potential to improve the lives of cancer patients.

NSU would like to thank the Thorek Memorial Foundation and National Pediatric Cancer Foundation – Sunshine Project for supporting this innovative immunotherapy research.

About Thorek Memorial Foundation: Thorek Memorial Foundation was created to provide service to the community and to promote and foster understanding of various health and wellness concerns affecting the members of the community. The Foundation will use its resources to identify healthcare needs, improve population health, and address other needs within the community it serves. The Foundation will provide financial support to organizations in the community to assist their operations, activities, and fulfill their missions. Thorek Memorial Foundation will sponsor various scientific, educational and charitable endeavors that result from the identification of certain community health issues. Thorek Memorial Foundation will also support and enrich Thorek Memorial Hospital through various educational activities.

About National Pediatric Cancer Foundation – Sunshine Project: The National Pediatric Cancer Foundation (NPCF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding research to develop cure for childhood cancer. The Sunshine Project is an innovative collaboration initiated by the NPCF for improving the outcome of pediatric cancer. Its primary goal is to bring together oncologists and researchers across the nation to increase the survival rate for children affected with pediatric cancer.

About Nova Southeastern University (NSU): Located in beautiful Fort Lauderdale, Florida, NSU is ranked among U.S. News & World Report’s Top 200 National Research Universities and is a dynamic, private research university providing high-quality educational and research programs at the undergraduate, graduate, and first-professional degree levels. Established in 1964, NSU now includes 16 colleges, the 215,000-square-foot Center for Collaborative Research, a private JK-12 grade school, the Mailman Segal Center for Human Development with specialists in Autism, the world-class NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, and the Alvin Sherman Library, Research and Information Technology Center, which is Florida’s largest public library. NSU has campuses in Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Miami, Miramar, Orlando, Palm Beach, and Tampa, Florida, as well as San Juan, Puerto Rico, while maintaining a presence online globally. Classified as a research university with “high research activity” by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, NSU is one of only 50 universities nationwide to also be awarded Carnegie’s Community Engagement Classification, and is also the largest private institution in the United States that meets the U.S. Department of Education’s criteria as a Hispanic-serving Institution. For more information, please visit www.nova.edu.

 

Black History Moment 2020: Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive aimed at increasing the number of registered black voters in Mississippi. Over 700 mostly white volunteers joined African Americans in Mississippi to fight against voter intimidation and discrimination at the polls. The movement was organized by civil rights organizations like the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and run by the local Council of Federated Organizations (COFO). Freedom Summer volunteers were met with violent resistance from the Ku Klux Klan and members of state and local law enforcement. News coverage of beatings, false arrests and even murder drew international attention to the civil rights movement. The increased awareness it brought to voter discrimination helped pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

By 1964, the civil rights movement was in full swing. The Freedom Riders had spent 1961 riding buses throughout the segregated South, fighting Jim Crow laws that dictated where black riders could sit, eat, and drink. Martin Luther King, Jr. had given his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the August 1963 March on Washington as 250,000 people gathered before him at the Lincoln Memorial.

Despite all of this progress, the South remained segregated, especially when it came to the polls, where African Americans faced violence and intimidation when they attempted to exercise their constitutional right to vote. Poll taxes and literacy tests designed to silence black voters were common. Without access to the polls, political change in favor of civil rights was slow-to-non-existent. Mississippi was chosen as the site of the Freedom Summer project due to its historically low levels of African-American voter registration; in 1962 less than 7 percent of the state’s eligible black voters were registered to vote.

To read more, click here.

Source: History.com

Fischler Academy Students and Members of NSU’s Women’s Basketball Team Visit Jackson Hospital Ronald McDonald House

In early January, students from NSU’s Fischler Academy and members of NSU women’s basketball team provided dinner and entertainment for 18 families at the Jackson Memorial Medical Center Ronald McDonald House in Miami.

Fischler Academy students, Eloise Nieto, Tianna Harris, and Grace Keilbach organized the menu along with fun activities for the families. Maria Bardeeva, Sarah Kelly, Jordan Tully, and Makenna Drabik, members of NSU’s women’s basketball team, helped prepare dinner and played with the children at the center, bringing them lots of smiles in a fun-filled evening that included a sock signing, contests and prizes.A Ronald McDonald House provides a place for families to call home so they can stay close by their hospitalized child at little to no cost.  The House was built on the simple idea that nothing else should matter when a family is focused on the health of their child – not where they can afford to stay, where they will get their next meal or where they will lay their head a to rest at night.

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