NSU’s College of Allied Health and Nursing students provide hearing aids to children
In October, NSU audiology students completed their second medical mission in the British Virgin Islands where they provided schoolchildren with audiology services and hearing aids donated by the ReSound Corporation. Teri Hamill, Ph.D., professor of audiology, took her students to BVI in February to identify hearing-impaired children. They later returned to fit the children with hearing
aids.
The Alvin Sherman Library celebrates its 10th birthday
On Dec. 8, NSU’s Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center will celebrate its 10th anniversary. Starting Dec. 10, a yearlong celebration will be held monthly at the library. In January, they will display a month-long exhibit dedicated to 10 years of service to the community. Events to follow include “Celebrate 10 years…of Diversity,” which takes place Feb. 11.
President Hanbury meets with HPD students for town hall meeting
On Dec. 2, in the Morris Auditorium at 11:30 a.m., President George L. Hanbury II met with students from NSU’s Health Professions Division for a student town hall meeting. Hanbury discussed issues with students and their concerns and questions regarding the state of the university and their respective division.
Professor demands students provide classroom snacks
In November, a California State University, Sacramento professor, George Parrott, walked out of his Psychology 101 lab class because snacks weren’t provided. Parrott has demanded snacks from his students for 39 years, and students were told of this demand on the first day of class. University spokeswoman Kimberly Nava said Parrott was ordered to stop demanding snacks by the dean and that his decision to walk out of class was unacceptable.
Police department employees fired after trying to cast spell on a city official
On Nov. 30, two North Miami Beach police department employees were fired after allegedly engaging in Santeria, an Afro-Cuban religion, in an attempt to remove City Manager Lyndon Bonner from North Miami Beach City Hall. According to sources, the accused employees tried to convince a janitor to assist them by spreading birdseed, believed to spread negative energy, in Bonner’s office. He refused and reported the incident to police.
