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HPD’s Dateline Health
Wins Telly Award
In June, the HPD’s community service TV program
Dateline
Health
was named a People’s Telly Silver winner in the 35
th
Annu-
al Telly Awards for its program entitled “Joint Preservation and Pain
Management.”
Dateline Health
is a 30-minute program dedicated to
promoting the community’s overall health and well-being that covers a
wide range of contemporary health care issues through interviews with
health care experts, researchers, and policymakers.
This was
Dateline Health’s
fourth Telly Award, having received
two in 2008 and another in 2012. The winning episode featured host
Frederick Lippman, R.Ph., Ed.D., HPD chancellor
(pictured above)
,
interviewing physicians from Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale on
topics ranging from joint preservation and the harmful effects of opioids
to new treatment options for mitigating pain.
The Telly Awards were founded in 1979 and is the premier award
honoring outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and
programs, the finest video and film productions, and online commer-
cials, video, and films. Winners represent the best work of the most
respected advertising agencies, production companies, television sta-
tions, cable operators, and corporate video departments worldwide.
This year, nearly 12,000 entries were received from all 50 states and
numerous countries.
NSU Receives $2.85 Million Grant
from U.S. Department of Education
NSU was awarded a $2.85 million Post-Baccalaureate Opportuni-
ties for Hispanic Americans grant from the U.S. Department of Educa-
tion’s Title V program. The grant, led by NSU’s Gregory Simco, Ph.D.,
and Meline Kevorkian, Ed.D., who serve as co-administrators of the
grant, will be used to expand post-baccalaureate educational opportu-
nities and post-baccalaureate academic offerings for Hispanic college
students and students from ethnically diverse populations who are at-
tending institutions of higher education.
As our technology-driven society becomes increasingly complex,
an advanced degree has become an expectation for many competitive
and financially rewarding computer science positions. When compared
to overall population diversity, however, the number and proportion of
Hispanics/Latinos seeking and earning graduate degrees, especially in
fields related to the computer sciences, remains sorely lacking.
Because NSU serves as an Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI)
as defined by the U.S. Department of Education, the grant will allow
Hispanic and Latino students at NSU—as well as students from other
underrepresented populations—to benefit from sustainable changes
to curriculum content and instructional approaches. Students will also
benefit from an expanded support model that identifies and effectively
addresses student needs upon admission through graduation.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Title V program provides
grants to assist HSIs to expand educational opportunities for, and im-
Funding Updates...Puerto Rico Regional
Campus...Dateline Health Honored
