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NSU Vice President selected for Leadership Florida
Larry Calderon, Ed.D, NSU’s vice president for community and governmental affairs, was recently selected to participate in Leadership Florida. According to its website, Leadership Florida’s mission is to build a strong, diverse statewide network of leaders with a shared commitment to connect communities and to make Florida a better place…
Huizenga School Management Professor Quoted in Article on Teacher Pay
The Miami Herald interviewed Bob Preziosi, D.P.A., professor and chair of management at the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship, for a story that ran on July 16 titled “Lawmakers, do your homework on teacher pay.” In the article, Preziosi was questioned about his opinion on the Florida…
Business School Professor and Students Coauthor Winning Papers
Doctoral students Hsiao-Ying Chao and Natcha Limthanakom, from the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship, teamed up to coauthor an article with their professor, Charles Collver, Ph.D., assistant professor of finance. The paper, titled, “The case for Intra-Regional Style Analysis: Diversification or Rotation?” won the 2010 FMA Asian…
Oceanographic Center Professor Wins Award for Best Professional Talk at International Conference
Mahmood Shivji, Ph.D., director of the NSU Oceanographic Center’s Guy Harvey Research Institute and Save Our Seas Shark Center, attended the Sharks International conference in Cairns, Australia in early June. In a unique twist to evaluating presentations, the graduate students at the conference served as judges for choosing the best…
Management Professor Discusses Executive Compensation on Miami Herald Business Show
Bob Preziosi, D.P.A., professor and chair of management in the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship, was the guest on a recent the Miami Herald Business Show to discuss executive compensation. Preziosi’s appearance can be viewed at http://www.miamiherald.com/video/index.html?media_id=15370532
Business School Professor to Write Newsletter for BankAtlantic
Pan G. Yatrakis, Ph.D., professor of economics and finance at the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship, recently agreed to write an economic newsletter for BankAtlantic. The newsletter, which will be issued periodically, will be published electronically on BankAtlantic’s website, www.floridabankblog.com. The latest issue, titled “A View from…
Fischler School Adjunct Published by Education Law Association
Robert J. Safransky, Ph.D., adjunct professor of school law and American government at NSU’s Fischler School of Education and Human Services, recently published an article entitled, “Everything You Wanted to Know about Muslim Students, But Did Not Know To Ask!” in the July 2010 issue of the Education Law Association’s…
PA Professor Receives Alumnus of the Year Award from Cornell University Forensic Society
Morton A. Diamond, M.D., professor and medical director of the NSU College of Allied Health and Nursing’s Physician Assistant Program, has been honored as the Alumnus of the Year by the Cornell University Forensics Society. This Ivy League collegiate organization is one of the largest and most respected groups in…
M.B.A. Graduate Advances Career at AT&T
Cheryl Milejczak, senior sales compensation delivery manager at AT&T Mobility, has used her M.B.A. degree to climb the corporate ladder. She earned her M.B.A. from the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship in January 2000. For the past 15 years, Milejczak has worked for the mobility division of…
GSCIS Professors Present Paper at InSITE Conference
Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences professors Timothy Ellis, Ph.D., and Yair Levy, Ph.D., presented “A Guide For Novice Researchers: Design and Development Research Methods” at the Information Science and Information Technology Education Conference (InSITE) in Cassino, Italy, on June 19-24. Levy serves on the executive board of Informing…
GSCIS Student Receives Amazon Web Services Research Grant
Gregory Reinert, doctoral student in computer information systems at the Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences, recently received the Amazon Web Services research grant to support work on his dissertation. Reinert’s proposed dissertation is entitled “Early Detection of Online Auction Opportunistic Sellers Through the Use of Negative-Positive Feedback.” When…
Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences Assistant Professor Presents at Conference in France
Vehbi Paksoy, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences Division of Math, Science, and Technology, presented his research at the Eighth French Combinatorial Conference at the University of Paris from June 28 – July 2. Paksoy’s talk was titled “A Combinatorial Criterion to Determine Fano Polygon…
Chief Executive Officer of Clinical Operations Recognized for Community Service
Robert S. Oller, D.O. , Chief Executive Officer of NSU’s Division of Clinical Operations, and his wife Ronnie were recently honored by the Florida Initiative for Suicide Prevention (FISP) as 2010 Humanitarians Award Honorees. Additionally, on May 12 the two were recognized for their service to the community by the…
SHSS Faculty Contributes to report for International Council on Human Rights Policy
Mark Davidheiser, Ph.D., faculty in the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (DCAR) in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), was a contributor to the report, “When Legal Worlds Overlap: Human Rights, State and Non-State Law,” a publication of the International Council on Human Rights Policy. The…
SHSS Faculty Presents at the 6th Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in Illinois
Ron Chenail, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Family Therapy (DFT) in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) presented at the 6th Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2010) held on May 26-29, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As part of a panel entitled, “Journal Publishing,” Chenail…
GSCIS Alumnus Publishes Book on IT Certification’s Impact on Student Engagement
David Andersson, Ed.S., a 2004 graduate of the computing technology in education program at NSU’s Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences, has authored a book entitled, “Information Technology Certification’s Impact on Student Engagement,” published by VDM Publishing, this past May. The book discusses how in IT programs, voluntary professional…
Information Systems Doctoral Student Presents at International Symposium
NSU Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences (GSCIS) doctoral student Gerard Christman recently presented his paper “On Facilitating Stability Operations: A Net-Centric, Federated Approach to Information Sharing” during the 15th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium: “The Evolution of C2” Conference in Santa Monica, Ca., June 22-24….
Vascular Sonography Student Wins National Poster Presentation Award
The Society for Vascular Ultrasound (SVU) presented NSU College of Allied Health and Nursing student Victoria Cortez with the Student Poster Presentation Award during the 2010 Vascular Annual Meeting held between June 10 and 12 in Boston. Cortez, a 2nd-year student in the vascular sonography program in the College of…
Law Center Alumna Appointed to Broward County Court
Melinda Kirsch Brown, a graduate of NSU’s Shepard Broad Law Center, was appointed to the Broward County Court by Gov. Charlie Crist on June 22. Brown will fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Peggy Gehl. “[Brown] has nearly two decades of practical experience with the law and…