Category: Communities

Broward Youth Coalition Attends Performance on Bullying, Autism

NSU’s Sociodrama Club: Stage for Change had members of United Way’s Broward Youth Coalition in the audience for their recent performance, Sticks and Stones: A Provocative Sociodrama about Bullying and Autism Spectrum Disorder.

The Broward Youth Coalition, which is comprised of middle and high school students, watched three powerful scenes that demonstrated bullying taking place and escalating amongst middle school children and a victim with autism spectrum disorder.  Associate Professors, Grace Telesco, Psy.D. and Maribel Del Rio-Roberts, with NSU’s Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice facilitated the interactive show. The facilitators would freeze the scene and promote thought provoking dialogue between the audience and the NSU student actors who remained in character. The event was set up by Assistant Professor, Maria Levi-Minzi, Ph.D., Department of Human Services.

The goal of the Broward Youth Coalition Leadership Program is to foster positive youth development using a public health approach to prevent substance abuse in young people by promoting protective factors.  The coalition works to create positive, sustainable change among peers, parents and adults in their local neighborhoods, communities, and schools.

For more information on NSU’s Sociodrama Club, please contact faculty advisor, Dr. Grace Telesco at gt423@nova.edu

Posted 04/24/22

DCMA/NSU Dance Present Student Choreography Showcase

Come and witness powerful original work performed and choreographed by NSU Dance in the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts.

  • Dates/Times: Friday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m. | Saturday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m.
  • Location: Performance Theatre
  • Free event open to the community

For more information, please contact Elana Lanczi at lanczi@nova.edu

Posted 04/22/22

NSU Gets Free Sneak Peak of Miami City Ballet Orchestra

Enjoy the Miami City Ballet Orchestra rehearsal presented by the Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts on Wednesday, April 27, 2022, at 7 p.m. This rehearsal is exclusive and FREE to NSU staff, faculty, and students, including NSU University School.

Gary Sheldon

Watch, Listen and Learn as the Miami City Ballet’s orchestra rehearses their upcoming performance pieces as narrated by Principal Conductor and Music Director Gary Sheldon.

Scores to which Miami City Ballet performs: For more information and to purchase tickets to upcoming ballet’s visit Miami City Ballet @  www.MiamiCityBallet.org.
Principal Conductor and Music Director Gary Sheldon returns as music director and principal conductor of Miami City Ballet, now in his 12th season.  He has also held conducting positions with Atlanta Ballet, BalletMet and San Francisco Ballet.  In 2010, Sheldon was the first recipient of the American Prize for Orchestral Conducting.  Other prestigious awards he has received have included the Stokowski and Rupert conducting competitions and in 1996, he received the Bill Graham Memorial Award for Distinguished Service in the Arts in recognition of his dedication to education and outreach as music director of the Marin Symphony in California.  Sheldon’s own ballet compositions – Cole, based on the music of Cole Porter, and Butterfly, based on the music of Puccini – commissions by BalletMet, have been widely performed.

You must show NSU ID for entry plus one guest.

Posted 04/18/22

Stage 2 Productions Presents ‘The Dolls of New Albion”

Join us for a Steampunk Opera tale of the McAlistair family, hosted by Stage 2 Productions and the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences.Tickets will be available on the evening of the event on a first-come, first-serve basis.

  • Date & Time: April 15, 2022, at 7:30 p.m. & April 16, 2022 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
  • Location: Black Box Theatre.

For more information, contact gelbmann@nova.edu

Learn more about upcoming events here.

Posted 04/10/22

Humanities Hosts Crossroads Student Humanities Conference

On Saturday, March 26, 2022, the NSU Center for the Humanities hosted the 4th annual Crossroads Student Humanities Conference.  Housed in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences the Center for the Humanities showcases undergraduate and graduate student research in the humanities through this conference.  This year’s Crossroads theme, “Rebirth, Renewal, Reboot,” explored how the humanities helps navigate trauma, tragedy, and loss.  Paper topics ranged from the cultural renewal of Germany after World War II to Civil War poetry reflecting mass death trauma.  Research was presented by students from NSU, University of Miami, University of Central Florida, and University of Florida. The conference also offered panels on humanities-based skillsets in the workplace and digital humanities strategies for textual analysis.

The conference’s opening plenary speaker was Janet Roseman, Ph.D., from NSU’s Kirin C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine; Roseman’s talk, which derived from her recent book, “If Joan of Arc Had Cancer,” focused on applications of historical inspiration for female patient therapy.  The event’s keynote speaker, made possible by the Stolzenberg-Doan fund in the Department of Humanities and Politics, was internationally acclaimed author, scholar, and activist Azar Nafisi, who shared a powerful message regarding the role of literature in times of social and political repression.   See a video of Nafisi’s talk and a photo gallery of the event.

The NSU Center for the Humanities champions core academic disciplines in the humanities, such as history, literature and languages, philosophy, religion, politics, and film, particularly the way in which these disciplines may be applied to engage and promote positive action involving local and global human issues and concerns.  The Center aims to demonstrate the relevance of the humanities as a complement to the core STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and math) and the social sciences, with a view toward encouraging students and scholars in those disciplines to explore these connections.

Posted 04/10/22

Honors College Hosts Annual Murder Mystery Dinner

Filled with intrigue and plot twists at every turn, the Farquhar Honors College hosted its annual murder mystery dinner on Thursday, Feb. 10. In the same spirit as golden age detective novels, the murder mystery dinner allowed Honors students and faculty to put on their detective hats to unravel the elusive mystery set before them in an interactive, role-playing murder mystery plot.

The Honors Advocates, a select group of Honors students dedicated to supporting the college and its programs and events, planned and facilitated the event as performing cast members in full costume. Following the theme of high school sweethearts hosting a high school reunion at an Italian bistro, a full-course Italian dinner was served to attendees as they worked in groups to figure out the motive and identity of the murderer among them.

The night was filled with laughter as students and faculty alike were able to enjoy the resumption of such in-person events and engage with a mystery that was shocking to everyone, including the murderer herself. Prizes were awarded to those who successfully cracked the case.

“I enjoyed the entire event,” said Marie Wells, academic program coordinator in the Farquhar Honors College. “I enjoyed how the audience members cooperated with each other and interacted with the performance cast members to solve the murder mystery. [It was] engaging and hilarious!”

“The murder mystery event was a lot of fun and allowed me to engage with Honors students, and the Honors faculty as a bonus, like never before!” said freshman chemistry major Pranav Madadi. “My favorite part of the event was the final envelope and figuring out who did it and all the details. Also, winning 1st place made the event even better! I have been able to connect with more Honors students and feel like I am part of a community where I can be more engaged on campus and be a better shark.”

Posted 03/25/22

Second Annual Fins Festival Will Be Held April 1

The Undergraduate Student Government Association is inviting you to the second annual, student ran/ student-led, Campus Wide Carnival called Fins Festival. Fins Festival is on Friday, April 1, 2022, from 4-10 p.m. at the Temporary Residential Parking Lot (across from NSU Aquatic Competition Pool).

This event is a celebration for everyone at NSU and we invite you to come enjoy free food, games and rides! Admission to the event is FREE of charge.

Please remember to bring your SharkCard and share this event information with fellow classmates, students, staff and friends.

For more information, please contact usga@nova.edu and follow @nsuundergradsga on Instagram.

Posted 03/25/22

Join Conversation With Best-Selling Author Korelitz

Join us online or in person for a conversation with Jean Hanff Korelitz, the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Plot, You Should Have Known (adapted for HBO as “The Undoing” by David E. Kelley and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant). “Pen to Purpose; Cultivating Writing as a Brand of Professionalism” with Jean Hanff Korelitz will be Tuesday, March 29, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what’s left of his self-respect; he hasn’t written–let alone published–anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn’t need Jake’s help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears The Plot.

Register at lib.nova.edu/purpose

Sponsored by the Circle of Friends for the NSU Alvin Sherman Library.

Posted 03/13/22

Symposium Explores Legal Reponses to COVID-related Trauma

On Friday, March 11, at 9 a.m., NSU will hold a symposium address the legal and systemic responses to psychological trauma associated with COVID-19.

Since January 2020, COVID-19 has ravaged the United States’ population physically, economically, and psychologically.  Caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (“COVID-19”), the pandemic simultaneously decimated the population, shuttered businesses, and traumatized those experiencing its effects.  In early 2021, just as the country believed that it had survived the worst of the pandemic, the Delta variant appeared, causing a surge of cases worse than the first.

Consequently, increased prevalence of mental, neurological, and substance use disorders already has and will continue to present the legal system with challenges of previously unknown proportions.  As mental health professionals substantiate and address the negative impacts of uncertainty, fear, isolation, and economic hardship, legal issues are multiplying. This symposium will explore a range of those legal issues and is intended to foster study and discussion of mental health and ways the legal system can improve it.

For more information on speakers and event program, click here.

Posted 03/03/22

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