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On Earth Day Explore Taste while Reducing Waste
Thursday, April 22 marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Celebrate this important day by joining us at Culinary Table or HPD Cafe to Explore Taste and Reduce Waste with globally inspired sandwiches. It’s all about the wrapper! Shark Dining will be using soy-based wax coated deli paper that is…
Check Out an April Start Smart Child Development Session at NSU’s Library
NSU’s Alvin Sherman Library is enhancing its literacy-based storytimes for children with “Start Smart,” a series of expert speakers, who after storytime, answer questions about your child’s healthy development. Miss Meagan’s Storytime Fun is for ages 3-5 years on Wednesdays from 10:30-11:30 a.m. and Miss Meagan’s Tiny Tots Storytime is…
Hear an Eclectic Quintet Performance at the Ars Flores Five-Star Chamber Music Concert, Apr. 17
The Ars Flores Symphony Orchestra, in partnership with the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, will host the Five-Star Chamber Music Concert at NSU on Apr. 17. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Performance Theatre of the college’s Performing and Visual Arts wing in the Don Taft…
Celebrate National Poetry Month with “Slam” at NSU’s Library
NSU’s Alvin Sherman Library is celebrating National Poetry Month by hosting a Teen Poetry Slam on April 17 at 5:30 p.m. The slam competition is open to ages 13-18. The last teen poet left standing at the mic will win a prize! The slam will be hosted by local poet,…
SHSS Faculty Presents at ASFMA Educational Seminar
Alexia Georgakopoulos was among the guest speakers at the ASFMA Annual Educational Seminar that was held on Mar. 13 in Ft. Lauderdale. The theme of the seminar was “Creating Solutions that Work.”
SHSS Faculty and Students Present at Niger Delta University 2010 Conference
Mark Davidheiser and doctoral student Andrew Ovienloba presented their papers at the Niger Delta University 2010 Conference in March in Nigeria. The conference theme was “Natural Resource, Security, and Development.”
Thirteen students from the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences spent part of their Spring Break in Anaheim, California, networking with and learning from peers and professionals in the medical industry at the 60th Annual Convention of the American Medical Student Association (AMSA), Mar. 11–14.
Law Professor Serves on Panel on the Right to Counsel for Children in Dependency
Michael Dale, professor of law at NSU’s Shepard Broad Law Center, was a panelist for a discussion titled “Right to Counsel for Children in Dependency” held at the University of Miami School of Law on Apr. 5.
NSU Competes in Corporate Run, Claims First-Place Finishes
More than 100 NSU employees competed for Team NSU at the Ft. Lauderdale Mercedes-Benz Corporate Run, with NSU posting two first-place finishes in the education category.
Law Center Awarded Grant for Public Service Fellows Program
The Shepard Broad Law Center has again been awarded a $30,000 grant from the Florida Bar Foundation to continue the Law Center’s Public Service Fellows Program.
GSCIS Alum Named Dean of Strayer’s School of Information Systems
Bill Dafnis, Ph.D., a 2009 alum of NSU’s Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences, has been named Dean of Strayer University’s School of Information Systems.
Law Center Moot Court Team Competes in Austria
A moot court team from NSU’s Shepard Broad Law Center recently competed against teams from 251 law schools from 62 different countries at the 17th Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria.
Law Professor Named Chair of Florida Bar Committee
Debra Moss Curtis, professor of law at NSU’s Shepard Broad Law Center, was named chair of the Florida Bar’s Standing Committee on Judicial Independence for the Bar year 2010-2011. Curtis is the first non-Board of Governors member to hold the seat.
Weight Watchers at Work Program begins Apr. 15
The Weight Watchers at Work Program is offering a free informational meeting on Apr.15 at 12 p.m.
Law Center Alumni Sworn-In to Practice before U.S. Supreme Court
The Shepard Broad Law Center sponsored its second biennial United States Supreme Court Admissions Ceremony as 41 law alumni stood before the nine justices of the Court and were sworn in to the bar of highest court in the nation on Mar. 30 and 31.
NSU OC Scientists Receive Global News Coverage
A manuscript authored by Sam Purkis, recently published in the journal GEOLOGY, has received extensive media coverage from both the British Broadcast Corporation (BBC) and Nature News. The work is co-authored by Gwilym Rowlands and Bernhard Riegl and explains the morphology of coral reefs in the Middle East in relation to a past monsoonal climate that, several thousand years ago, characterized the now ultra-dry Saharan region.
OC Scientists to Help Expand Climate Change Research in World’s Largest Marine Reserve
NSU scientists have established an environmental group to help expand climate change research in the newly-created world’s largest marine reserve, the Chagos Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the Indian Ocean.
Huizenga School’s IIFE to Host Fourth Annual Executive Summit
The H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship’s International Institute for Franchise Education (IIFE) will host its fourth annual Executive Summit on Apr. 22-23. Top executives in franchising and entrepreneurship attend this interactive and educational event to examine what it takes for a company to achieve and uphold greatness….
OC Scientists Host Workshop on the Conservation of the Chagos Archipelago
Sam Purkis, Ph.D., assistant professor of NSU’s Oceanographic Center (OC) and Gwilym Rowlands, OC research scientist, hosted a seminar on Mar. 1 at the OC to promote awareness about the ongoing consultation by the British Government to declare the Chagos Archipelago the largest Marine Protected Area on Earth. The Chagos…