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University School Students Asked by PBS for Reaction to State of the Union Address
President Obama delivered his second State of the Union speech on Jan. 25, and education played a major part in it. Two students at University School of NSU – James Stage and Matthew Linn – were asked by PBS to write their reactions to the president’s education proposals. Stage is…
SHSS Alum Presents at Tennessee Association of Marriage and Family Therapy
SHSS doctoral candidate Rosalind Graham, M.S., LMFT, graduate of the master’s program in the Department of Marriage and Family Therapy (DFT) in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), was the featured presenter at the Tennessee Association of Marriage and Family Therapy Continuing Education Luncheon held at Harding…
SHSS Faculty Present at Diversity Dialogues
During the last Diversity Dialogues of the year, Honggang Yang, Ph.D., Dean of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) reported on the plenary session he attended at the Council of Graduate Schools 50th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Judith McKay, J.D. Ph.D., faculty and Chair of the…
SHSS Hosts The Qualitative Report 2nd Annual Conference
The Qualitative Report 2nd Annual Conference, sponsored by the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) with the participation of Dean Honggang Yang, was held at Nova Southeastern University on January 7 and 8, 2011. The theme of this year’s conference was “Researching Identity and Identifying Researchers.” Conference…
Management Professor Publishes Book for Team Leaders
Professor and Chair of Management for the Huizenga Business School, Bob Preziosi, D.P.A., recently published a book titled, Team NOW! A Resource for Team Leaders. The publisher, Get to the Point Books, is located in Dallas, Texas and specializes in situational learning packages. In addition, Professor Preziosi is in the final…
NSU Pediatrician Interviewed on Fox News Studio B about Over-caffeinated Kids
Deborah Mulligan, M.D., executive director of Nova Southeastern University’s Institute for Child Health Policy. Deborah Mulligan, M.D., executive director of NSU’s Institute for Child Health Policy, was interviewed in December by Fox News Studio B anchor Shepherd Smith as a pediatric expert on a story about a recently released study…
NSU Business School Executive Appointed to the Florida Technology, Research, and Scholarship Board
Former Gov. Charlie Crist recently appointed a top NSU business school dean to the Florida Technology, Research and Scholarship Board. J. Preston Jones, D.B.A., executive associate dean of academic affairs at NSU’s H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship, was appointed for a term beginning on Dec. 27 and…
SHSS Faculty Publish Book on Conflict Resolution Communication
Neil Katz, Ph.D., faculty and Chair of the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (DCAR) in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), and Marcia Sweedler, Ph.D., former Interim Chair and faculty in the department, have co-authored with John Lawyer the second edition of Communication and Conflict Resolution…
The upcoming issue of the journal Campus-Wide Information Systems (CWIS) will be publishing a paper by NSU’s Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences Associate Professor Yair Levy, Ph.D., written in conjunction with the business school’s part-time professor Michelle M. Ramim, Ph.D., and their two colleagues from the University of…
Florida Governor Reappoints Fischler School professor to Florida Fund for minority Teachers
NSU’s Fischler School of Education and Human Services is proud to announce that program professor Ken Dose, Ed.D., has been reappointed to the Board of Directors for the Florida Fund for Minority Teachers. Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist recently selected Dose and six other community leaders to serve in this…
NSU Computer Programming Team Competes in Regional Contest, Places in Top 50
Three undergraduate students from the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, who comprise NSU’s computer programming team, competed in the 2010 Southeast Regional Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) International Computer Programming Contest on Nov. 6, held at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Fla. The team finished 47th out of…
SHSS Student Named First Director of Diversity Education and Training at College of Charleston
Meridith Gould, M.S., doctoral candidate in the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (DCAR) in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), has been appointed as the first Director of Diversity Education and Training for the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C. Gould has an extensive background as…
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,…
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…