Author: Christie Williams

Boom Bust Boom: A Story about Copper, the Metal that Runs the World

Boom Bust Boom: A Story about Copper, the metal that runs the world
Author Bill Carter, writes from “a first-rate writer in the fascinating tradition of Junger and Krakauer” (Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall), a sweeping account of civilization’s complete dependence on copper and what it all means for people, nature, and the global economy.

Date:  Thursday, February 20, 2020
Time:  6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Location:  Second Floor, Cotilla Gallery

Q & A to follow moderated by Gary P. Gershman, J.D., Ph.D, NSU College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

COPPER is a miraculous and contradictory metal, essential to nearly every human enterprise. For most of recorded history, this remarkably pliable and sturdy substance has proven invaluable: not only did the ancient Romans build their empire on mining copper but Christopher Columbus protected his ships from rot by lining their hulls with it. Today, the metal can be found in every house, car, airplane, cell phone, computer, and home appliance the world over, including in all the new, so-called green technologies.

Yet the history of copper extraction and our present relationship with the metal are fraught with profound difficulties. Copper mining causes irrevocable damage to the Earth, releasing arsenic, cyanide, sulfuric acid, and other deadly pollutants into the air and water. And the mines themselves have significant effects on the economies and wellbeing of the communities where they are located.

CAHSS and First Year Experience host “The Reel” Annual Film Series, Feb. 5

Kate Waites, Ph.D.

NSU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) is delighted to invite you to the NSU Annual Film Series “The Reel.” The series features movies and discussion facilitated by Kate Waites, Ph.D., Aileen Farrar, Ph.D., and Yvette Fuentes, Ph.D., faculty in the Department of Literature and Modern Languages.

The next movie featured is Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther, on February 5 (Wednesday), 6:00-9:00 p.m. in the Mailman-Hollywood Auditorium, 2nd floor.  Aileen Farrar, Ph.D., will facilitate discussion. Come and enjoy the movie, discussion, and snacks. The event is free!

Grossing over $1.3 billion, director Ryan Coogler tells the story of T’Challa, who returns home to the African nation of Wakanda to take his place as king after the death of his father. Faced with treachery and danger, he must rally his allies and release the full power of Black Panther to defeat his foes and secure the safety of his people and the world.

 

Halmos College Presents a Talk on Soccer Tournament Matrices

On Thursday, January 30, at 12:35 p.m. Halmos mathematics faculty member Lei Cao, Ph.D. will present a talk titled “Soccer Tournament Matrices”.

In this talk, he will present a combinatorial object, soccer tournament matrices, which is understandable to undergraduate students and gives a taste of combinatorial matrix theory.

Consider a round-robin tournament of n teams in which each team plays every other team exactly once and where ties are allowed. A team scores 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, and 0 point for a loss, then each particular result leads to a soccer tournament matrix. Let T(R, 3) denote the class of all soccer tournament matrices with the row sum vector R. In this talk, I will explore some necessary conditions of a vector R, such that T(R, 3) is nonempty with the audience, and then for some R, I will show an algorithm to construct a soccer tournament matrix whose row sum is R.

Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography department of mathematics hosts the mathematics colloquium series in Parker Building, Room 338. For more information about the math colloquium series, please contact mathematics faculty member Jing Chen, Ph.D. (jchen1@nova.edu) or Evan Haskell (haskell@nova.edu).

Grant Proposal Writing, Feb. 5

The Grant Writing Laboratory and the Office of Sponsored Programs provide Lunch & Learn Grant Workshops on a series of grant related topics. The annual 2020 Lunch & Learn Grant Workshop Series is for NSU faculty and staff continues this Wednesday, February 5 with “Grant Proposal Writing.” We are pleased to share that the 2020 series will feature nine sessions on a variety of topics.

All workshops are scheduled from noon – 1:00 p.m. in the HPD Chancellor’s Dining Room. A light lunch is provided. Registration is REQUIRED so please RSVP at www.nova.edu/osp/lunchandlearn/ for any or all of the workshops. For more information, please contact grantlab@nova.edu  .

 

 

NSU University School Students Selected As Miami Herald Silver Knight Awards Nominees

NSU University School is proud to congratulate the seniors who have been selected as nominees for the Miami Herald Silver Knight Awards, one of the nation’s most highly regarded student awards programs. These outstanding students are being recognized for their commitment to academics and for generously applying their specialized knowledge and talents to contribute significant service to their schools and communities. All nominees from schools in Broward and Miami-Dade counties will be interviewed by a panel of independent judges who will select one Silver Knight and three Honorable Mentions in various categories. Winners will be announced at the Silver Knight Awards ceremony in the spring.

Congratulations to USchool’s nominees for demonstrating excellence in their respective categories.

NSU University School nominees (from left to right) and the categories they will be competing in are:

Alex Feder-Trosclair: Science

Grace Rivero: World Languages

Sivan Ben-David: General Scholarship

Amanda Ellman: Social Science

Jonas Meltzer: Athletics

Ronnie Shashoua: Mathematics

Samantha Feder-Trosclair: English

Grey Smoley: Digital & Interactive Media

Sophia Borzillo: Business

SLP Department Chair Contributes Chapter to “The Clinical Education and Supervisory Process in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology” by Elizabeth McCrea and Judith Brasseur

Wren S. Newman, SLP.D., CCC-SLP

Wren S. Newman, SLP.D., CCC-SLP

Wren S. Newman, SLP.D., CCC-SLP, department chair and assistant professor for Speech Language Pathology at Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences, contributed a chapter to a book published in November 2019 titled The Clinical Education and Supervisory Process in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. Authors Elizabeth McCrea and Judith Brasseur assembled important current research and best practices in clinical education and supervision into one comprehensive resource. Dr. Newman, considered an expert in the field, contributed the chapter on “The Ethics of Clinical Education and Supervision.”

Dr. Newman first began presenting on the topic of supervision in the field of Speech-Language Pathology in 2000 and has published numerous articles since to address individual and cultural differences in supervision as well as ethical issues associated with the supervisory process. As the department chair for the largest speech language pathology program in the country, which is being offered at the master’s level at seven locations throughout the state of Florida, online, and in blended formats via cohorts in California and Washington state, Dr. Newman has developed unique expertise in distance training of clinical supervision. Dr. Newman has an extensive history of service to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), serving on multiple committees and boards, including, but not limited to, the Board of Ethics, the Council for Clinical Certification, and the Committee on Leadership.

The Clinical Education and Supervisory Process in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology by Elizabeth McCrea and Judith Brasseur is now available at online book retailers including Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

For more information on Nova Southeastern University’s Speech-Language Pathology program offered at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels, visit https://healthsciences.nova.edu/slp/masters/index.html.

 

NSU Speech-Language Pathology Students Win 2018-2019 Chapter of the Year Award at National Conference

Nova Southeastern University’s chapter of the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA) was presented with the coveted Chapter of the Year award at the 2019 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention held November 21-23, 2019 in Orlando, Florida. NSSLHA is the only national student organization for pre-professionals studying communication sciences and disorders recognized by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). NSSLHA supports more than 12,040 members and over 320 chapters at colleges and universities nationwide.

The “Florida Sharks”, as the NSU NSSLHA chapter is called, stood out because of their exceptional dedication to the association’s core values leadership, collaboration, education, diversity, service, and integrity. Despite the chapter’s countless initiatives which included submitting letters to legislators focusing on federal funding for children with disabilities, sharing information and sparking conversation about communication disorders on World Cerebral Palsy Day and World Thrombosis Day, and collecting more than $3,000 worth of donations for many organizations, the group remains humble stating, “This isn’t about the Chapter Honors award, it’s about students committed to the professions and the future of CSD [Communication Sciences and Disorders].” Congratulations, Sharks! You make us proud!

 

 

WCC Undergraduate Consultants Compete in Florida Model United Nations Conference

Undergraduate students at NSU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) and NSU Writing and Communication Center (WCC) consultants competed in the Florida Model United Nations (FMUN) conference, hosted by Santa Fe College in Gainesville, FL. on Oct. 11-12, 2019.

The Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Model United Nations Team, sponsored by CAHSS, won the Distinguished Delegation Award for their answers during the debate. Genesis Alvarez (CAHSS & Farquhar Honors College) Legal Studies student, and Janay Joseph (CAHSS) History and International Studies student, both served as delegates for the Nova International Relation Association (NIRA) to represent South Africa in the General Assembly. Alvarez is also Vice President for the NIRA Executive Committee.

Topics discussed during the conference included economic globalization and sustainable transportation. During the debate, the delegates wrote resolutions and advocated for policies that matter the most to the assigned countries.

Joseph, a second year member of Model UN, expressed her gratitude for involvement in extracurricular opportunities at NSU, stating, “I feel like I had more of an expanding role in this year’s conference, since last year I was getting my feet wet in how the Model UN functions and how to represent my country. Through my work at the WCC, now I am able to help my fellow Model UN team members with their position papers.”

To learn more about NSU’s Department of History and Political Science, visit https://cahss.nova.edu/departments/hps/undergraduate/political-science/index.html

Halmos College Inducts Students into the 2020 Clinical Exploration Program

This January, the Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography inducted 80 students into the Clinical Exploration Program (CEP). CEP offers students the opportunity to shadow medical professionals in many of NSU’s medical and health clinics. Program participants gain a broad perspective that shows how various medical fields work together and a practical, up-close review of several medical career options. There are currently 177 active students in the program.

Founded in 2006, CEP is free to join and voluntary. It allows NSU students of all majors to shadow in nine NSU clinics. They include Athletic Training, Audiology, Dental Medicine, Internal Medicine, Occupational Therapy, Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, Optometry, Pediatrics, and Sports Medicine. Since its inception, this cornerstone of Halmos College’s experiential learning, over 1,600 rotation assignments have been completed by 900 students.

 

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