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Tony Gaskew, Ph.D., graduate of the doctoral program in Conflict Analysis and Resolution in the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies (DCRS) in NSU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS), has co-authored an article with Salathiel Thompson entitled, The United States of America vs. The United States of America: Dissecting Systems of Oppression and White Supremacy. It was published in Dialogues in Social Justice: An Adult Education Journal, University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Gaskew is professor of Criminal Justice and Director, Criminal Justice Program at University of Pittsburg Bradford. He spent over 20 years in law enforcement. In 2016, he was one of ten US educators invited to the White House to participate in a Roundtable on Criminal Justice Reform.

Gaskew has published extensively in the areas of criminal justice, and policing. His book, Rethinking Prison Reentry: Transforming Humiliation into Humility, focuses on the role of the criminal justice system in providing adequate post-secondary prison education opportunities for incarcerated black males and the impact of historical racism on black males and on the criminal justice system.

Gaskew was a recipient of the 2014 NSU Distinguished Alumni Award.  His honors include the Fulbright-Hays Fellow for a research project in Egypt and the Academic Fellow in Terrorist Studies in Israel by The Foundation for Defense of Democracies.  He was named a University of Pittsburgh Faculty Diversity Fellow and Teacher of the Year by The National Society of Leadership and Success. He is the founding director of the nationally recognized UPB Prison Education Program. Gaskew received the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (DHS) Beacon of Dignity Award at Columbia University in 2015 for his outstanding dedication to equality and human rights. He is the book series editor of Critical Perspectives on Race, Crime, and Justice.

To access Gaskew’s article, please see https://journals.uncc.edu/dsj/article/view/890

 

 

 

Jessica Muñiz-Collado, M.F.A., faculty in the Department of Performing and Visual Arts (DPVA) in NSU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS), was selected to be a Music Technology/Beat-making judge for the 2020 Hit Like a Girl + Beats by Girlz International Contest. The HLAG +BBG was created to spotlight female beat makers/producers from all around the world and encourage females to engage in music technology. The contest is sponsored and endorsed by renowned music companies including Ableton, ROLI, Native Instruments, Melodics, Novation and Presonus.

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

Marina Stonewall, M.S., PMP, a 2006 graduate of the master’s program in Conflict Analysis and Resolution in NSU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS), is Guest Services Manager for Spirit Airlines at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. The Guest Services Manager supervises, monitors, and directs station personnel. Prior to her current position, Stonewall was Luggage Resolution Manager for Spirit Airlines in Miramar.

Of her education at NSU, Stonewall indicated: “I am using my degree as a an employee of Spirit Airlines as a skill set to coach my team in managing conflict situations between team members or between team members and the general public working.   I started as the Manager of Luggage Resolution in Miramar, FL before moving to Maryland for the Guest Services Manager role at BWI airport; the skills can be used universally across various business sectors. As an example, since graduation I have worked as a federal contractor at the Pentagon, for a non-profit, and now an airline.  I am also a business owner, M Power Fitness, LLC, which allows me the opportunity to use negotiation skills when speaking with potential clients.  The ability to use the resources I have learned as a student at NSU towards the things I love – travel and fitness – has been the best part of recognizing what I wanted to be when I grew up.”

In addition to her degree from NSU, Stonewall earned a B.S. in Political Science from the University of Montevallo, and PMP (Project Management Professional) from the Project Management Institute.

This summer, Halmos college faculty member, Santanu De, Ph.D. represented NSU at the 2020 Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS) Virtual Annual Conference. Organized by Pearson Education, a Zoom meeting at this conference consisted of Anatomy and Physiology (A&P) faculty from across the US. The topic of discussion was “Teaching A&P Online: time-saving strategies for effective instruction”.

The mission of HAPS is to promote excellence in the teaching of anatomy and physiology. HAPS is open to anyone interested in Anatomy & Physiology Education, and currently includes over 1,700 members from high schools, two- and four-year colleges, universities, and private businesses in the United States, Canada and throughout the rest of the world.

The annual HAPS national conference, regional conferences, the HAPS Educator and HAPS Institute courses provide members with an important means of updating their knowledge, improving technical/pedagogical skills, investigating new technologies for the laboratory/classroom, as well as networking with a growing international contingent of peers.

 

NSU associate professors Louis Nemzer, PhD of The Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography and Florence Neymotin, PhD of The H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship teamed up to study concierge doctors using machine learning. Concierge care in the United States represents an important part of the rapidly increasing “Velvet Rope Economy,” in which premium service is available for the privileged few prepared to pay a hefty price. Similar to the system of first class on airplanes or box suites at a football game, instead of a regular practice, these physicians charge large annual retainers. In return, patients can get priority attention with less time spent in waiting rooms. The use of machine learning methods in Economics is becoming increasingly popular, especially in the field of health care, which has huge amounts of data waiting to be analyzed. For this project, the faculty members scraped thousands of patients reviews from the website healthgrades.com and performed a machine learning sematic analysis to determine which words were most associated with concierge doctors in California and Florida, as compared with conventional family or internal medicine physicians. They found that technical words, like “staff,” and “diagnosis” are more likely to be on the minds of consumers of concierge care, who are paying for rapid access. In contrast, patients of conventional doctors mentioned “concerns” and “listen”, which show a greater concern for bedside manner. The work is published in Health Economics, which is classified as a first-tier journal by the Harzing Journal Quality List. Future work may include extending these semantic analysis methods to other online feedback sites.