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Refresh Miami recently did a story on the Alan B. Levan NSU Broward Center of Innovation, focusing on its early successes as well as its vision for a future that will bring space into play.
Posted 08/22/22
President George L. Hanbury II
The Business Development Board of Palm Beach County and ESPN West Palm partner on a “Business of the Month” program that highlights Palm Beach County leaders each month.
For the month of August this year, Nova Southeastern University was selected as the Business of the Month. As part of the honor, ESPN West Palm interviewed NSU President and CEO Dr. George L. Hanbury II how the college excels on and off the athletic field.
Posted 08/14/22
Pradeep R. Vanguri, Ph.D
Pradeep R. Vanguri, Ph.D., LAT, ATC, an associate professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance in the Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences, recently attended the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) Annual Clinical Symposia in Philadelphia, Pa., where he received the Athletic Trainer Service Award to honor his contributions within the State of Florida.
As a member of the Athletic Trainers’ Association of Florida (ATAF) since 2005, Vanguri has served in multiple roles including education committee chair, secretary, and currently as the vice-president.
In his time with ATAF, Vanguri has coordinated and planned the educational content for the annual meeting, managed the board infrastructure and finances, and supported legislative efforts.
Posted 07/31/22
From left, NSU Professor Monique Mokha, Ph.D., with colleague from Universiti Teknologi MARA in Malaysia.
Monique Mokha, Ph.D., a sport science professor, presented three research papers at the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports (ISBS) annual conference at John Moores University in Liverpool, England, July 19 – 23.
The ISBS is composed of members from all over the world with a desire to study and understand human movement as it relates to applied sports biomechanics. Participants come from a range of backgrounds including exercise science, engineering, rehabilitation, and medicine. The society meets annually at a university over a five-day period to exchange scholarship and experience the location’s culture. The location of the meeting rotates annually having been held in a variety of interesting locations such as Portugal, Austria, New Zealand, Germany, Japan, and Taiwan in addition to the United States. Like many professional organizations, meetings were not held in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19. Therefore, the meeting in Liverpool was much anticipated.
Professor Mokha delivered an oral presentation titled, “Biomechanics and Movement Pattern Deficits in Runners on the Same University Team: Implications for Preventative Sport Healthcare.” She also moderated a session on strength and conditioning biomechanics and presented two posters that had short oral introductions. The poster projects were titled, “Effects of Post-activation Performance Enhancement on Jump Asymmetry Using Banded Squats with Professional American Football Players and Are Functional Movements Precursors to Functional Performance in University Women’s Soccer Players?” The projects were collaborative work with NSU undergraduate and graduate students, staff athletic trainers and/or private sport coaches.
Professor Mokha teaches biomechanics and kinesiology courses in both the undergraduate exercise and sport science and graduate sport science programs in the Department of Health and Human Performance.
Posted 07/31/22
Heather Baxter, professor of law and director of legal research and writing, was elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Legal Writing Institute (LWI) for a four-year term beginning in 2022. LWI is the second-largest organization of law professors in the United States with nearly 3000 members. According to its website, LWI is “dedicated to improving legal communication, building the discipline of legal writing, and improving the status of legal writing faculty across the country.”
Professor Baxter has been very active in the legal writing community, including formerly chairing LWI’s Teaching Resources Committee and ALWD’s Blackwell Award Reception Committee. She currently serves on the ALWD Leadership and Development Committee, and the Diversity Committee of the Legal Writing, Research and Reasoning (LWRR) Section of AALS. In addition to legal writing, Professor Baxter also teaches Criminal Procedure and Appellate Advocacy, and she serves as Nova’s Moot Court Faculty Adviser.
Jane Ellen Cross, professor of law and associate dean for diversity inclusion, & public impact and director of the Caribbean Law Program, has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD). ALWD is one of the preeminent national professional associations for lawyering skills and legal writing professors.
Professor Cross been actively involved in ALWD as the Chair of the Innovative Programming Committee for the ALWD 2021 Conference and currently serves as the co-chair of the ALWD Diversity Committee. She is also on the Governing Board of the Legal Writing Institute’s Sirico Scholars’ Workshop and serves as the 2022 Program Coordinator. Professor Cross was selected to serve on the Program Committee for the Legal Writing, Research and Reasoning (LWRR) Section of AALS.
Posted 07/31/22
From right, Dr. Kenneth S. Kornman, editor-in chief of the Journal of Periodontology; Dr. William V. Giannobile, dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine; Dr. Richard Singer; Dr. Nicholas Jakubovics, editor-in -chief of the the Journal of Dental Research.
Richard Singer, D.M.D., M.S., Ph.D., from NSU’s College of Dental Medicine, received the 2nd place World Perio Research award at the EuroPerio10 Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. The trophy was presented at the Award Ceremony during the Sunstar session in June 2022 in Copenhagen.
Singer’s research paper was selected by the World Perio Research Award Committee, which is composed of representatives of leading dental journals worldwide. His research showed that moderate and severe periodontal diseases are associated with significant cardiovascular disease risk with marked sex disparity and heterogeneity by Hispanic/Latino background.
Since 2003, these awards have aimed to promote further research in the bi-directional relationship between oral health and systemic health to raise awareness about this issue around the world.
Posted 07/28/22
Rathinavelu
Dr. Appu Rathinavelu of Nova Southeastern University’s Rumbaugh Goodwin Institute for Cancer Research Center recently received the 2022 award for research from the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation. Rathinavelu and his team were given a $25,000 grant toward their research titled “Pre-clinical testing of NSU’s patented F16 drug molecule for treating neuroblastoma.”
Posted 07/31/22
McKay
Judith McKay, J.D., Ph.D., director of the doctoral program, and faculty in the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies (DCRS) in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center (HCAS), presented at the Women United Leadership Committee of the United Way of Broward County on June 21, 2022. Her topic was “Women, Conflict, and Mental Health.”
McKay is the faculty adviser to the Social Justice Roundtable and works with students in the community through Community Resolution Services (CRS), a practicum and volunteer site for DCRS. CRS hosts Story Café, We Love our Families series, The Women’s Roundtable, and is involved in offering workshops for the county’s Crisis Intervention Teams, and other events for community groups and organizations. She is also the co-director of the NSU Council for Dialogue and Democracy housed in HCAS. For more information, please contact her at mckayj@nova.edu.
Posted 07/17/22
Professor Hui Fang “Angie” Su, Ed.D.
Hui Fang “Angie” Su, Ed.D., professor at Nova Southeastern University’s Abraham Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice has been elected to the Florida Council of Teachers of Mathematics Board of Directors.
Su has been elected to serve as the Vice President of Higher Education.
Su will have a number of duties, including coordinating activities of the council at the high education level; serving as a member of the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, the Curriculum/Best Practices Committee, the Grants and Awards Committee and the Treasurer’s Audit Committee; and more.
The Florida Council of Teachers of Mathematics is a state chapter of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The goal of the organization is to promote the improvement of Florida’s mathematics instruction programs.
The council currently has more 1,100 members across 14 regions.
Congratulations on your new role Angie!
Posted 07/17/22
Breanna Vanderplow
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) held its 35th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology in New Orleans, Louisiana in May 2022. This year Nova Southeastern University Ph.D. student Breanna Vanderplow from the Physical Oceanography Laboratory at the Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences/Halmos College of Arts and Sciences was chosen for the Outstanding Student Oral Presentation Award.
Vanderplow presented her work on the new research that may help predict hurricane intensification in the presence of natural (biological) or anthropogenic (oil spill, dispersants) surfactants. Vanderplow is the first author of the paper titled “Increased Sea Spray Generation Due to Surfactants: An Insight Into Tropical Cyclone Intensity?” a result of collaboration with scientists from the University of Hawaii, University of Miami, and University of Rhode Island.
The research involved laboratory experiments at the UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science SUSTAIN facility, a numerical model developed at NSU using the state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics software ANSYS Fluent, and NSU’s supercomputer.
The laboratory lead and the paper co-author Professor Alexander Soloviev, Ph.D., said that hurricane track forecasting has seen continuous improvement during the last half century.
“At the same time, prediction of hurricane intensity, especially rapid intensification, has seen only a little or no improvement,” he said. “Furthermore, hurricane researchers are still debating why rapid intensification happens. One hypothesis is that hurricane intensity can depend on the microphysics of the air-sea interface that has not yet been implemented in operational hurricane forecasting models.“
The Physical Oceanography Laboratory is currently working on a pioneering approach to implement microphysics of the air-sea interface in hurricane forecasting models. Vanderplow has made an important contribution in this direction.
Vanderplow graduated from the NSU Honors College and was a recipient of the NSU President’s Scholarship. She received her MS Degree from the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and is now a Ph.D. student at the Physical Oceanography Laboratory. She considers it a great privilege to be able to present her work at this conference and any conferences where she can represent NSU.
Posted 07/17/22