2016 Fact Book

Each year, my pride in the accomplishments of NSU’s students, faculty and staff members, and alumni, grows. We are diligently making steps toward achieving NSU’s Vision 2020, and this past year marked many milestones in our progress. For instance, we restructured our colleges, schools, and centers with the goal of maximizing and leveraging graduate and professional academic disciplines to attract the best and brightest undergraduate students. As a result, degree programs and initiatives were repositioned among NSU’s colleges; many schools, colleges, and centers were renamed; colleges established academic discipline-based departments; and two new colleges were established. Moving forward, all eyes are set on our bright future helping our students, alumni, faculty members, and researchers realize their potential. To help accomplish this, construction on NSU’s Center for Collaborative Research (CCR) has been completed, and this impressive facility will open in 2016. One of the largest and most advanced research facilities in Florida, the CCR will house wet and dry labs for many of NSU’s innovative researchers; a General Clinical Research Center, an outpatient facility that will provide a centralized clinical research infrastructure to benefit investigators in multiple disciplines; and a technology incubator offering partnerships with innovative companies. The CCR will also house NSU’s Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine; NSU’s Rumbaugh-Goodwin Institute for Cancer Research; the Emil Buehler Research Center for Engineering, Science, and Mathematics; the U.S. Geological Survey, which partners with NSU on collaborative interdisciplinary research involving greater Everglades restoration efforts, hydrology, and water resources; and the NSU Cell Therapy Institute, an international collaboration with prominent medical research scientists from Sweden’s world-renowned Karolinska Institutet. Lastly, I am pleased to report that in 2015, local businessman and entrepreneur Steven J. Halmos and his wife, Madelaine, donated a generous financial gift to our university that was acknowledged by the naming of NSU’s Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography. The college will use the gift to establish undergraduate scholarships for students who are interested in studying marine sciences. Growing NSU’s marine sciences program is a major university priority, and the Halmos family saw this as a great way to help NSU achieve its goal of attaining national prominence in marine science. This Fact Book lays out data supporting the remarkable teaching, research, community service, scholarship, diversity, and innovation that makes me proud to lead NSU toward our Vision 2020. I invite you to read this informative document, learn more about NSU, and see why I believe so deeply in Shark pride. George L. Hanbury II, Ph.D. President and CEO Nova Southeastern University viii Message from the President