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treatments to finding new methods
for environmental sustainability, the
possibilities are endless.”
The new IBM supercomputer,
nicknamed Megalodon, allows NSU to
join an elite group of universities with
this type of research-computing power.
The name Megalodon was chosen as it
is the biggest prehistoric shark that ever
lived and the largest predatory marine
creature in the history of the planet.
The multimillion dollar supercomputer
was donated by Centaurus Energy in
Houston, Texas.
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of its own reserves and tax-exempt
financing. The CCR will provide wet
labs for many of NSU’s innovative
researchers, as well as a General Clinical
Research Center, which is an outpatient
facility with a centralized clinical
research infrastructure for investigators
in multiple disciplines.
“This new multidisciplinary center
will provide our world-class team of
researchers with the tools they need
to continue to make discoveries that
will impact the way we all live,” said
NSU President George L. Hanbury II,
Ph.D., of the research center that will
be located near the Health Professions
Division. “From developing new cancer
Construction Begins on NSU’s
Multidisciplinary Research Center
Broward County will soon have a
focal point for research and discoveries
that will one day impact all of humanity.
On February 13, Nova Southeastern
University broke ground on its
revolutionary
Center for Collaborative
Research (CCR)
that will house an
IBM supercomputer, one of Florida’s
largest wet labs, the NSU Technology
Incubator, and some of the world’s most
accomplished researchers.
Located on NSU’s main campus in
Davie, the 215,000 square-foot facility
will cost approximately $80 million to
construct and equip and is expected to
be completed in 2016. The university is
funding the CCR using a combination
Pictured (from left) at the groundbreaking are Gary Margules, Sc.D., NSU vice president for research and
technology transfer; Arti Patel, NSU sophomore; Al Gill, The ANF Group; Nelson Fernandez, The ANF Group; Al
Fernandez, The ANF Group; Ron Assaf, NSU Board of Trustees chair; George L. Hanbury II, Ph.D., NSU president;
Jacqueline Travisano, M.B.A., C.P.A., NSU executive vice president and chief operating officer; Frederick
Lippman, R.Ph., Ed.D., chancellor of NSU’s Health Professions Division; Adolfo Cotilla, ACAI Associates; Ralph
Rogers, Ph.D., NSU provost and executive vice president for academic affairs; George Weaver, Emil Buehler
Perpetual Trust; and Peter J. Witschen, M.P.A., NSU vice president for facilities management and public safety.
