According to a 2013 Time Inc. survey, the number one reason employers turn recent college graduates away is lack of “soft skills” in the workplace. Soft skills embody the practical skills required to succeed in a professional environment, such as dressing appropriately, working as part of a team, showing up on time and interacting with […]

  Black History month brings awareness to many notable and influential black people of the past. While African Americans are widely credited in excelling in music and sports, what many people are unaware of is the monumental impact they’ve had on modern-day technology and medical practices. Here is a list of some of the most […]

Marco Baez is a senior criminal justice, international studies and history major. He aspires to go to law school and eventually work for the federal government in the foreign relations area to help the U.S. improve its relationships with other countries. When I first got to the United States from Venezuela, I was immediately shocked […]

Associate psychology professor Leanne Boucher is a self-proclaimed nerd and brain fanatic. She studies and teaches about this complex organ both at NSU and in her spare time, keeping her passion for learning alive every day. She first became fascinated with psychology and experimental behavioral neuroscience during her undergraduate studies at Brandeis University in Boston, […]

No matter how much students love the college experience, there is one part of it that everyone could live without: midterm exam week. There is no way around them, and panicking, stressing and overdosing on coffee just makes the week more painful than it has to be. But taking advantage of all of the services […]

When people say “brand,” you automatically think they are referring to a company or an organization. In reality, a brand can be defined a variety of ways and is a term that can be applied to individuals as well as employers. Your brand can be defined as the “essence of who you are and how […]

Are you one of those people who separate their laundry into lights and darks? Or, better yet, do you put all your family’s laundry together and then separate the loads by color? Fortunately, our washing machines allow us to set the load size to small, medium or large depending on how much clothes we throw […]

Natalie Negron is a senior biology major and history and behavioral neuroscience minor. She spent six weeks at the Cleveland Clinic in Weston last summer, where she had many experiences that contributed to her passion for science and medicine. As a child, I was always very interested in science and knew that I wanted a […]

Four out of every five college students drink alcohol, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Additionally, about half of these young drinkers consume alcohol through binge drinking. Released in 2013, an NSU student and faculty-created app called iSelfChange is available for Apple smart devices to help both college students and adult […]