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Announcing Faculty Marshals for NSU’s 2011 Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony
Each year, faculty members from the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, the Fischler School of Education & Human Services, and the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship are selected by their peers to serve as faculty marshals during NSU’s Commencement ceremony. As recipients of this prestigious honor,…
Faculty Presentation to Explore Fractional Calculus, Mar. 30
As part of the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences Mathematics Colloquium Series, Abdelkerim Bourouihiya, Ph.D., assistant professor in the college, will present a talk titled “Fractional Calculus.” The event will take place on Mar. 30 from 12 – 1 p.m., in the Mailman-Hollywood Building, room 310. Fractional calculus is…
Interactive Events Give You Something to Think About: Brain Awareness Week Continues Mar. 23
In celebration of national Brain Awareness Week, the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences will host a variety of events and interactive expos at NSU. These events are free and open to the NSU community. The following themed days will include demonstrations outside of…
Fischler School Professor Honored for Excellence in Use of Technology in Collegiate Mathematics
NSU Fischler School of Education and Human Services professor Hui Fang Huang “Angie” Su, Ed.D., was recently selected to receive the “2011 ICTCM Award for Excellence and Innovation with the Use of Technology in Collegiate Mathematics.” Su and her colleague, Mamikon Mnatsakanian of the California Institute of Technology, will receive…
Faculty Panel to Discuss “Memes” Inspired by Evolutionary Biologist Richard Dawkins, Feb. 14
Are you familiar with “memes”? On Feb. 14, the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences Division of Math, Science, and Technology will host a faculty panel titled “Kin You Spell M-E-M-E?: The Research and Impact of Richard Dawkins.” The event will take place from 5 – 6 p.m. in the…
Renowned Physicist to Speak at NSU, Dec. 18
The Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences Division of Math, Science, and Technology will host a lecture by renowned physicist Pierre Ramond, Ph.D., on Saturday, Dec. 18. The talk—part of the Miami 2010 topical conference on elementary particles, astrophysics, and cosmology—will begin at 8 p.m. in the Performance Theatre of…
MSI offers Tutorial Program for Children in Grades K-5
NSU’s Mailman Segal Institute is offering Super Kids!, an innovative, afterschool program for children in grades K-5 that uses an individualized, hands-on approach for improving reading, writing and math skills. Students are provided with tailor-made programs to suit their individual needs based on an assessment which is included at NO EXTRA…
Mathematics Colloquium Series Closes Fall Semester, Dec. 1
The Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences Division of Math, Science, and Technology will conclude the Mathematics Colloquium Series for fall 2010 with a pair of talks on Takagi’s Function. The presentations will take place on Dec. 1, from 12 – 1 p.m., in the Mailman-Hollywood Building, room 311. About…
Faculty Panel to Examine Environmental and Ecological Impacts of Hurricane Katrina
In connection with filmmaker Spike Lee’s visit to NSU, the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences Division of Math, Science, and Technology will host a faculty panel discussion titled, “After the Flood,” on Oct. 27. The event will take place from 5 – 6 p.m. in the Mailman-Hollywood Building, second-floor…
Nova Southeastern University (NSU) recently received a $2.87-million dollar Title V grant from the U.S. Department of Education to increase academic opportunities for Hispanic students and other minorities.
Mathematics Colloquium Series Opens with Talk on Neuronal Field Models, Oct. 6
Evan Haskell, Ph.D., associate professor in the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, will open the 2010–2011 Mathematics Colloquium Series, presented by the college’s Division of Math, Science, and Technology, with a talk titled, “Localized Activity States for Neuronal Field Models of Feature Selectivity.” The presentation will take place on…
Office of Academic Services to Hold Open House, Oct. 7
When was the last time you stopped by the Office of Academic Services (OAS) at Nova Southeastern University? Did you know that OAS, part of the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, offers students tutoring sessions, success coaching, study areas and rooms for reserve, math DVDs for checkout, solution manuals,…
M.B.A. Alumna Climbs Corporate Ladder to VP Position
Charlotte Mather-Taylor, a 2007 M.B.A. graduate of the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship, has worked her way up the corporate ladder and is now the vice president of government relations and community affairs at Broward Health (formerly North Broward Hospital District). Mather-Taylor joined Broward Health more than 15…
Students Recognized for Outstanding Scholarship in Annual Undergraduate Symposium
For the ninth year, the NSU community gathered in celebration of outstanding student scholarship at the 2010 Undergraduate Student Symposium, hosted by the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences on Apr. 9. Symposium projects cover areas of student scholarship ranging from the experimental, applied, and computational to the theoretical, artistic,…
The Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences Division of Math, Science, and Technology will conclude this year’s Mathematics Colloquium Series with a guest lecture titled, “Invariant Subspaces and Their Invariants,” led by Markus Schmidmeier, Ph.D., associate professor at Florida Atlantic University. The event will take place on Apr. 28, from 12…
Faculty Marshals for NSU’s 2010 Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony Announced
Each year, faculty members from the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, the Fischler School of Education and Human Services, and the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship are selected by their peers to serve as faculty marshals during NSU’s commencement ceremony. As recipients of this prestigious honor,…
Seventy students from three inner-city Miami-Dade County elementary schools will experience first-hand how good grades can pay off when Miami HEAT mascot Burnie visits with representatives from Nova Southeastern University (NSU) to hand out HEAT tickets to honor roll students.
NSU’s Fischler School of Education Fires Up Students with Miami HEAT Tickets
On April 8, 69 students from three Miami-Dade elementary schools will experience first hand how good grades can pay off.