Tag: Alvin Sherman Library

NSU to Screen Award-Winning Original Documentary Film

NSU will screen the award-winning documentary “State of Rodeo” on Jan. 31 at the Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center. The film showing will start at 7 p.m. and will be followed by a panel discussion.

“State of Rodeo” is an hourlong television documentary focusing on the rich tradition of Rodeo and Ranching in the State that started it all. Rodeos began as celebrations of Cowboy life within rural farming communities, whereby local Cowboys and Cowgirls could gather with friends and family to highlight the unique skills learned on the farm. 2021 marks five hundred years of cattle and horse farming within the State of Florida when Ponce De Leon brought the first herds from Spain to the new world and the territory of La Florida.

This is a history that presents a rich multicultural fabric of cultures and influences that ultimately blends into a tapestry of American pride. Rodeo comes from the Spanish rodear meaning to go around and that is where this story begins, over and through the various backwaters and by ways where the sport is still thriving, from Ocala to Okeechobee to Davie. It is a special bond that connects one and all to the Rodeo family.

“State of Rodeo” is produced by the Emmy-winning production team of Scott Barnett and Johanna Vega, who have combined their talents to produce hundreds of broadcast commercials, documentaries and digital content including the nationally syndicated, award winning TV show Kid Stew produced with South Florida PBS and bestselling author James Patterson. Their company Fuxion has also produced advertising content for clients including Winn Dixie, the Pork Board, Take Me Fishing and VISITFLORIDA.

Posted 01/14/24

NSU Hosts 9th Annual Power Publishing Day on Jan. 25

Do you want to share your scholarly research with the world? Have you written a story that you want everyone to read?

Come join us on Thursday, Jan.25, for a day of learning about academic and non-academic publishing from publishers, editors, agents, other authors, and NSU faculty and staff. You will not want to miss this opportunity to meet editors and reps from publishing houses including Elsevier, Emerald, IGI, Clarivate, IEEE, SAGE, Cambridge University Press and more.

You can attend in person or online. Complimentary breakfast and lunch will be served to In-Person attendees.

Registration information for this free event can be found at
https://lib.nova.edu/ppd24

9-9:45 a.m.

  • Welcome & Keynote – The Scary World of Publishing and What We Can Do About It?

10:15-11 a.m.

  • NSU – The Scholarly Communications Landscape At Nova Southeastern University
  • CLARIVATE– Analyze and Visualize the Impact of your Research
  • IEEE- Key Points to Getting Published: Behind the Scenes with IEEE
  • ASK THE AUTHORS

11:15 a.m. – Noon

  • CAMBRIDGE- The Changing Landscape of Academic Publishing: Open Access and Cambridge University Press
  • EMERALD- Driving Real-World Change through Research and Publishing
  • Success by Association: Creating, Connecting, Promoting, & Publishing with the South Florida Writers Association

1:15-2 p.m.

  • NSU & ELSEVIER– Panel Perspectives: Academic Publishing Insights with Nova Southeastern Faculty and Elsevier
  • CLOUDSOURCE– Leverage the Power of Open Access with CloudSource OA and Course Lists—Now Available at NSU
  • IGI – Navigating the AI Era of Research: Ethical AI-Usage in Academic Publishing
  • LYRASIS– Indie Publishing at Your Library: Introducing Pressbooks Public and the Indie Author Project

2:15-3 p.m.

  • HCBE & Sage -Writing & Publishing Business Case Studies
  • NSU- How to Publish Your Thesis or Dissertation
  • EMERALD- Driving Real-World Change through Research and Publishing
  • Creating a Polished Submission Packet for Querying Fiction Authors

3:30-4:15 p.m.

  • ELSEVIER- Where to publish? Choosing the right journal for your article
  • SAGE- How to Write and Structure a Manuscript for an Academic Peer-Reviewed Journal
  • IGI – Navigating the AI Era of Research: Ethical AI-Usage in Academic Publishing
  • Literary Hustle: How to Promote and Champion Your Book

Posted 01/04/24

Teachers of Tomorrow Conference Planned for Jan. 13

The NSU Teachers of Tomorrow Conference – presented in collaboration with the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice, the Fischler Academy Pre-Professional Committee, the BEDI Advisory Council, the Alan B. Levan Center for Innovation, and the Alvin Sherman Library – will be held Saturday, Jan. 13, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Alan B. Levan Center.

The conference is designed to empower future and current educators to learn about equity in technology and education and is open to future educators, school leaders, faculty of higher education, entrepreneurs, professionals in the education sector, and the NSU community.

Top tier speakers including Tanya Avrith, Monica Burns, Holly Clark, Greg Griffith, Joan McGettigan, Ken Shelton, Victoria Thompson, and Jen Williams will lead discussions and workshops on how to harness the power of technology in the classroom. They will talk about artificial intelligence (AI) and other exciting new tech solutions designed to enhance the teaching experience equitably. There will also be special workshops on various topics including Microsoft Certification 1, UN Sustainable Development Goals, Techequity: DEIJ in Education, AI and Education, Book Creator and AI, Infusing Tech in ESE, UDL, and AI in your Classroom.

Participation is free and registration is now open! To view the conference schedule and library guide created for this event, please click here. To register for the conference, please click here.

Posted 01/03/24

Explore How We Can Create a Fairer World on Jan. 16

The Farquhar Honors College and the Alvin Sherman Library present “The Open Classroom: Making our Workplaces (and our World) Fairer: Tools for Overcoming Bias.”

Join us for an open discussion on overcoming our implicit biases and using evidence-based methods to make our world fairer.

  • When: Tuesday, Jan. 16 at 12:30 pm
  • Where: Cotilla Gallery, Alvin Sherman Library, 2nd floor
  • Free and open to the public
  • Register here

Rita Shea-Van Fossen, Ph.D., associate professor with the H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship, will be the guest speaker at the event.

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 01/02/24

Education Professor Publishing New Edition of Textbook

Simonson

Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice Professor Michael Simonson, Ph.D., is publishing a new edition of the textbook “Teaching and Learning at a Distance: Foundations of Distance Education.

This will be the eighth edition of the book. Simonson published the first version of the textbook after recognizing there was a future for distance learning back in 1999. When he tried searching for a textbook that could be used at the university level, he came up empty-handed, so he decided to write one himself.

“I put together a team of three in addition to myself and we collaboratively wrote the first edition of Teaching and Learning at a Distance: Foundations of Distance Education,” Simonson said.

Simonson said the book is a best seller in the field.

“It has been in existence in one edition or another for [over 20] years … It’s a book that will give people the background they need, an understanding of what distance education is, what the research and theories are, and then practical information so they can be effective educators at a distance.”

This latest edition of the book focuses on applied research while balancing the theories of teaching and learning that relate to using technology to reach students at a distance.

Simonson said he worked with the Alvin Sherman Library here at NSU to get the edition ready for publishing.

“I had a reference librarian who helped with the references, helped me make sure my citations were done correctly, and she was right there virtually by my side,” he said. “Her name is Melissa Johnson and she was excellent in helping me.”

The book is set to be released next year.

Congratulations on all your heard work Professor Simonson!

Posted 11/26/23

Celebrate Native American Heritage Thursday, Nov. 30

Native American Heritage Month is a yearly commemoration from November 1-30 that aims to provide a platform for Native people in the United States of America to share their culture, traditions, music, crafts, dance, and ways and concepts of life. Native American Heritage Day, November 24, is recognized as a civil holiday observed on the day after Thanksgiving in the United States.
We invite our NSU Community, including faculty, staff, alumni, students, and the public to join us on Thursday, Nov. 30. We are honored to have Van Samuels, Museum Educator, Seminole Tribe of Florida, and Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum, as our guest speaker.  We will have a rich discussion on the aspects of Seminole history, traditions, heritage, culture, and way of life.
This will be an event with breakfast and networking starting at 9:30 a.m.  For those registering for this in-person event at the Cotilla Gallery at the Alvin Sherman Library, please register here.
For those joining us online register here – the program begins at 10 a.m.
To learn more about Native American Nations and Communities in South Florida, check out https://libguides.nova.edu/nahm

Posted 11/09/23

‘A Day for Children’ Builds Community on Campus

Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital’s annual health literacy event, “A Day for Children,” was hosted by Nova Southeastern University’s Alvin Sherman Library on Saturday, Oct. 21, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the university’s Davie Campus.

For more than two decades, “A Day for Children” has been a beacon of knowledge, providing essential medical information to more than 100,000 residents, empowering them to make informed health decisions for their children and families.

“A Day for Children” was an opportunity for local families to access free and low-cost health and wellness services for children aged from birth to 16 years. NSU Health students and faculty were on hand to offer comprehensive health care education and activities, covering vision, medical, speech, behavior, and dental health, as well as physical and occupational therapy.

Among the participants, performances, and activities were cloggers, prize drawings, theater performances, face painting, book giveaways, Clifford the Big Red Dogs, a teddy bear clinic, Feeding South Florida food giveaways, Davie Police and Fire Departments, and the Broward County Sheriff’s Office.

The Alvin Sherman Library staff also were present at the event, offering Alvin Sherman Library cards to children and their families. The librarians also provided valuable information about the library’s vast resources on health and wellness, ensuring that families had access to reliable and up-to-date information long after the event concluded.

Posted 11/05/23

Learn About Media Literacy in the Era of Fake News, Nov. 7

The Farquhar Honors College and the Alvin Sherman Library present “The Open Classroom: Beyond Fake News & Deepfake Fear: Hope & Media Literacy.”

Join us for an open discussion on fake news and deepfakes and the importance of media literacy in combatting falsehoods.

  • When: Tuesday, Nov. 7 at 12:30 p.m.
  • 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 10/27/23

Miniaci Sets the Stage for an NSU Eclectic Extravaganza

Shannon Hall, the general manager of the Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center

Theatre. Numbers. People.

These are the three ingredients in life that bring joy to Shannon Hall, the general manager of the Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center. Hall has been with the Broward Center of the Performing Arts for more than 15 years and GM for the Miniaci PAC for five of those years.

The Miniaci PAC, a venue affiliated with the Broward Center of Performing Arts, is a 498-seat seat theatre that is part of the Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center on Nova Southeastern University’s main Davie Campus. This gem is in its 22nd season and supports many NSU academic engagements as well as promoting and contributing to the cultural life of the NSU community and of the community at large.

The Miniaci family, led by the late matriarch Rose and her late husband Alfred, inspired their family to generously support NSU and the South Florida community, helping create the Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center.

The world has been a stage for Hall since she was a young girl, getting cast in shows in elementary school and capturing the lead role in a Girl Scout production as “Daisy,” the affectionate nickname of Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of the Girl Scouts. From there, Hall took part in numerous high school production and received a theatre scholarship and graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts in Theatre.

“Fresh out of college, I was fortunate enough to get a job with Broadway Across America, the largest Broadway company of touring shows in Fort Lauderdale as an assistant bookkeeper,” she says. “From there I worked for Live Nation Concerts and eventually found my way back to my first love, theatre, and then took a job as the settlement accountant working with numbers, my second love.”

Now Hall calls herself “lucky” to be the GM of the Miniaci PAC, where she enjoys working on a “beautiful campus and building some exciting programming and partnerships.”

Hall beams when asked about the joys of her job.

“You know what’s great?  Being surrounded by young adults just beginning their life journey,” she says. “I feel like we are in a new beginning here too at the Miniaci PAC, especially post-COVID. The passion that each collaboration affords me feels refreshing, fun, and energetic.”

Over the years, the Miniaci PAC has been home to some top acts. In collaboration with the Division of Student Affairs, the center held an NSU Life 101 Speaking Series with artists such as John Legend, Jason Taylor, Vanessa Williams, Anthony Bourdain and Dwayne Johnson also known as “The Rock.”  It also has held sellout concerts such as the Peruvian superstar Eva Ayllon and Matisyahu, as well as a mix of iconic groups such as the doo wop group The Coasters, popular Irish folk group The High Kings, and Ken Block and Drew Copeland of Sister Hazel.

And the future continues to be bright, when it comes to upcoming acts, Hall says.

The dance company Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami returned with two ballets this season, the first “Falling for Dance” and a soon-to-be announced Mother’s Day brunch and ballet event. Miniaci PAC also is introduced its first-ever comedy series featuring HBO and BET’s Shang, Greek American LGBTQ+ stand-up comedian Gus Constantellis, Netflix’s Abby Hatcher, and the jaw-dropping Samantha Ramsdell, known for earning the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest mouth.”

“With a new team and outlook here, we are looking forward to recreating what we do at the Miniaci PAC,” Hall says. “It’s so heartwarming to see patrons moved by the performing arts when they watch or learn from an event – with every spectrum of emotion.”

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MINIACI PAC AND ITS UPCOMING PERFORMANCES.

Posted 10/22/23

NASA Administrator Tours Levan Center, Meets Students

On Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson visited Nova Southeastern University’s Davie Campus to see firsthand how the Alan B. Levan | NSU Broward Center of Innovation network is powering innovation in South Florida’s space ecosystem.

WTVJ-TV anchor Jackie Nespral interviews NASA Administrator Bill Nelson for an upcoming story during his visit to NSU.

During the visit, Administrator Nelson met with NSU President and CEO George L. Hanbury II; John Wensveen, the Chief Innovation Officer at NSU and Executive Director of the Levan Center; Provost Ronald J. Chenail; Dr. Fred Lippman, NSU’s Chancellor of the Health Professions Division; and Ken Dawson-Scully, NSU’s Senior Vice President for the Division of Research and Economic Development. Administrator Nelson also spoke with and took questions from several NSU students.

During his talk, Nelson covered the vastness of space, its influence on his life, the possibility of life beyond our planet, and UFO sightings. He also did a sit-down interview with WTVJ-TV anchor Jackie Nespral.

Nelson was sworn in as the 14th NASA administrator on May 3, 2021, and has been tasked with carrying out the vision for NASA to demonstrate American leadership in air, space, and on Earth for the benefit of all humanity.

Some of the top focuses of the Levan Center have been trends, challenges, opportunities, and strategies of entrepreneurship within the space sector. In September, the center held its Second Annual South Florida Space Day, which was dedicated to these objectives.

Posted 10/22/23

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