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Recently, NSU Art Museum and Memorial Healthcare System launched a new Power Lunch menu in the Museum Cafe, along with a youth “eat the rainbow” initiative with Broward School Students. The first Power Lunch was attended by Laura Raybin Miller, Vice Chair of South Broward Hospital District’s Board of Commissioners, Pierre Flerismond, Executive Chef at Memorial Regional Hospital, Audra Nelson, Assistant Director of Pediatric Clinical Nutrition at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital. Also in attendance were Phillip Dunlap, Broward Cultural Division, Paula Levenson, AutoNation, Nila Do Simon, Venice Magazine, Marianne Ferro, Museum Board of Governors, Bonnie Clearwater, Museum Director and Chief Curator, Anna Sorenson, Museum Director of Development.

The Power Lunch menu and eat the rainbow initiative were inspired by the museum’s current exhibition, Happy!, which explores the pursuit of happiness through contemporary art. https://nsuartmuseum.org/exhibition/happy/

The Power Lunch features menu items developed by Memorial Healthcare System nutritionists that promote healthy eating. It’s an extension of the museum’s continuing focus on health and well-being that incorporates creative engagement, social interaction and intellectual stimulation.

 

Voters registered in Broward County are encouraged to take advantage of the ease and convenience of early voting at Nova Southeastern University and to cast their ballot for the Presidential Preference Primary Election. Students, faculty, staff and the general public can vote at the H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business & Entrepreneurship in rooms 1048 and 1049.

Polls will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. through March 15. Parking is available in the parking garage adjacent to the College of Business building.

Don’t miss out and vote today!

Early this February, Halmos College Dean Richard Dodge, Ph.D., a member of the Port Everglades Action Team, joined federal, state and local elected officials and other local business leaders today to welcome the news that Broward County’s long-awaited Port Everglades Navigation Improvements Project to deepen and widen the Port’s navigational channels can now begin with $29.1 million in funding under the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers FY 2020 Work Plan. The funding will be used to build a new facility for the U.S. Coast Guard Station Fort Lauderdale so the Intracoastal Waterway can be widened by 250 feet at a chokepoint where large Neo-Panamax cargo ships currently have operating restrictions that affect their ability to transit past docked cruise ships. The Coast Guard Station reconfiguration is the first phase of the larger dredging project.

The Port’s Navigation Improvements Project is anticipated to create an estimated 2,200 construction jobs and nearly 1,500 additional permanent direct jobs locally resulting from additional cargo capacity.

“This is a bi-partisan effort to make our navigation channels safer, globally competitive and environmental progressive. I applaud our Congressional Delegation for making this project a priority and recognizing the needs of our community,” said Glenn Wiltshire, Port Everglades Acting Chief Executive and Port Director. “Addressing this chokepoint is a critical step to widening the Intracoastal Waterway so cargo ships are able to transit to and from the southern part of the Port.”

On “Freedom’s Eve,” or the eve of January 1, 1863, the first Watch Night services took place. On that night, enslaved and free African Americans gathered in churches and private homes all across the country awaiting news that the Emancipation Proclamation had taken effect. At the stroke of midnight, prayers were answered as all enslaved people in the Confederate States were declared legally free. Union soldiers, many of whom were black, marched onto plantations and across cities in the south reading small copies of the Emancipation Proclamation spreading the news of freedom.

But not everyone in Confederate territory would immediately be free. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863, it could not be implemented in places still under Confederate control. As a result, in the westernmost Confederate state of Texas, enslaved people would not be free until much later. Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as “Juneteenth,” by the newly freed people in Texas.

The post-emancipation period known as Reconstruction (1865-1877) marked an era of great hope, uncertainty, and struggle for the nation as a whole. Formerly enslaved people immediately sought to reunify families, establish schools, run for political office, push radical legislation and even sue slaveholders for compensation. Given the 200+ years of enslavement, such changes were nothing short of amazing. Not even a generation out of slavery, African Americans were inspired and empowered to transform their lives and their country.

Juneteenth marks our country’s second independence day. Although it has long celebrated in the African American community, this monumental event remains largely unknown to most Americans.

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Source: Smithsonian

 

Halmos College is becoming a center of robotic oceanography! In cooperation with Teledyne Webb Research (TWR), the Halmos College Physical Oceanography Laboratory is pioneering the application of a new family of ocean gliders that, for the first time, can operate in strong currents like the Gulf Stream. These robotic instruments provide an unprecedented spatial resolution and report data through a satellite.

On February 10-14, eighteen participants from various institutions, companies, and government agencies from the USA, Canada, Estonia, Peru, Spain, and France gathered at NSU’s Oceanographic Campus to share experience and be trained in piloting these ocean gliders. This was the second annual glider training event conducted at NSU Halmos College’s Ocean Engineer Terry Thompson and Graduate Research Assistant and master’s student Mikayla Craven joined the ranks of trained glider pilots.

The College of Undergraduate Studies is seeking two Undergraduate Commencement student speakers; one student speaker for the morning ceremony and one for the afternoon ceremony.  Undergraduate commencement will be held Friday, May 8, 2020. For more information on undergraduate commencement please use the following link www.nova.edu/commencement/index.html .

Undergraduate students who are graduating this semester are eligible to audition to become the student speaker for their particular ceremony and represent their graduating class. This is a great honor and experience for any graduating student.

Auditions will be held on Wednesday, March 25, 2020 in the Mailman Hollywood Auditorium (second floor) from 4:00-6:00 p.m.

In order to participate in the auditions, please submit your intent to audition by using the link  www.nova.edu/commencementspeaker or you may contact Frank Majnerich at (954) 262-5144 / majneric@nova.edu. Mr. Majnerich will provide important details regarding the length of the audition and the theme for your speech and any additional information about the day of the auditions.

Early Life

Ernest Everett Just was born on August 14, 1883, in Charleston, South Carolina, to Charles Frazier and Mary Matthews Just. Known as an intelligent and inquisitive student, Just studied at Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire before enrolling at Dartmouth College.It was during his university years that Just discovered an interest in biology after reading a paper on fertilization and egg development. This bright young man earned the highest grades in Greek during his freshman year, and was selected as a Rufus Choate scholar for two years. He graduated as the sole magna cum laude student in 1907, also receiving honors in botany, sociology and history.

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Source: biography.com

Join the Alvin Sherman Library as they host StoryFest: Once Upon A Time on Sunday, March 8, 2020. This special event celebrates early literacy with storytelling, theatrical performances, arts and crafts, face painting, and costumed characters. Best of all, every child who attends will get to go home with a free book!

Volunteers are needed for greeting and check-in, giving out free books to kids, guiding costumed characters, managing event areas and lines, handing out water and snacks, and more. Please consider donating your time to this great free event for kids and families.

**Student Organizations – This can count towards your collaborative service event. Note this is not a SLCE sponsored event.

To sign up as a volunteer:
Check out the Volunteer Sign-Up Page 

If you and your family would like to attend the event (not volunteer), please RSVP: STORYFEST: ONCE UPON A TIME

March 8, 2020 | 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center
NSU Fort Lauderdale Campus

For more information, please contact Sarah Divine at sf787@nova.edu.

 

Congratulations to the NSU University School Lower School Shark Bots teams on advancing to the Florida State Championship. At the VEX Robotics Best in Southwest Challenge, USchool Team A won the Teamwork Champion Award, Team B won the Robot Skills Champion Award and the Build Award, which is presented to a team that has built a well-crafted and constructed robot, and Team C won the Teamwork Champion Award and the Judges Award, which is presented to a team that the judges determine is deserving of special recognition.

We are very proud of our robotics students for their hard work and we are looking forward to cheering them on at the State Championship on March 8.