News briefs – 4/13

College of Osteopathic Medicine students shave their heads in support of cancer research   On April 2 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., NSU students, faculty and friends gathered at NSU’s Tampa Bay Regional Campus for the Shaving Heads to Help Children with Cancer eEvent. The event, also called the “Be a Shark, Brave for the […]

News briefs – 3/30

Halmos College of Arts and Sciences collects towels for turtles   NSU Halmos College of Arts and Sciences SGA Executive Board organized a beach towel collection in March. The towel collection was “for the turtles up at Gumbo Limbo, where the team treats, provides surgery and rehabs the turtles with the ultimate hope of releasing them […]

News briefs – 3/16

Masks become optional across NSU campuses  In an email sent to all students, faculty and staff on March 1, NSU president Hanbury announced that masks would become optional at all NSU campuses, including the NSU University School and in classrooms. This comes after a previous email in February stating that there would be no more […]

News briefs – 2/23

NSU speech-language pathology professors publish book  Multiple NSU professors from the Department of Speech-Language Pathology published a book called “A Caregiver’s Guide to Communication Problems from Brain Injury or Disease” on Feb. 22. An associate professor in the speech-language pathology program at NSU, Barbara O’Connor Wells co-authored and co-edited the book along with a professor […]

News briefs – January recapped

Civil rights exhibit comes to the Alvin Sherman Library  The Museum of Florida History announced that an exhibit focused on the civil rights movement in Florida has arrived at the Alvin Sherman Library and will be running from Feb. 1 to March 12. The exhibit, titled “Civil Rights in the Sunshine State,” was made to […]

News briefs – 1/19

NSU introduces R.A.D program  The Student Care Team at Nova Southeastern University held informational sessions over Zoom on how to get involved with their new Rape Aggression Defense Systems (R.A.D.) classes that will begin this semester. The program aims to train students in self-defense mechanisms so that if they were ever to be found in […]

News briefs – 1/12

MLK day of service  The Office of Student Leadership and Civic engagement is hosting a day of service in honor of MLK day on Jan 17. SLCE and NSU will be working with the YMCA of South Florida to serve the Sistrunk Neighborhood in Fort Lauderdale with a neighborhood cleanup. Supplies including gloves, pickup sticks […]

News briefs – 2021 recapped

HalloQueen drag show  During the fall 2021 semester, Nova Southeastern University had a HalloQueen Drag Show that took place in the Miniachi Theater on campus. The show consisted of several different drag queens doing lip sync performances while interacting with members of the audience. Following the many performances was a question and answer session for […]

News briefs 11/30

The Tampa Bay regional campus opens Moss Family Café  After a long partnership between Nova Southeastern University and Moss Construction, NSU has opened a new café at the Tampa Regional Campus dedicated to the company. The café is named The Moss Family Café in honor of the longstanding relationship between the school and construction company, and […]

News briefs – 11/16

NSU hosts virtual Irish film festival  Starting Nov. 16 and running until Nov. 21, Nova Southeastern University will host a virtual Irish film festival sponsored by the Alvin Sherman Library, NSU Center for the Humanities and the South Florida Irish Studies Consortium. NSU Professor David Kilroy will lead discussions around independent Irish films that have not had large debuts in the United States, including titles like “Between […]