Tag: Halmos College of Arts and Sciences

Halmos Faculty Named to Comparative Parasitology Editorial Board

Christopher Blanar, Ph.D.

Christopher Blanar, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center (HCAS), has been named to the Editorial Board of Comparative Parasitology, which is the journal published by the Helminthological Society of Washington. This is a highly specialized journal covering such topics as parasite diversity surveys, species descriptions, and phylogenetic analyses that other journals are less equipped to publish.

Blanar’ s research interests include parasitism in coastal habitats, parasites and migratory behavior in Everglades fishes, biocontrol of parasitic nematodes using engineered bacteria, and parasite community ecology.

Posted 11/20/22

NSU Art + Design Hosts Art Faculty Exhibition Dec. 5 – Feb. 3

NSU Art + Design in the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts presents its Ninth Art Faculty Exhibition featuring art, guest lectures and workshops by Art + Design faculty Pablo “Tony” Alvarez (2021 – present), Kolos Schumy (2022 – present) and Tennille Shuster (2008 – 2018). The exhibit, artist lectures and letterpress workshop are free and open to the general public.

“The Ninth Art Faculty exhibition will highlight works from the diverse Art+ Design faculty since 2019,” said Kandy Lopez-Moreno, Associate Professor of Art + Design in the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts. “It will include works in ceramics, video, graphic design, photography and much more. This exhibition will also feature a video installation by the talented dance choreographer, Hattie Mae Williams.”

Posted 11/20/22

NSU Art + Design Hosts Artist-Inspired Collage Workshop, Nov. 15

NSU Art + Design in the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts invites the NSU and local community to a free collage workshop hosted by ARTS 3040: Museum Studies and Gallery Practices. Create a collage emulating Jill Lavetsky’s distinct art style and tour her ongoing exhibition “MERGE” in Gallery 217. All materials provided.

  • Date: Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022
  • Time: 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
  • Location: Gallery 217, Don Taft University Center
  • Free and open to the local community.

For more information, contact Kandy Lopez-Moreno at klopez1@nova.edu.

Follow NSU Art + Design on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok @nsuartdesign and Gallery 217 on Facebook and Instagram @gallery_217.

Posted 11/14/22

Halmos Student Picked for Panel on NextDoor Neighborhood Teams

Colina Cole, M.A.

Colina Cole, M.A., doctoral student in the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center, was invited to participate in a panel by Nextdoor Neighborhood Teams, the Nextdoor Leadership Summit, on challenging conversations. Nextdoor Neighborhood Teams work with many local neighborhoods to foster good neighbor relations.

Cole earned an M.A. in Conflict from UMASS Boston and a B.A. in French Studies from Beloit College. In addition to pursing her Ph.D., she is the president of the African Working Group in DCRS and serves as a graduate assistant.

Posted 11/06/22

Halmos Professor Speaks About New Book at Research Series

The NSU Center for Applied Humanities is proud to present the first event in its new “Research Reverberations” series.  This biannual series showcases NSU faculty research and scholarship in the humanities, bringing such research from the publication page to the community, on topics that impact both local and global concerns.

On Wednesday, November 16 from 5 to 6 p.m., Charles Zelden, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Humanities and Politics in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, will speak about his new book, The American Judicial System: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2022).  The event will be held in the Mailman-Hollywood Auditorium and is free and open to the public.

Please contact Marlisa Santos, Ph.D., (santosm@nova.edu), director of the NSU Center for Applied Humanities with questions.

Posted 11/06/22

Halmos Faculty Publishes Papers in International Journal, GigaScience

Stephen J. O’Brien, Ph.D., National Academy of Sciences USA member and faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center (HCAS), recently published two papers in the international journal GigaScience. This journal publishes ‘big data’, including ‘omics’, studies from across the entire spectrum of life and biomedical sciences.

Stephen J. O’Brien, Ph.D.

The two papers deal with different disciplines in the genomic sciences, both of which O’Brien has a distinguished research record in.

One was a Review paper published in June 2022, titled “A decade of GigaScience: A perspective on conservation genetics” (citation below). This paper provides O’Brien’s perspective on the history and new developments in the currently burgeoning field of wildlife conservation genetics and genomics – a discipline he was one of the pioneers of and remains active in. This area of research provides key knowledge to inform successful conservation intervention in an era experiencing a rapid pace of wildlife extinctions resulting from anthropogenic activities.

The second paper, published in September 2022, is human biology focused, and titled “The Pioneer Advantage: Filling the blank spots on the map of genome diversity in Europe” (citation below). This paper provides a review of the gaps remaining in human genome sequencing data, which although spurring a revolution in biomedical research, still has major geographic genome deserts regarding genome biodiversity of humans.

O’Brien, S.J. A decade of GigaScience: A Perspective on Conservation Genetics. GigaScience, Volume 11, 2022, giac055, https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac055

T.K. Oleksyk, W.W. Wolfsberger, K. Schubelka, S. Mangul, and S.J. O’Brien. The Pioneer Advantage: Filling the blank spots on the map of genome diversity in Europe. GigaScience, Volume 11, 2022, giac081, https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac081

Posted 10/23/22

Halmos Doctoral Alum Named Executive Dean at Sullivan University

LaVena Wilkin, Ph.D., graduate of the doctoral program in conflict analysis and resolution in the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies (DCRS) in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center (HCAS), was named the Executive Dean of the College of Business and Technology at Sullivan University.  Prior to this latest position, Wilkin served as the Dean of Ph.D. Programs.

LaVena Wilkin, Ph.D.

Wilkin has facilitated workshops on communication, conflict, emotional intelligence, forgiveness, P.E.A.C.E. from Conflict, and workplace bullying for a variety of organizations, These organizations include the Center for Non-Profit Excellence, The Archdiocese of Louisville, Integrating Women Leaders, FireKing, Governor’s Equal Employment Opportunity Annual Conference, the Academic Leadership Academy, the Society for Strategic Human Resources Managers, Unity of East Louisville, Duke Energy, and several other organizations. She also created a basic conflict management course for the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI).

She co-edited a book, entitled “From Discord to Harmony: Making the Workplace Hum”, which was published in March 2020.  Her latest project, The Handbook of Organizational Conflict Management, was published in 2022.  She is the Editor for the Journal of Conflict Management, a scholarly journal that publishes research in many of the multidisciplinary areas of managing conflicts.

Wilkin is the Vice-President emeritus for the Board of Directors at Unity of East Louisville.  Additionally, she previously served on the Board of Directors for the Society for the Prevention and Aggression Among Adolescence (SPAVA).   Before joining Sullivan, she spent twenty-six years in the construction industry, and three of those years she co-owned a masonry sub-contracting company.

Posted 10/23/22

Halmos College Professor Publishes Article in Africana Religions

Amanda Furiasse, Ph.D.

Amanda Furiasse, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities & Politics published “Madagascar’s Green Gold: Nature Religion, Biotechnology, and the Global Race against Covid-19,” in the Journal of Africana Religions Fall 2022 Issue.

The article explores the historical significance of Africana religions for pharmaceutical and biotechnology research and offers unique insight into the varying ways in which we can harness technology to develop environmentally sustainable healthcare systems.

According to Professor Furiasse, “Writing the article provided me with the opportunity to meet with Malagasy leaders and researchers who are working to build a pluralistic healthcare system that restores the island’s biodiversity. While Madagascar often conjures images of lush forests and ring-tailed lemurs, much of this biodiversity has been lost or is severely threatened. This article explores how Malagasy communities are reimagining healthcare as a mechanism for redressing biodiversity loss and healthcare’s global role in ecological sustainability.”

Posted 10/23/22

Halmos Faculty’s Co-Authored Article Appears in Astrobites

Stefan Kautsch, Ph.D., associate professor and President’s Distinguished Professor in Community Engagement in the Department of Chemistry and Physics in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center (HCAS), had a recent pedagogical research article picked up by the astrobites series. The article entitled,  “All in all, it’s just another brick in the mass function,” may be accessed at   https://astrobites.org/2022/08/26/all-in-all-its-just-another-brick-in-the-mass-function/.

Stefan Kautsch, Ph.D.,

Astrobites is a very popular reader’s digest for astronomy and astrophysics The article was co-authored with Kyle Hansotia, B.S., who recently graduated with a biology major from NSU. Hansotia was Kautsch’s research assistant. The other co-author was Dimitri Veras, Ph.D., an associate professor and Rutherford Fellow at Centre for Exoplanets and Habitability and Physics Department of University of Warwick (UK).

The article explains how almost all matter is distributed in the Cosmos and uses Lego bricks of a shark model to explain this concept. In general, massive objects are much less common than objects of low masses in the same object class, no matter if the objects are animals, plants, rocks, mountains, planetary bodies, stars, galaxies, etc. But the same law also connects all object classes with one another. The authors visualize the physics law behind this concept using Lego toy bricks and promote the teaching of this rarely known, but universal law. This article provides an experiential and active-learning approach to teaching complex concepts, while also discussing a potential explanation of the origin of the observations. The published version of the article appears in the European Journal of Physics, 42, 035605.

Posted 10/09/22

Halmos Faculty Presents at American Society for Microbiology Conference

Julie Torruellas Garcia, Ph.D., faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences and Kandy Lopez- Moreno, M.F.A., faculty in the Department of Communication, Media, and Arts in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center (HCAS), presented at the American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators, held virtually in July. Their presentation, entitled, “Using Microbiology to Teach Art,” was in the session on “Agar Art: Hands-on activities for your microbiology classroom.”

Garcia and Lopez Moreno discussed their agar art curriculum based on their on-going, unique science and art collaboration where Lopez Moreno brings her art students to Garcia’s microbiology lab. There they learn how to create art using colorful bacteria as the “paint” and agar as their “canvas”.   Garcia and Lopez Moreno provided lesson plans along with assessment strategies that attendees could use to implement our curriculum at their own institutions.

Posted 10/09/22

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