Category: Pride Bites

Levan Center Receives Prestigious Entrepreneurship Award

From left, John Wensveen, executive director of the Levan Center; Alan B. Levan, chairman, Board of Governors; and Jaap Donath, assistant executive director of programs for the Levan Center.

The Alan B. Levan NSU Broward Center of Innovation received the “Outstanding Emerging Entrepreneurship Center” award at the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC) global conference in Las Vegas on October 28-29.  The five finalists were James Madison University, MIT, NSU, Technical University of Denmark, and University of Suffolk (UK).

In the world of entrepreneurship centers, GCEC is the global association representing leading university programs focused on sharing of best practices, developing programs and initiatives, and collaborating and assisting each other advancing, strengthening, and celebrating the role of universities in educating the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

Posted 11/20/22

USchool’s Thespian Troupe Gets High Marks at Festival

Our Middle School Thespian Troupe 88233 competed at the District Festival and did great in various theatrical categories. Join us in congratulating our students on their achievements!

CRITIC’S CHOICE (best in the room):

  • Monologue – Emi O.
  • Small Group Musical – Lal Y., Peyton G., and Zachary K.

SUPERIOR:

  • Solo Musical – Zachary K.
  • Duet Musical – Zachary K. and Lal Y.
  • Solo Musical – Antonia R.
  • Playwriting – Alex R.
  • Duet Acting – Dylan G. and Emi O.

EXCELLENT:

  • One Act – Ms. Pearl and the Magic Scrapbook (all-star cast members: Peyton G. and Zachary K.)
  • Solo Musical – Lal Y.
  • Solo Musical – Mikayla A.
  • Duet Musical – Eva L. and Victoria L.
  • Solo Musical – Eva L.
  • Monologue – Alex R.
  • Costume Design – Lexi E.
  • Costume Design – Dylan G.

Learn more about NSU University School’s college preparatory program for students in Preschool – Grade 12 at www.uschool.nova.edu.

Posted 11/20/23

USchool Robotics Teams Win Multiple Awards

Our Sharks Robotics teams are off to a strong start this season and swimming toward greatness! Join us in congratulating all 3 teams on qualifying to compete in the state championship and earning the following awards:

Team 4154X:

  • Tournament champions
  • Skills champion
  • Excellence Award

Team 4154V:

  • Tournament champions
  • Judges Award

Team 4154W:

  • Amaze Award

Learn more about NSU University School’s college preparatory program for students in Preschool – Grade 12 at www.uschool.nova.edu.

Posted 11/06/22

Halmos Student Picked for Panel on NextDoor Neighborhood Teams

Colina Cole, M.A.

Colina Cole, M.A., doctoral student in the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center, was invited to participate in a panel by Nextdoor Neighborhood Teams, the Nextdoor Leadership Summit, on challenging conversations. Nextdoor Neighborhood Teams work with many local neighborhoods to foster good neighbor relations.

Cole earned an M.A. in Conflict from UMASS Boston and a B.A. in French Studies from Beloit College. In addition to pursing her Ph.D., she is the president of the African Working Group in DCRS and serves as a graduate assistant.

Posted 11/06/22

Assistant Professor Presents at ADEA Workshop

From left: Aryia Amini, NSU College of Dental Medicine Director of BEDI; Ana Lopez, chair-elect ADEA; and Elias Moron, NSU College of Dental Medicine Faculty presenter.

Congratulations to Elías M. Morón, DDS, MPH, MHL, MHSM, clinical assistant professor at Nova Southeastern University’s College of Dental Medicine, for his publication in the Journal of Dental Educationand for his presentation at the 2022 ADEA Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Workshop in Saint Louis, Mo., on October 26th, 2022.

The title of publication and poster presentation was “Oral Health Inequities: Recommended Public Policies to Achieve Health Equity” that was co-authored with Ana Lopez, who is the chair-elect of the ADEA.

This year’s workshop featured scholars and authors from the Sept. 2022 JDE special issue that included Morón, focused on expanding and improving social justice, equity, access, diversity, inclusion and health equity in the academic health professions and oral health.

Posted 11/06/22

USchool Participates in Community Service Seminar

Students visited Broward Outreach Center and Feeding South Florida to sort and pack donations and serve lunch. Using the donations from our recent Socktober Drive, they created nearly 100 care packages for people in our community experiencing food and housing instability.

For the second day of the program, students volunteered on campus at the Lower School Scarecrow Breakfast and the Best Buddies Halloween Party to provide a fun morning for Lower School students and a lively afternoon for Special Olympics athletes.

Students developed leadership skills through team building, planning, communication, and leading events.

Learn more about NSU University School’s college preparatory program for students in Preschool – Grade 12 at www.uschool.nova.edu.

Posted 11/06/22

Education Professor Receives Visionary Award for Distinguished Leadership

Anymir Orellana, Ed.D.

Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice Professor Anymir Orellana, Ed.D., is the recipient of the Visionary Award for Distinguished Leadership from the Florida Distance Learning Association.

The award recognizes a leader who has demonstrated commitment in the field of education and has made significant contributions to distance learning in the organization.

Orellana said upon learning of the award, she was honored and excited. However, she also voiced her immense gratitude for her friend and colleague Gabriela Mendez, the person who nominated her for the recognition.

Orellana said she wanted to thank Mendez publicly.

“Not very many have good friends who take time to nominate you and appreciate you in such a way,” she said. “I thank her, and I thank the committee.”

Mendez said she nominated Orellana because she motivates her and others to constantly improve their online courses.

“As a great academic, she is always reading and learning about new topics and shares her knowledge with her colleagues by teaching us how to use technology and how to organize our courses. Dr. Orellana and I challenge each other to think beyond how teaching online is today to envision how it could be to benefit all students. Dr. Anymir Orellana is an inspiration to her colleagues and students.”

Orellana joins others from NSU to receive this distinction. In 2021, NSU President Dr. George Hanbury was granted the award, and in 2013, the award was received by FCESCJ Professor Hui Fang Huang “Angie” Su.

Orellana will be recognized at the FDLA/FAMTE 2022 virtual conference to be held in February 2023.

Posted 11/06/22

Audiology Department Offers Care to Special Needs Athletes

On Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022, the Audiology Department continued its long history with Special Olympics of Florida by providing hearing care to athletes with special needs.

Students from the second-year class tested the athletes’ hearing. Those athletes who were found to have permanent hearing loss were evaluated for new hearing aids.

Hearing aids will be provided through the Starkey Cares program, which has partnered with Special Olympics International for the past year.  Eight athletes were evaluated with four of them needing new amplification.

Thank you to the students and faculty who participated in the event.

Posted 11/06/22

Halmos Faculty Publishes Papers in International Journal, GigaScience

Stephen J. O’Brien, Ph.D., National Academy of Sciences USA member and faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center (HCAS), recently published two papers in the international journal GigaScience. This journal publishes ‘big data’, including ‘omics’, studies from across the entire spectrum of life and biomedical sciences.

Stephen J. O’Brien, Ph.D.

The two papers deal with different disciplines in the genomic sciences, both of which O’Brien has a distinguished research record in.

One was a Review paper published in June 2022, titled “A decade of GigaScience: A perspective on conservation genetics” (citation below). This paper provides O’Brien’s perspective on the history and new developments in the currently burgeoning field of wildlife conservation genetics and genomics – a discipline he was one of the pioneers of and remains active in. This area of research provides key knowledge to inform successful conservation intervention in an era experiencing a rapid pace of wildlife extinctions resulting from anthropogenic activities.

The second paper, published in September 2022, is human biology focused, and titled “The Pioneer Advantage: Filling the blank spots on the map of genome diversity in Europe” (citation below). This paper provides a review of the gaps remaining in human genome sequencing data, which although spurring a revolution in biomedical research, still has major geographic genome deserts regarding genome biodiversity of humans.

O’Brien, S.J. A decade of GigaScience: A Perspective on Conservation Genetics. GigaScience, Volume 11, 2022, giac055, https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac055

T.K. Oleksyk, W.W. Wolfsberger, K. Schubelka, S. Mangul, and S.J. O’Brien. The Pioneer Advantage: Filling the blank spots on the map of genome diversity in Europe. GigaScience, Volume 11, 2022, giac081, https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac081

Posted 10/23/22

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