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Mailman Segal Center for Human Development to Host Open House, Dec. 6
NSU’s Mailman Segal Center for Human Development will be hosting an open house on Saturday, Dec. 6 which is open to the entire South Florida community. The event will run from 10-11:30 a.m. at the Jim & Jan Moran Family Center on NSU’s main campus. The open house will showcase…
NSU Students, Alumni Bring Science to Life at Local Elementary School
More than 40 NSU students and alumni volunteered at Welleby Elementary School in Sunrise for the annual Science Alive! event on Mar. 20. The school-wide gathering featured an evening of interactive experiments and scientific demonstrations geared toward children and their families. During Science Alive!, Welleby’s classrooms are transformed into science…
Men’s Soccer Hires Rivera as Assistant Coach
Nova Southeastern men’s soccer coach Giuseppe DePalo has announced the hiring of NSU alumnus Juan Rivera as the program’s assistant coach. “I’m happy to welcome Juan back to the Sharks family, he brings a wealth of playing experience and knows the inner workings of our program,” said coach DePalo. “In addition,…
OI2T Team Participate in 2013 Egg Hunt Duathlon
Three members of the OI2T (Office of Innovation and Information Technology) team recently participated in the 2013 Egg Hunt Duathlon held at CB Smith Park in Pembroke Pines on Saturday, March 30. The Duathlon consisted of a 1.5 mile run, followed by an 11 mile bike portion, followed by another…
Solve Boundary Value Problems at Semester’s Final Math Colloquium Talk, April 10
The Mathematics Colloquium Series will conclude for the winter 2013 semester with a presentation about boundary-value problems. The talk is hosted by the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences. “Disconjugacy and Differentiation for Solutions of Boundary Value Problems for Second-Order Dynamic Equations on a Time Scale” Mathematics Colloquium Series |…
Porter Adds another All-American Accolade
Highly-decorated guard Meixandra Porter added recognition to her ledger as she was recently named third-team All-American by Women’s Division II Bulletin. Less than a week after being chosen as a State Farm/WBCA Coaches’ All-American, Porter (Sr., Chantilly, Va.) became the first DII Bulletin honoree since Stephanie Sarosi was chosen by the publication twice…
NSU Alumna Taylor Collins Appears on Golf Channel
Alumna Taylor Collins appeared on Tuesday’s Morning Drive to announce herself as a contestant on the Golf Channel’s reality show, Big Break. The Morning Drive will re-air Tuesday at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. On the show, Collins was featured as a future contestant on one of the channel’s most…
Irish Dracula Play to Premiere on Campus with Dramatic Reading, April 13
The Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences will present a special dramatic reading of The Irish Dracula: A Melodrama in Five Acts, written by James Doan, Ph.D., professor at the college. Over the past month, NSU undergraduate students worked with Doan and Daniel Gelbmann, M.F.A., assistant professor at the college,…
Congrats! Swimming and Diving Brings Home 18 All-American Honors
The Nova Southeastern men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams wrapped up their third season of competition at the NCAA Division II National Championships, and the Sharks made their presence known. Together, the teams captured 18 All-America honors and 28 honorable mention All-America accolades. To be selected as All-America, a…
Get Moving to Graduate Psychology Talks on Exercise and Memory, April 10
The next talk in the Psychology Graduate Research Series, co-hosted by the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences and NSU’s Center for Psychological Studies (CPS), will feature presentations on research conducted by two students in the college’s M.S. in Experimental Psychology program. Psychology Graduate Research Series Presentations by Mackenzie Rack-Wildner…
NSU’s Economic Impact on Florida
In a new report, Thomas MacFarland, Ed.D., from the Office of Institutional Effectiveness, demonstrates that Nova Southeastern University had an economic impact on Florida that approached $2.6 billion during fiscal year 2010-2011. The economic impact study is a research tool that has been used in higher education for nearly 40…
SHSS Faculty Publishes Book on Relational Suicide Assessment; Will Host Book Signing, April 19
Douglas Flemons, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Family Therapy (DFT) in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), has written a book with Leonard Gralnik, M.D., Ph.D., entitled, Relational Suicide Assessment: Risk, Resources, and Possibilities for Safety, published by W.W. Norton. The book includes a foreword by…
NSU Law Students Win National Health Law Transaction Competition
A team of Nova Southeastern University third-year law students, Matthew Horton, A. Shawn Murray, and Jennifer Palacio, placed first as the overall champion at The L. Edward Bryant, Jr., National Health Law Transactional Competition at Loyola University School of Law in Chicago. The team also won Best Oral Presentation and…
NSU Mourns the Passing of CPS Professor Emeritus Nathan Azrin, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus known worldwide for developing the concept of “time-out” as an alternative to spanking
Art of Wine and Food Series continues
“An Evening of Breaking all the Rules with Napa Valley’s Art + Farm Wine!” Thursday, April 25, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. $35 per person This monthly series will be hosted by Stephanie Miskew, certified sommelier and wine educator. The guest chef of the month will pair perfect flavors with these…
Lecture on the work of Photographer Diane Arbus
Saturday, April 27, 2:00 pm, Horvitz Auditorium What makes Diane Arbus’s photographs so enthralling? Is it subject matter or creative style, or a combination of both? George Slade, consulting curator of photography at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, offers insights into the distinctive qualities of this ground-breaking American photographer…
Meet Augusten Burroughs, author of THIS IS HOW: Surviving What You Think You Can’t
Saturday, May 4, 2013 Books & Books at the Museum of Art| Fort Lauderdale If you believe life has a grudge against you, if you ever wondered -How am I supposed to survive this? This is how. Augusten Burroughs is the number on New York Times bestselling author of A…