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Hot Topics in Psychology Opens Semester with Chat on Career Counseling, Jan. 20
The Hot Topics in Psychology Series, co-sponsored by NSU’s Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences and the Center for Psychological Studies (CPS), will continue with “Career Construction Theory: A Narrative Approach to Career Counseling in the 21st Century.” The talk, presented by Kevin Glavin, Ph.D., professor at CPS, will take…
Law Center Hosts Trial Skills Training Program for Florida Lawyers
The National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) and NSU’s Shepard Broad Law Center will host a three day Trial Skills Training Program for 48 lawyers employed by the Florida Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel. These lawyers represent indigent parents involved in dependency and termination of parental rights cases…
Undergraduate Admissions to Host Campus Visit Day with Financial Aid Workshops, Jan. 29
The Office of Undergraduate Admissions will be hosting Campus Visit Day on Jan. 29, from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. A campus visit is your opportunity to experience NSU first-hand. Prospective undergraduate students and their families can look forward to speaking with an admissions counselor and taking a guided tour…
MSI Launches Successful “18 iPADS in 18 DAYS” Initiative
NSU’s Mailman Segal Institute (MSI) launched a new initiative recently – 18 iPads in 18 Days – to help facilitate communication for children with autism at MSI’s Baudhuin Preschool. The preschool provides services to children with autism through a contract with the School Board of Broward County and is recognized…
The new year is here and the Sharks are back in action! Never miss a beat of the action with these upcoming athletic events: Basketball: On Jan. 19, the men’s and women’s basketball team collides on the hardwood for its fifth league game of this year’s campaign in Boca Raton,…
Lifelong Learning Institute Now Under College of Osteopathic Medicine Umbrella
Effective Jan. 3, the administration of NSU’s Lifelong Learning Institute was officially transferred from the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences to the College of Osteopathic Medicine (COM). It will be overseen by the COM’s Geriatric Resources, Education, and Training Center (GREAT GEC). Founded in 1977 as the Institute for…
NSU Dean Emeritus Designated Fulbright Specialist in Negotiation and Mediation
NSU’s Shepard Broad Law Center Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus Joseph Harbaugh was recently designated a Fulbright Specialist in Negotiation and Mediation. This is the first time a faculty member from NSU has been awarded this designation. Harbaugh plans to use the Fulbright in May at NSU’s academic partner university,…
Get caught up in Recyclemania!
NSU is pitted against Florida’s other colleges in a nation-wide recycling competition! Let’s band together to help the earth and show those other schools just how green we can be. For more information about recycling on campus and the Recyclemania competition, visit www.nova.edu/gogreen.
OC Dean Appointed to Oil Spill Research Board
Richard E. Dodge, Ph.D., dean of NSU’s Oceanographic Center and executive director of NSU’s National Coral Reef Institute, was recently appointed by former Florida governor Charlie Crist to serve on the Gulf Research Initiative Research Board. The board is comprised of 20 eminent scientists from the US and from around…
SHSS Student Authors Book Reviews in the International Journal of Transitional Justice
Cyril Adonis, doctoral candidate in the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (DCAR) in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), had four book reviews published in the International Journal of Transitional Justice (2010). The books reviewed included: Religion and Conflict Resolution: Christianity and South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation…
Huizenga Business School Awarded Educational Institution of the Year
The South Florida Chapter of the National Black MBA Association Inc. proudly presented the Huizenga Business School with their Educational Institution of the Year award. The award was announced at the NBMBAA’s holiday event on Dec. 16. The Huizenga Business School has been a sponsor of the NBMBAA for the…
Student Selected to Receive Prestigious Postgraduate Fellowship
Vanessa Coe, a third-year student at the Shepard Broad Law Center, was recently awarded a two-year, postgraduate fellowship by Equal Justice Works (formerly the National Association for Public Interest Law). Launched in 1992 to address the shortage of attorneys working on behalf of traditionally underserved populations and causes, Equal Justice Works…
Dental School Faculty Named Continuing Education Leader
Michael A. Siegel, D.D.S., M.S., FDS RCSEd, professor and chair, Department of Diagnostic Sciences (Oral Medicine), NSU’s College of Dental Medicine, and professor of internal medicine (dermatology) at the College of Osteopathic Medicine, was pictured on the cover of Dentistry Today magazine as a “leader in dental continuing education.” This…
SHSS Faculty Featured on NSU’s Dateline Health’s 300th Episode
Shelley Green, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Family Therapy (DFT) in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) was a featured guest on the 300th episode of NSU’s Dateline Health, an award-winning public service television program run on Dec. 27, 2010. Green discussed equine therapy, which involves…
Deborah Mulligan, M.D., director of NSU’s Institute for Child Health Policy, will be teaching a course on helping babies breathe at an international pediatric conference next year. By special invitation from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Mulligan recently completed the Helping Babies Breathe Master Trainer course, which is an…
Business School Professor and Alumnus Co-Author Finance Paper
Pan G. Yatrakis, Ph.D., Professor of Finance and Economics at the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship, coauthored an international finance paper with Edward Jankovic, DBA, alumnus of the Huizenga Business School. The paper, which is titled “The Financial Setting for FDI Inflows into the Czech Republic and…
NSU Earns 2010 Community Engagement Classification from Carnegie Foundation
NSU is one of 115 U.S. colleges and universities in the country that recently earned The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s 2010 Community Engagement Classification. The classification acknowledges significant commitment to and demonstration of community engagement, said Carnegie Foundation President Anthony Bryk. It is awarded to colleges and…
Medical Students Earn Predoctoral Research Fellowships
Nathan J. Maltezos Second-year NSU College of Osteopathic Medicine students Nathan J. Maltezos and Aditya Vora were selected to participate in the college’s 2011-12 Predoctoral Research Fellowship Program. During their fellowship year, which will commence on July 1, Maltezos and Vora will have the opportunity to develop an individualized training…
Computer Sciences Alum Presents Paper at International Conference on System Sciences
James Brady, Ph.D., a 2010 graduate of the information systems program at NSU’s Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences, recently presented a paper entitled, “Securing Health Care: Assessing Factors that Affect HIPAA Security Compliance in Academic Medical Centers” during the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences in Kauai, Hawaii….
Research Grants Awarded to NSU Dental Residents
Two dental residents from NSU’s College of Dental Medicine’s Postgraduate Endodontics Program were recently awarded research grants from the American Association of Endodontists (AAE). The national organization represents dentists who are root canal specialists. Mark Limosani, D.M.D., who was awarded $5,500, will use the grant to study stem cell therapy…