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NSU Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month 2015
NSU’s celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month is in full swing! See below for this week’s events and activities. Visit www.nova.edu/hispanicheritage for a complete listing of events. Diversity in Art! This exhibit is a celebration of art that features the Argentinan and Puerto Rican works of seven artists: Elizabeth Erazo…
Sharks Participate in Career and Graduate School Expo
Nova Southeastern University’s student-athletes recently took part in the university’s annual Career and Graduate School Expo on Wednesday, Sept. 30 in the Don Taft University Center. The Career and Graduate School Expo housed over 80 employers and graduate school representatives in attendance to meet with students focusing on career development….
DII Hoops Bulletin Places Women’s Basketball No. 3 in National Preseason Poll
For the third straight season, the Nova Southeastern University women’s basketball team has been featured in the Women’s Division II Bulletin season preview issue, as they have been chosen as the No. 3 team in the publication’s preseason top 10. This is the highest predicted ranking of the Sharks by…
Baseball Continues Tradition With Miracle League
The Nova Southeastern University Sharks baseball team once again gave back to the community by volunteering with the West Pines Miracle League, in what has become one of the squad’s most anticipated annual events. The Miracle League presents an opportunity to play baseball to disabled children, who would otherwise be…
Baseball Releases 2015 Recruiting Class
The Nova Southeastern University baseball team has added 17 newcomers for the upcoming 2016 season, as announced by head coach Greg Brown. With one of the largest recruiting classes in recent memory, the Sharks hope to have the depth, both in the pitching staff and on offense, to successfully defend the…
Rowing Kicks Off Fall with Exhibition Weekend
The Nova Southeastern University rowing team traveled to Orlando, Florida over the weekend for a scrimmage race against UCF and Jacksonville. The race took place at UCF grounds on Saturday, Oct. 3. The Sharks’ line up included coxswains Victoria Porretti (So., Norristown, Pa.) and Hannah DiLorenzo (Jr., Holland Patent, N.Y.) alternating throughout the scrimmage….
Women’s Soccer Player Named for the Third Time as SSC Offensive Player of the Week
For the third time this season, the Sunshine State Conference has honored women’s soccer player Sierra Lelii as the Offensive Player of the Week, as announced on Monday, Sept. 28. Lelii (R-Sr., Seminole, Fla.) scored four total goals in the team’s two victories this week, pushing their win streak to five and…
NSU College of Pharmacy Provides Free Flu Shots to Community
NSU’s College of Pharmacy has begun its annual campus-wide campaign to immunize students and employees against influenza (flu). Students from NSU’s American Pharmacy Association and the National Community Pharmacists Association student chapters helped educate patients about immunizations during a kickoff event on September 30 at which more than 100 employees…
Jacqueline Font-Guzman, J.D., Ph.D., doctoral graduate of NSU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS), has received the Puerto Rico Bar Association 2015 Juridical Book of the Year Award in the category “Essay Promoting Critical Thinking and Analysis of Juridical and Social Issues.” Her book, Experiencing Puerto Rican Citizenship…
CAHSS Faculty Displays at Bienes Museum of the Modern Book and at Venues Across the U.S.
Tennille Davis Schuster, M.F.A., faculty in NSU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) displayed two of her works at the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book as part of the 2015 Florida Artists’ Books Prize. This is a state-wide juried exhibition. Schuster’s works were titled, “Behind Closed Doors”…
Osteopathic Medical College Names Its Professor of the Year
Renee Alexis, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor and vice chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, received the 2014-15 NSU-COM Professor of the Year Award in October. The award is conferred upon a full-time faculty member who has served the university for at least 10 years, has achieved national and/or…
Dual Degree Student Chosen Representative for Law and Osteopathic Medicine Students
College of Osteopathic Medicine third year student, Saamia Shaikh, who is also a first-year student in the NSU Shepard Broad College of Law, was recently elected to the Student Bar Association Elections Committee. Shaikh will be representing both law and osteopathic medical students, as she also serves as the administrator…
The Qualitative Report has Surpassed One Million Downloads
Nova Southeastern University (NSU) is pleased to announce The Qualitative Report (TQR), an NSU online qualitative research journal created by Ron Chenail, Ph. D., has surpassed one million downloads. In 2014 NSU purchased the BEPRESS software to create NSUWorks which allowed TQR to be housed on a platform that provided…
Daylight Saving Time Ends this Saturday
Source: http://www.almanac.com/content/when-does-daylight-saving-time-end Before you go to bed on Saturday night, remember to “fall back” by setting your clocks back one hour. (The exceptions to DST are Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.) Did you know? Credit for Daylight Saving Time belongs to Benjamin Franklin, who first suggested…
NSU is pleased to announce it will be partnering with the Holocaust Learning and Education Fund, Inc. for the second annual Holocaust Reflection Contest, a statewide initiative focusing on Holocaust education. Participating middle and high school students are being asked to submit their original essays, poems, visual art pieces, and…
Walk to Fight Suicide: Out of the Darkness Community Walk, Nov. 15
Join the NSU and South Florida community in raising suicide awareness through participating in the annual Broward County Out of the Darkness Community Walk on Sunday, November 15 on NSU’s main campus. The walk is co-sponsored by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc. Registration will…
Cut the Cramming Workshop for Parents
NSU’s University School is offering a workshop for parents, “Cut the Cramming”. Location: Sonken Building, Upper School, room 112B. For registration or more information, send email to lb1039@nova.edu or call 954-262-4528. See Cut the Cramming flyer for details.
Intramural Volleyball and Softball
Registration: October 1-23, 2015 Play Starts: October 26 Divisions: Men’s Competitive, Men’s Recreational, Women’s CoRec Competitive, CoRec Recreational Cost: $50 per team Open to NSU Students, Faculty, Staff. Sign up at www.imleagues.com Click here for a full listing of the Intramural Fall 2015 Calendar. For more information contact Alina Cioletti at…
Below is a list of our current Shark Discount Vendors! Our participating vendors will now provide a minimum of 15% percent discount to any NSU student, faculty and staff who present their shark card at the time of purchase. Additionally, online vendors have provided our campus with special discount codes…
Dean Jon Garon to Speak at Museum Lecture Series
“The Color Wheel of Culture: How Law, Business and Politics Shape our Expression from Early Television to News Media,” will be the topic of the next NSU Art Museum Lecture Series with guest speaker Jon Garon, J.D., dean of the Shepard Broad College of Law. The event will be held…