Category: Research

Halmos Faculty Examines Latin Music at Virtual Event Oct. 2

Jessica Muñiz-Collado, M.F.A., faculty in the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts, in the Halmos College of Art and Sciences and the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center (HCAS), will be the featured virtual presenter on Saturday, October 2, 2021, from 2 to 3 p.m. for the Broward County Library. Muñiz-Collado’ s presentation, “Same Yet Different,” will explore the similarities and differences in Latin Music.

Jessica Muñiz-Collado

Muñiz-Collado has performed and recorded with numerous musicians and artists including Grammy-nominated saxophonist Steve Elson, jazz vibraphonist Arthur Lipner, Cookie “Conga” Lopez, Anders Astrand, Jean Geoffroy, Ney Rosauro, and trumpet all-star John Walsh. She has also performed throughout North and South America, toured with the FROST Percussion Sextet in Japan, and was a guest lecturer and performer at the international music conference LeRock & L’Amour held at the Universite Paul-Valery in Montpellier, France.

At NSU, she has taught courses in composition, music production, and percussion. In addition, she directed the Mako Band, NSU Pep Band, and managed NSU Mako Records.

Learn to Disseminate Scholarly Contributions, Oct. 19, 21

An upcoming two-day workshop will help faculty curate their scholarly content for global dissemination.

NSUWorks, NSU’s institutional repository, and SelectedWorks, the online professional profile system, work together to curate content for the Digital Commons network of repositories for dissemination of your scholarly output to the world at large. Digital Measures is NSU’s internal review and tracking system for faculty to keep track of their professional activities.

Part one of the series will discuss how these three systems work at NSU, explain your college process for adding your scholarly contributions into these systems, and provide think-tank opportunities for the creation of new scholarly work for yourself and your students.  Part two will be a hands-on workshop experience to show you how to manage your SelectedWorks profile effectively on your own.

Part one will be held on October 19 from noon to 1 p.m. and part two on October 21 from noon to 1 p.m.

Register now!

NSU Network Chat on Collaboration, October 22

Dean Holly Baumgartner

NSU Network Chats will present “Forming Interdisciplinary Collaborations at NSU,” featuring Holly Baumgartner, dean of the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences. The event, sponsored by Translational Research and Economic Development, will be held Friday, October 22, from noon to 12:45 p.m. via Zoom.

Free Workshop Will Help Budding Authors Hone Skills, Oct. 9

Join us for a free online workshop with Janice Hardy as she presents Bringing Your Novel to Life, designed to help novice and seasoned authors hone their writing skills.

Great novels blend skilled writing with compelling storytelling, using a multitude of techniques to draw readers in and make them love the book. These techniques work together to build immersive story worlds, creating characters readers love, settings they want to live in, and stories they can’t put down. In this workshop, writers will learn techniques to bring a novel to life for readers. Use point of view to show, not tell, and draw readers in without infodumping; find the best ways to describe the setting and build a world; tap into the emotions of the characters and use those emotions to drive the plot and deepen the story; and how all these techniques work together to build a novel.

JANICE HARDY is the award-winning author and founder of Fiction University, where she helps writers improve their craft and navigate the crazy world of publishing. She teaches writing workshops across the country, and her blog has been recognized as a Top Writing Blog by Writer’s Digest. When she’s not writing about writing, she spins tales of adventure for both teens and adults, and firmly believes that doing terrible things to her characters makes them more interesting. She loves talking with writers and readers, and encourages questions of all types—even the weird ones. Find out more about her and her books at http://blog.janicehardy.com/

This workshop is on Zoom and registration is required.

The video is available for on-demand viewing October 10 – October 31.

Sponsored by the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation

Lifelong Learning Institute Fall Welcome Week Oct. 4-7

Join the Nova Southeastern University Lifelong Learning Institute (LLI) for Fall Welcome Week at the LLI, October 4-7, on Zoom for a live, interactive, social-learning environment.

There will be daily lectures from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 to 2 p.m. Registration is required. To register, email lli@nova.edu (subject line: LLI Fall Welcome Week).

The Lifelong Learning Institute provides a vibrant educational environment for mature adults in South Florida. Programs promote intellectual stimulation, physical well-being, and social growth that enriches the lives of its members and the community.

Get more details on the lectures and speaker bios!

Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Workshop Sept. 30

Jonathan Smith

This virtual workshop, hosted by The Qualitative Report and delivered by Jonathan Smith from Birkbeck University of London UK, will provide a practical introduction to the experiential, qualitative approach-interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA).

The aim is that, by the end of the class, attendees will recognize the important principles of the approach and understand the main practical steps involved in a research project using IPA. The workshop will begin with a short example of a study conducted by Jonathan.

The best way to get to grips with the value of an approach is to see what it can produce. This will be followed by a brief presentation of the theoretical underpinnings of IPA. Most of the workshop will focus on Smith guiding participants through the stages of conducting an IPA study: design, data collection, analysis, writing up.

The workshops will take place via the Zoom platform.

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