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Forty Four NSU Law Center Alumni Recognized as Florida Legal Elite
Florida Trend Magazine recently announced its 2014 Florida Legal Elite list featuring 44 alumni from NSU’s Shepard Broad Law Center, placing the Law Center among the top five law schools in the state with the most honoree graduates. Now in its 11th edition, Florida Legal Elite showcases attorneys chosen by…
NSU Law Professor Recognized by U.S. Department of State
NSU Shepard Broad Law Center Professor and Associate Dean Tim Arcaro, J.D., has been formally recognized by the U.S. Department of State for his work on the Hague Convention Attorney Network. Arcaro’s work involved representing parents attempting to recover children who have been internationally parentally abducted from South Florida, or who may be targets…
NSU Pharmacy Students Place Second in Poster Competition
A team of NSU College of Pharmacy students came in second place at the Florida Pharmacy Association’s (FPA) 124th Annual Meeting and Convention poster competition, with less than a point separating them from first place. The team, comprised of Class of 2015 students Jigisha Bhagat, Harshal Desai, Neelam Gazarian, Darshan…
Occupational Therapy Students and Professor Assess Area Mobility for Individuals with Disabilities
NSU’s Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) Program Director Rachelle Dorne, M.Ed., Ed.D., OTR/L, CAPS, and seven students have joined with occupational therapy colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis to complete assessments of community usability with the Community Health Environmental Checklists (CHEC) in the Fort Lauderdale area. This is the…
Law Professors Participate at Annual SEALS Conference
Eight NSU faculty members participated in the annual Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) conference held on Amelia Island, FL, August 1-7, 2014. Professors Kathy Cerminara, Leslie Cooney, Olympia Duhart, and Athornia Steele, were speakers on panels about finance, course design, bad-faith claims, teaching, and being a law school dean,…
Silvia E. Rabionet, Ed.D., associate professor of socio-behavioral and administrative pharmacy for NSU’s College of Pharmacy, has been selected as a 2014-15 Academic Research Fellow for the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. The year-long leadership program is designed to expand the capabilities of established faculty research scientists and administrators…
Nova Southeastern University Welcomes The Olive Lewin Heritage Foundation Program
Nova Southeastern University was the host venue for the inaugural Olive Lewin Heritage Foundation program held in the Steele Auditorium at NSU’s Health Professions Division. More than 320 people attended and enjoyed the songs, dances, stories, videos, and scholarly explorations of Jamaica and its contributions to world culture. This public…
NSU Public Safety Office Designs Poster Board Depicting Core Values
NSU’s Public Safety Department was looking for ways to highlight NSU’s Core Values as well as the departmental core values. “While each member of the department had a clear understanding of how their roles supported the core values, we wanted a way for them to be able to visualize them…
SHSS Doctoral Candidate Presents at 31st Annual Qualitative Analysis Conference in Canada
Stephen Pidwysocky, doctoral candidate in the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (DCAR) in NSU’s Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), presented at the 31st Annual Qualitative Analysis Conference hosted by Brescia University College in London, Ontario on June 25-27, 2014. The conference theme was, “The Social Construction…
Marlin Muller, a second year Law Center student, was awarded a 2014 Summer Fellowship with Legal Aid Service of Broward County. This fellowship is awarded to an outstanding student annually and is sponsored by NeXT, the young professionals group that supports Legal Aid Service of Broward County and Coast to…
SHSS Faculty Presents at Justice Studies Association Conference
Toran Hansen, Ph.D., a faculty member in the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (DCAR) in NSU’s Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), presented at the Justice Studies Association’s 16th Annual Conference. The conference was held at Towson University in Maryland, on May 29-31, 2014, this years theme…
Professor Invited by Government of Puerto Rico to Celebrate Domestic Violence Law’s Anniversary
Lenore Walker, Ed.D., has been invited by the government of Puerto Rico to take part in the recognition of the 25th Anniversary of the Law for Prevention and Intervention Against Domestic Violence, also known as Law 54. The anniversary of Law 54 will be celebrated in mid-August. The law of…
Jennifer Gershman, Pharm.D., assistant professor in the College of Pharmacy, Jason Gershman, Ph.D., associate professor in the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, Andrea Fass, Pharm.D., assistant professor in the College of Pharmacy, and Ioana Popovici, Ph.D., assistant professor in the College of Pharmacy recently published a study in the…
NSU’s Office of Institutional Effectiveness Attend Annual Forum
NSU’s Office of Institutional Effectiveness attended and presented at this year’s Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Annual Forum held in Orlando, Florida last month. This year’s Forum was the largest in AIR history with over 2,000 institutional researchers sharing best practices. During the four-day conference NSU’s team presented the following…
NSU Sports Medicine Team Publishes Study in Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
The Nova Southeastern University Sports Medicine Interdisciplinary Team will have a study published this fall in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research titled: “Changes in Functional Movement Screen Scores Over a Season in Collegiate Soccer and Volleyball Athletes.” Read the Complete Release
SHSS Faculty Comments on California Shooting in the Naples Daily News
Cheryl Duckworth, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (DCAR) in NSU’s Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), was featured in the Naples Daily News Wednesday, June 4, 2014. Duckworth’s editorial was entitled “Deeper Issue at Root of California Killings.” Duckworth discussed the Isla…
NSU Dental Student Receives Colgate Research Scholarship Award
Htet Bo, a junior dental student at Nova Southeastern University’s College of Dental Medicine, was selected as one of 10 students in the United States to receive the 2014 Colgate Research Scholarship Award. The Colgate Research Scholarship Award is presented to junior and/or senior dental students who have shown academic…
Dateline Health Selected as a Winner in the 35th Annual Telly Awards
The Telly Awards has named Dateline Health as a People’s Telly Silver winner in the 35th Annual Telly Awards for its piece titled, “Joint Preservation and Pain Management.” This is Dateline Health’s fourth Telly Award, having received two in 2008 and another in 2012. This year’s Telly Awards received nearly…
Approximately 30 students from Miramar High school participated in the 2014 Aviation Summer Program, hosted by NSU’s Institute for the Study of Human Service, Health and Justice. This is the second summer that the program has been made available to high school students. In partnership with American Flyers, the program…
NSU Law Center Graduate Receives Florida Bar Animal Committee’s Outstanding Service Award
During the Florida Bar’s annual convention held June 25-28 in Orlando, Fl., recent Law Center graduate Yanae Barroso received the Animal Law Committee’s 2014 Outstanding Service Award. Barroso was selected for this honor because of her work on behalf of the highly endangered Florida Key deer. A summary of her…