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NSU Dance Presents Workshop with Dancer Jon Lehrer, Sept.26

Jon Lehrer

The NSU Dance program in the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts presents a workshop with dancer and choreographer Jon Lehrer. Lehrer will lead an intermediate/advanced movement workshop open to the NSU and local community.

Lehrer, artistic director of the Jon Lehrer Dance Company, has danced with the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Paul Sanasardo, John Passafiume Dancers, in Merv Griffin’s “Funderful” in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and in The Radio City Rockettes “Christmas Spectacular.” He also served as the resident choreographer for Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, the world’s preeminent jazz dance company.

  • Date: Monday, Sept. 26, 2022
  • Time: 3 – 4:50 p.m.
  • Location: Performance Theater, Don Taft University Center
  • Free event and open to the community.
  • Dance experience required.

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

Posted 09/25/22 

Welcome Week for Lifelong Learning Institute is Oct. 10-13

Nova Southeastern University’s Lifelong Learning Institute (LLI) is a member-supported organization designed to provide a vibrant educational and social environment for older adults in South Florida. The LLI was founded in 1977 to complete Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) mission of education spanning a whole lifetime. Programs offered to LLI members include educational lectures on topics as diverse as history, literature, politics, art, music, and science, and social activities such as field trips and special events throughout South Florida.  LLI members can also take advantage of opportunities to audit some classes at NSU for pleasure and enrichment.  These learning experiences are taught by outstanding faculty and experts and offer members a college-level education while sitting side-by-side with NSU students – all without taking exams!

Becoming a member of NSU’s LLI is easy.  Join us in person or virtually during the FREE LLI ‘Welcome Week’ lecture series (October 10 through October 13) where you will have the opportunity to learn more about our growing, diverse learning community, listen to guest speakers, and meet new friends. All adults with a passion for learning and social growth are welcome.

Posted 09/22/22

Learn About Aftermath of Champlain Towers Collapse, Sept. 28

The Farquhar Honors College and the Alvin Sherman Library present “The Open Classroom: Social Vulnerability and Safe Building Recertification Violations in Miami, Florida.”

Join us for an open discussion on the aftermath of the Champlain Towers South Collapse in Surfside and the importance of public health and administration when discussing safe structures, social vulnerability, and equity.

  • When: Wednesday, Sept. 28 at 5 pm
  • Where: Cotilla Gallery, Alvin Sherman Library, 2nd floor
  • Free and open to the public
  • Register here

The Open Classroom series features conversations with scholars from various disciplines who share their expertise on important issues and provide insightful perspectives rarely seen in the media.

Posted 09/22/22

Virtual Lecture: ‘Growing Together: Teaching Literacy as a Community,’ Sept. 22

The Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences presents the virtual lecture “Growing Together: Teaching Literacy as a Community” with Associate Professor of Writing Kelly Concanon, Ph.D., and M.A. in Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media student Autumn Bishard.

  • Date: Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022
  • Time: 6 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom
  • Free event
  • Register here.

For more information, contact Kelly Concannon at km1319@nova.edu

Posted 09/17/22

Veteran Stand Down Event Comes to NSU Campus Sept. 24

The United Way of Broward County’s MISSION UNITED is bringing this year’s Broward County Veteran Stand Down event to Nova Southeastern University. The event is dedicated to connecting with government and nonprofit agencies to provide free services to military veterans. NSU’s Veterans access clinic will be among the contributors, offering free dental services to eligible veterans.

Among the other services that will be offered are employment opportunities, mental health screenings, dental services, legal services, and driver’s license reinstatement. Veteran Stand Down will be held Saturday, Sept. 24 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at NSU’s Carl DeSantis Building, 3300 S. University Drive, Davie, Fla.

NSU MD 5K Dash For Diversity Set for Sept. 24

The 3rd NSU MD 5K Dash for Diversity will be taking place in person on Saturday, September 24th, 2022.

Meet us at the NSU Gold Circle Lake at 7:30 a.m. (3300 S. University Drive, Fort-Lauderdale-Davie, Florida 33314) to Dash for Diversity. Everyone is welcome to participate!!!!!

Awards will be given to the top three female, male, and non-binary finishers in the student and non-student categories. Amazon gift cards will be awarded in the amount of $100 for first place, $50 for second place, and $30 for third place. Refreshments will be provided.

Register today!

Posted 9/07/22

Halmos to Host Sustainable Development Goals Launch Sept. 23

The Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center (HCAS) is pleased to host the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Launch on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The event is open to all NSU students.

The SDG Launch is an educational program with skills development training designed in collaboration with the Foundation for Environmental Stewardship (FES) on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to teach how students can take action to support community initiatives for sustainable development.

Registration is free and is required. Seats are limited. Register today!

If you have any questions, contact Elena Bastidas, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies in HCAS at bastidas@nova.edu

Posted 08/26/22

Health Care Sciences Offers Special Zoom Sessions

The Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences’ Departments of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology will be holding Fall 2022 online Zoom sessions on “Hearing Loss Strategies for Success.”

DATE: September 15 to October 27

TIME: Thursdays, 2:15 – 3:30 p.m.

Each meetings include short informational sessions, strategies on dealing with hearing loss, improving communication skills and speechreading tips. You may participate in one or more sessions.

To register and learn more about the Group AR – “Hearing Loss Strategies for Success”, please visit the Fall 2022 registration form site.

Feel free to bring your communication partner or a guest.

For more information, please contact Nannette Nicholson, Ph.D., at nnichols@nova.edu or call (954) 262-7739.

Posted 08/28/31

Halmos Faculty Member Chairs Marine Mammal Conference, Aug. 1-5

Amy Hirons, Ph.D.

Amy Hirons, Ph.D., a professor at Nova Southeastern University, is the chair for the upcoming Society for Marine Mammalogy’s 24th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. The conference will be held Aug. 1-5 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach.

More than 1,800 participants from 75 countries will be attending the society’s first hybrid conference, which will be in person and streaming virtual. Scientific knowledge will be shared related to marine mammal conservation and environmental change.

Hirons is an oceanographer and professor in the Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, which is one of the sponsors for the conference. Halmos College collaborators for the event include Dimitrios Giarikos, Chemistry; and David Kerstetter, Marine and Environmental Sciences.

Among the speakers will be world renowned marine scientist Sylvia Earle.

Posted 07/27/22

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