NSU Hosts Quality of Life (QOL) Awards Ceremony and President’s Faculty Research and Development Grant (PFRDG)

The 17th Annual Quality of Life Award Ceremony and 20th Annual President’s Faculty Research and Development Grant (PFRDG) was held on May 7th in the Don Taft University Center on NSU’s Fort Lauderdale/ Davie campus.

NSU President George L. Hanbury II, Ph.D., and Gary Margules, Sc.D., vice president of the Office of Research and Technology Transfer, recognized 29 research projects that received PFRDG awards up to $15,000 each for fiscal year 2020. The 29 PFRDG awards represent 12 academic units involving 74 faculty and 56 students for a total of $346,476.  Overall a total of 40 PFRDG proposals was submitted.

Five Quality of Life Community-Based Applied Research Grant awards of up to $15,000 were awarded for fiscal year 2020.  Nicholas Pascucci, QOL Director presented the awards.

The President thanked faculty members, researchers, as well as Palm Beach, Broward and Dade County Community Partners, who represented the Quality of Life project submissions, including the Outstanding Community Partner of the Year – Broward Sheriff’s Office Department of Fire Rescue and Emergency Services – which was accepted by Assistant Chief Terrence Davis, Major Munib Ahmed, Assistant Chief Todd Leduc, Chief of Staff Chantelle Read, Sheriff Gregory Tony.

 

PFRDG: Saad Alobid, B.S.,Priya Dondapati, M.S., Arkene Levy, Ph.D., Dean Harold E. Laubach, Ph.D., College of Medical Sciences, Interim Dean Michelle A. Clark, Ph.D., College of Pharmacy, University Provost and Executive VP for Academic Affairs, Ralph Rogers, Ph.D., Appu Rathinavelu, Ph.D., Thiagarajan Venkatesan, Ph.D., Theodore L. Mathuram, Ph.D., Paramjot Kaur, M.D.