While school wasn’t in session for most of the NSU community, some Sharks were spending their time making headlines. Take a look at what they did over the summer.
NSU’s Oceanographic Center started a campaign for coral reefs
Students at NSU’s Oceanographic Center hosted an online crowdsourcing campaign from June 8 to July 22 to raise at least $10,000 for NSU’s Coral Nursery Initiative. The funds raised will help support graduate student education and research at the Oceanographic Center and will benefit the Nursery Initiative through the creation of at least two coral reef structures, which will grow around 200 corals.
NSU researchers created a new web application
A group of NSU researchers from the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, including sophomore biology major Chau Phung, developed a new app that allows people to create their own galaxy classifications. Phung, along with Assistant Professor Stefan Kautsch presented a poster about the new application at the 224th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Boston, Massachusetts at the beginning of June. The group plans on releasing the app in the Google Play store.
A professor became a television star
Charles Messing, a professor at NSU’s Oceanographic Center, starred on the Emmy Award-winning PBS series “Changing Seas” on June 18. The episode, “Living Fossils,” showed Messing and other experts descend in a submersible into the deep waters off of the coast of Roatan, Honduras, where they studied crinoids that have existed since before the age of dinosaurs.
NSU’s College of Optometry received more than half a million dollars
The National Eye Institute awarded investigators at NSU’s College of Optometry $556,532 to begin the Convergence Insufficiency Treatment Trial—Attention and Reading Trial. The trial uses optometry, ophthalmology, psychiatry and education to study the effects of convergence insufficiency, a common vision disorder in which the eyes turn slightly outward, on a child’s attention and reading performance.
A coach competed in a weightlifting competition
NSU’s Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach Cameron Clark won second place at South Florida’s premier style weightlifting competition, the MIA Classic. The Classic is the biggest USA Weightlifting competition south of Orlando.
NSU kept making the news in other ways
Dr. Jo of Fox 13 in Tampa interviewed Cardiovascular Sonography Program Director Sam Yoders on June 23 about the technology the program uses to identify heart defects.
Experts at NSU’s Oceanographic Center were featured in multiple media reports regarding a shark attack in the Intracoastal Waterway, shark tagging and different organizations and camps.
The College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Project HOPE (Homelessness in Osteopathic Pre-doctoral Education) was featured on WPLG Local 10’s HealthCast on June 4. The project is a medical education model that addresses the lack of training available to health care providers for the care of the homeless.
The College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Lifelong Learning Institute off-campus program offers lectures at retirement communities throughout South Florida regarding history, music, literature, social science and art. The program was featured in the Sun Sentinel on June 22.
Meline Kevorkian, bullying prevention and school safety expert, was featured in a story on WTVJ NBC-6 Miami about bullying prevention and awareness on May 20.
