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NSU Achievements
SSC Claims Highest Division II Academic Success Rate for Seventh Consecutive Year
For the seventh-straight year, the Sunshine State Conference posted the top NCAA Division II Academic Success Rate. NSU was one of eight member institutions that had at least one program achieve a perfect mark. The Academic Success Rate (ASR) for all 24 Division II conferences was released at the NCAA…
A group of faculty members from the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences and Oceanographic Center has earned a federal grant of nearly half-a-million dollars. Awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Army Research Office, the grant will fund new equipment and support several undergraduate and graduate research projects over…
Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Judge Local Math Competition
Six faculty members from the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences volunteered at a regional Florida Association of Mu Alpha Theta (FAMAT) mathematics competition for local middle and high school students on Feb. 1. The faculty served as Dispute Center Judges, evaluating the merit of disputed solutions that differed from…
NSU College of Pharmacy Students Develop Community Program to Promote Project Vaccination
The NSU College of Pharmacy Florida Society of Health-System Pharmacists-Student Chapter (FSHP-SC) introduced its Project Vaccination outreach program to the community this fall. FSHP-SC established a partnership between Fighting Infectious Diseases in Emerging Countries (FIDEC) and Walgreens to develop this community program geared toward promoting vaccination awareness among minority populations…
College of Pharmacy Professor and Research Team Publish Landmark Paper
College of Pharmacy associate professor Jean J. Latimer, Ph.D., and her research team recently published a landmark paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science about 19 stage I tumors as primary explants and loss of functional DNA repair. Click here for more information on Latimer’s research.
Undergraduate Student Wins Award for Research Presentation at International Biomathematics Symposium
Abbiana Arenas, a biology major at NSU’s Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, earned a second place presentation award for her research poster and manuscript at the seventh annual International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research at Marymount University in Virginia, Oct. 11–13. More than 100 students and…
Medical School Executive Associate Dean Profiled in National Magazine
Elaine Wallace, D.O., M.S., executive associate dean of NSU College of Osteopathic Medicine, was featured on the cover of the inaugural edition of Leaders Across America. The magazine profiled Wallace as an innovator of medical techniques.
Medical School Professor Publishes Second Edition of Book
Stephen G. Grant, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Master of Public Health Program for NSU College of Osteopathic Medicine, co-edited the second edition of Molecular Toxicology Protocols—a work devoted to methods to detect, quantify, and utilize exposure data to predict and characterize cancer. Grant, who also works with the…
Nursing Professor Publishes Paper on Faculty Job Satisfaction
Marcia J. Derby-Davis, Ph.D., RN, associate professor and interim program director for the Fort Lauderdale entry level nursing program at the NSU College of Nursing, recently published an article in the January 2014 issue of the Journal of Professional Nursing titled “Predictors of Nursing Faculty’s Job Satisfaction and Intent to…
Medical School Names New Leadership for Clinics
Stanley Simpson, D.O., associate professor of family medicine for NSU College of Osteopathic Medicine, has been named medical director of the college’s medical clinics. Barbara Arcos, D.O., assistant professor and chair of the Department of Family Medicine, will serve as assistant medical director.
NSU’s Chief Information Officer Named one of Nation’s Top 100
Nova Southeastern University is proud to announce that one of its own, Tom West, M.B.A., was recently named one of America’s top 100 CIOs by IDG Enterprise. West, NSU’s vice president of Information Technology, joins others from across the country in being recognized in the Premier 100 Awards Program….
SHSS Faculty Member Presents at Association for Graduate Liberal Studies Conference
Judith McKay, J.D. Ph.D., faculty and chair of the Department of Multidisciplinary Studies (DMS) in NSU’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) presented at the 2013 Association for Graduate Liberal Studies Programs (AGLSP) Annual Conference and Meeting in Chicago. The conference theme was “Urban Gateways: Immigration and the Global…
Two NSU Faculty Members Recognized by Dentistry Today
Two NSU College of Dental Medicine faculty members were featured in the December 2013 issue of Dentistry Today magazine as “Leaders in Dental Continuing Education.” The honorees were Linda Niessen, D.M.D., M.P.H., M.P.P., dean and professor of the Nova Southeastern University College of Dental Medicine, and Michael A. Siegel, D.D.S., M.S., FDS…
Greater North Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce Bestows Educational Leadership Honor to Dean Singleton
The Greater North Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce recognized NSU’s Abraham S. Fischler School of Education Dean H. Wells Singleton, Ph.D., at a January 16, 2014 luncheon promoting local education initiatives and community service to North Miami Beach. Miami-Dade County Public School Board Member, District 3, Martin Karp, and Sarah…
College of Pharmacy Students Present Poster
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) recently held their annual Midyear Clinical Meeting in Orlando. The Florida Society of Health-System Pharmacists Student-Chapter (FSHP-SC) from NSU actively participated and showcased a poster about their professionalism track. The track consists of three main events: CV Workshop, Interview Skills Workshop and Residency…
College of Pharmacy Professor Attends American Heart Association Annual Conference
College of Pharmacy faculty member, Anastasios “Tassos” Lymperopoulos, BPharm, MSc, PhD, FAHA, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences, participated in an honorary photo session during the American Heart Association`s (AHA) Annual Conference’s Scientific Sessions recently held at the Dallas Convention Center. Scientific Sessions is the leading cardiovascular meeting for basic, translational,…
Robert Smith, Ph.D., assistant professor at the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, co-authored a research article on how dispersal affects the establishment and spread of invasive species, such as the python in South Florida. The article appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the…
HOLD-College of Dental Medicine Dean Elected as Delegate to National Science Organization
Linda Niessen, D.M.D., M.P.H., M.P.P., dean of the Nova Southeastern University College of Dental Medicine, was recently elected as a council delegate representing the Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In this role, Niessen will serve a three-year term. The American…
College of Pharmacy Students Published in Pharmacy Journal
College of Pharmacy students Judith Alphonse, Sireesha Bellam, Marlene Fernandez, Anishka Gilbert and Lauren Roper coauthored a commentary “The FDA Funding Crisis” along with their advisors Robert Speth, Ph.D., and Antonia Zapantis, M.S., Pharm.D., B.C.P.S. The manuscript was refined from a poster presentation “Does the FDA Have Enough Funding?” which…
NSU Professor Publishes Article in Business and Professional Ethics Journal
Randi L. Sims, Ph.D., professor of management at the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship, recently published an article entitled, “Antecedents and Consequences of Collective Fraud: A Study of the United States Residential Real Estate Market Boom and Bust” which appeared in the Fall 2013 issue of Business…