Category: Communities

The NSU Center for the Humanities will be hosting the 2020 Humanities Student Conference, “CROSSROADS” on Saturday, March 28, 2020. The conference builds on the concept of South Florida being the crossroads of the Transatlantic world and asks students to develop presentations that explore the convergence of cultures, values, and ideas evident in various humanities disciplines. Students from all academic institutions and at any level (high school, undergraduate, and graduate) are encouraged to participate. Please send inquiries to Dr. Andrea Shaw Nevins andrshaw@nova.edu or visit the NSU Center for the Humanities for further information: https://cahss.nova.edu/humanities/conference.html

The Department of Performing and Visual Arts (DPVA) in NSU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS), will once again host Dance Awareness Day and invites you to participate! Dance Awareness Day will offer free dance classes with NSU Dance faculty for the community. The event will also feature guest artists and NSU dance majors.

Classes will be offered on Wednesday, October 16, 2019, from 8:30am-2:00pm, in a variety of styles including Modern and Dance Improvisation, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Indo-Caribbean, Tap, and more!

Dance Awareness Day takes place in the Performing and Visual Arts wing in the Don Taft University Center. This is a free event, but space is limited. Registration is from 8:30-9:00 am on the 1^st floor of the Performing and Visual Arts Wing on a first come, first served basis.

For more information, please contact Elana Lanczi, M.F.A., faculty in the DPVA at lanczi@nova.edu

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale will present Happy!, a new exhibition of contemporary works produced by artists who aim to engage the viewer emotionally. As in life, sorrow and happiness are intertwined in their works. Happy! is organized by NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale and is curated by Bonnie Clearwater, the Museum’s director and chief curator, who states, “Many of these artists acknowledge that making art is an essential means for them to work out their own trauma and frustrations, and they suggest that art can provide viewers with a sense of well-being that will help them cope with life’s challenges.”

The exhibition will be on view at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale from October 27, 2019 – July 5, 2020.  Click here to read more.

Art TALK: FRIENDSWITHYOU

Sunday, October 27, 2 PM

Continue celebrating the opening of Happy! at this talk by FriendsWithYou, the fine art collaborative comprised of

LA-based artists Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III, whose whimsical and immersive installations draw audiences into a magical world where the line between imagination and reality is blurred and whose recent projects include the playful stage characters on the set of Reggaeton superstar JBalvin’s recent tour and floats for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Free with Museum admission. RSVP required.

Free First Thursdays Starry Nights, presented by AutoNation

Thursday, October 3

4 – 8 PM

Free admission

Enjoy NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale’s exhibitions, 2-for-1 drinks in the Museum Café and hands-on art project for all ages.

Bank of America Museums on Us

Saturday, October 5, 11a-5pm AND Sunday, October 6, Noon-5pm
Bank of America cardholders receive Free admission to the Museum.

Creativity Exploration: Knots and Knowledge  

Saturday, October 12, 2019

Noon -1:30 PM

$10 for members; $15 for non-members

Inspired by the sculpture of El-Salahi’s Meditation Tree, participants will create a personal tree sculpture embedding it with imagery of their life journey.

Creativity Exploration workshops promote the benefits of creative exploration and the mind to-body experience. In addition to producing a sense of well-being, sessions expand participants’ perceptions of forms, while increasing brain connectivity through visual and cognitive stimulation. The workshop is led by educator Lark Keeler, a specialist in mindfulness education.

Creativity Exploration is sponsored by the Charles P. Ferro Foundation.

Limited space. Advance reservations required. $10 museum members; $15 non-members.

Second Sunday Film Series: My Hero Brother

Sunday, October 13

1:30 PM Exhibition Tour / 2:30 PM Film Screening

Film: $9 for Museum members and John Knox Village residents; $11 non-members.

Film and exhibition tour:  Free for members and John Knox Village residents; $22 non-members

Join NSU Art Museum and David Posnack JCC for a Sunday afternoon of art and film.  My Hero Brother tells the remarkable and inspiring story of a group of young people with Down Syndrome who embark on a demanding trek through the Himalayas accompanied by their brothers and sisters.

Director- Johnathan Nir / Hebrew / English subtitles/ 78 Minutes

Fort Lauderdale Neighbor Day

Sunday, October 27

All Fort Lauderdale residents receive free admission to the Museum. For more information visit www.nsuartmuseum.org.

Protecting the privacy of students’ educational records is not only an ethical obligation but also a legal requirement for all NSU employees.

Did you know…

• students can file complaints with the Department of Education,
• NSU can lose federal funding, and
• students can file lawsuits against the university and the person responsible can be held liable for a violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)?

If you are an NSU faculty member or an employee who deals with student records, brush up on your FERPA knowledge by attending a one-and-a-half-hour training session facilitated by the University Registrar on October 7, 2019.

Register for a Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus Session

18th Annual

NSU Libraries Faculty Reception

Thursday, October 3, 2019 | 4:00 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.

Second Floor, Cotilla Gallery | Alvin Sherman Library

 

The President’s Distinguished Professor Award of Excellence and the Professor of the Year Award recipients will be recognized. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres, door prize drawings, and beautiful artwork from The Artist’s Vision of France and Argentina, curated by Adriana Bianco.

Hosted by: George L. Hanbury II President and Chief Executive Officer
Ronald J. Chenail, Ph.D. Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Jim Hutchens Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian and NSU Libraries Staff Members.

RSVP to lib.nova.edu/rsvp by Monday, September 30. Email Lilly Valiente at lv297@nova.edu for more information.

Special thanks to Barnes & Noble for its generous support.

 

On Friday, September 20, Halmos faculty member Fuzhen Zhang, Ph.D. will present a seminar entitled, “Eigenvalue Inequalities of Matrix Product”. A joint work with Dr. Bo-Yan Xi, this talk will discuss how Given two n-by-n complex matrices, one is Hermitian and one is positive semidefinite, all of the n eigenvalues (counting multiplicities) of the product of the given matrices are necessarily real. Selecting any k of the n eigenvalues, we present lower and upper bounds for the sum of these k selected eigenvalues. Our results extend and complement the existing ones.

Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography department of mathematics hosts the mathematics colloquium series in Parker Building, Room 301. 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).

The excitement of Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 – October 15) is underway at NSU! You’re invited to celebrate the unique experiences of Hispanic cultures through a series of planned events and activities. Events include the Cine Argentino Film Festival, the Art Expression of France and Argentina exhibit, musical performance from Paco Moreno and Friends, dance lessons from the Latin American Student Association, guest speakers, and more.

For additional information visit nova.edu/hispanicheritage

 

 

You’re invited to the third annual FUTURES Summit on Tuesday, November 12 from 6:00 – 8:30 p.m. at NSU’s Don Taft University Center.

The Summit is one of the largest health care networking events in the state, encompassing all aspects of the professions of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and the business of health care. This event gives health care companies an opportunity to connect, and offers candidates, alumni and the community a glimpse of what the health care system has to offer. This is not another career showcase. Every major health system will be in attendance. We encourage you to RSVP now!

Click here to see video from last year event.