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NSU SharkFest was held on Friday, January 11, 2019 and it was a huge success! The NSU family enjoyed barbecue, food stations, music, and employees with anniversaries were recognized with pins and plaques.

The winner of the Rick Case car lease for one year was Deborah Chanan from the NSU University School. Congratulations to Deborah and all of the NSU employees who were recognized!!!

Click the link to view the  2018 Employee Anniversary Scroll

Fins Up!

For many years, Nova Southeastern University (NSU) has been participating in the Florida Power and Light Thermal Energy Storage (TES) Program. This program provides financial incentives for organizations to operate in an efficient manner, using every opportunity to reduce the use of electricity for daily operations.

For NSU, participation in the program translates into more than $1.7 million in rebates from FP&L since 2007. And now,  FP&L will present NSU with its latest rebate in the amount of $392,640. The event is scheduled for 1 p.m. Thur., Nov. 29 at NSU’s Robert S. Lafferty Sr. Central Energy Plant, located on NSU’s Fort Lauderdale-Davie Campus, 3300 S. University Drive.

“We are always looking for ways to be as energy efficient as possible while also being fiscally responsible,” said Dr. George Hanbury, President of NSU. “By utilizing the latest technologies in construction we’ve been able to receive a significant savings in operating costs, coupled with sizable rebates from FP&L. These are dollars that can be used elsewhere, helping keep overall costs down.”

NSU’s Robert S. Lafferty Sr. Central Energy Plant has been recognized as one of the largest energy storage systems in the United States, providing cooling that is both energy efficient and, at the same time, environmentally friendly.

“This plant is responsible for a majority of the cooling of the buildings on our Fort Lauderdale-Davie campus,” said Anthony Todaro, Associate Director of Physical Plant Operations at NSU. “It’s design allows us to make the ice we need to cool our facilities during off-peak hours, which reduces costs for us as well as lessening the strain on the electric grid.”

The way it works is simple: the plant makes huge amounts of ice during the evening hours when there is less stress on the electric grid. That ice is kept in huge containers and then used to cool the air that is pumped into various rooms and buildings.

NSU will continue exploring every opportunity to improve its operations and working hand-in-hand with FP&L is just one example of this commitment.

NSU Career Development hosts roughly one to two case competitions per semester, giving the opportunity for students to compete to find solutions for real-life scenarios and grow experience in each designated field. This fall semester, NSU Career Development collaborated with faculty from the Halmos College of Natural Sciences & Oceanography and Public Health Faculty from the College of Osteopathic medicine to host a case study focused on decreasing the prevalence of HIV in South Florida.

Students competed against one another by playing the role of epidemiologists that were sent by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to South Florida in order to combat the prevalence of HIV in the area. The students had to create a task force as well as a plan on how to target the HIV issue. Students not only got the opportunity to grow their problem-solving and presentation skills as individuals, but also had the opportunity to engage in real-world health field experience. Biology & Public Health faculty as well as a representative from the Broward Regional Health Planning Council evaluated twelve competing teams, ultimately crowning the two winners of the competition

The first-place and second-place prizes consisted of five-hundred dollars and two-hundred dollars of Visa Gift Cards. The first-place team consisted of Mahnoor Asif, Jasmin Tarakmi, Daria Ghegan, and Samantha Maldonado, each of which are Undergraduate students in the Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography. Kathy Yanes Perez, Celine Wong, Valeria Pardo, and Jessica Hallet, also Undergraduate students in the Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography, received the second-place prize. Congratulations to all of the winners of the Pre-Health case competition as well as all of the students who participated.

NSU has been hosting case competitions for four years and counting, and the variety of topics as well as experiences and prizes will continue to grow as opportunities expand and more students participate. If you are interested in potentially joining a future case competition, please contact the NSU Career Development at (954) 262-7201 or visit our Handshake page at https://nova.joinhandshake.com/.

Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Executive Vice President and Provost Ralph V. Rogers Jr., Ph.D., recently presented Linda Sobell, Ph.D., with the 8th Annual Provost’s Research and Scholarship Award.

The purpose of the award is to recognize a faculty member who has demonstrated significant achievement in support of NSU’s mission to foster scholarship, intellectual inquiry, and academic excellence. Research and scholarship are two of NSU’s eight core values, and excellence in these areas enhances education, patient care, and public service, and develops superior scholarship.

The announcement was made at the External Funding Recognition Reception, hosted by Gary S. Margules, Sc.D., vice president of NSU’s Office of Research and Technology Transfer. At this event, faculty members from all disciplines across the university are recognized for their commitment to advancing their fields of study.

“I am proud to honor a faculty member whose extraordinary accomplishments distinguish her in a community of bright, thoughtful, and engaged people” said Dr. Rogers.

Dr. Linda Sobell is recognized nationally and internationally as a leader in psychology and in the addictions field.  During her career, she made several distinguished theoretical and empirical behavioral advances in the addictions field, advances which have led to the understanding or amelioration of important clinical problems.

The excellence and importance of Dr. Sobell’s work has been widely recognized. A Google Scholar search yielded more than 20,000 citations of her work since 1992. In addition, she has been the recipient of grants from multiple federal agencies. Her role as a mentor and role model to students and young faculty has made a significant difference in the careers of aspiring researchers in the substance abuse field.   Dr. Sobell has received numerous awards honoring her accomplishments, and is currently serving  on the editorial boards of 9 peer review journals and is an Associate Editor for a highly successful book series.

Previous Provosts Research and Scholarship Award winners include*:

2017: Mahmood Shivji, Ph.D.

2016: Robert Speth, Ph.D., Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, NSU’s College of Pharmacy

2015: Nancy Klimas, M.D., director of the NSU Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine, professor of medicine, and chair of the Department of Clinical Immunology at NSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine

2014: Sam Purkis, Ph.D., M.B.A, associate professor at NSU’s Oceanographic Center

2013: Raymond Ownby, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., professor and chair of NSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

2012: Bernard Riegl, Ph.D., associate director of the NSU’s National Coral Reef Institute and professor at the Oceanographic Center

2012: Steven Kurtz, Ph.D., co-director for the NSU’s Center for Applied Research on Substance Use and Health Disparities and professor in the Division of Applied Interdisciplinary Studies

2011: Mark B. Sobell, Ph.D., ABPP, NSU’s Center for Psychological Studies

*Denotes titles and college names at the time the award was presented