The shuttles on campus provide NSU students with easy transportation between various campus locations, rolling hills apartments and, on weekends, downtown Fort Lauderdale. While there are several new innovations that are working to achieve a highly efficient system, there is still room to improve. NextBus is one of the major ways which students can access […]
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Shark Shuttle up in Flames
On Sept. 14 at approximately 9:30 p.m. the Downtown Shark Shuttle broke down on the side of Interstate 595. The bus filled with smoke and the six students on the shuttle were evacuated shortly before the bus was engulfed in flames. No students or staff members were injured according to the fire department, but there […]
News Briefs, Sept. 11, 2018
NSU Shark Shuttle schedule available through NextBus With the addition of several new shuttle routes, the NSU Shark Shuttles schedule and current locations are now available online and through the iShark app through NextBus. The two new shuttle lines are the UC Shark Express and the Campus Express. The UC Shark Express stops at Rolling […]
Shark Shuttle: It’s still broken, please fix it
There has been an influx of residential students this year, so much so that some residence halls in Goodwin are now triples, and some apartment-style residence halls like Cultural Living Center house four students instead of the usual two. It seems like we should be adding more modes of transportation for students who do not […]
Getting around campus
Getting from the Health Professions Division to the Don Taft University Center doesn’t require a car or a one-hour walk in the hot South Florida sun. Students, faculty, staff and, even, visitors can travel around NSU for free when they ride the Shark Shuttles. The air-conditioned, mid-sized buses run every 10 minutes and take you […]
Technology Makes Life Easier for Students at NSU
Hollywood often presents technology as a force of evil. There are the killer robots in “iRobot,” Whiplash in “Ironman 2” and the first terminator sent to kill John Connor in the “Terminator” series, but at NSU technology is a force of good – unlike those robots. It helps students with their research, their communication and even their laundry.