2024 FACT BOOK 39 the program’s academic standards will receive an $18,000 annual tuition scholarship. Upon successful completion of the program, students will receive a $20,000 investment from NSU toward their own business startup. The Terry Stiles School of Real Estate Development was also established at the college. • NSU’s Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine received funding recommendations for two grants from the U.S. Department of Defense Gulf War Illness program. One was for $8 million, and the other was for approximately $1 million. The funding supports continued efforts to study and support military veterans who suffer from Gulf War illness. • The Drs. Kiran C. and Pallavi Patel Family Foundation donated $25 million to NSU’s new M.D. college, which was named the Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine in recognition of this philanthropy. The foundation has made a total commitment of $230 million to NSU. Dr. Kiran C. Patel is the only person in the U.S. with two medical schools named after him. • NSU’s Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice launched the Fischler Education Academy to educate future teachers and provide guaranteed job offers upon graduation. • The Gail and Martin Press Health Professions Division Library is named. The Kapila Family Foundation established a Feeding Disorders Clinic and a Challenging Behavior Clinic at NSU’s Mailman Segal Center for Human Development. 2019 • The university community celebrated the grand opening of NSU’s new Tampa Bay Regional Campus in Clearwater, Florida. The more than 300,000-squarefoot facility features cutting-edge classrooms, expansive common areas, and a two-story fitness center. The campus is home to programs in NSU’s Ron and Kathy Assaf College of Nursing, Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences, College of Psychology, and Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice. It also serves as an additional site for NSU’s Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, which welcomed its first class of 150 students in August 2019. • NSU debuted its U.S. Army ROTC program. Army ROTC is an elective curriculum that students take along with their required college classes. It provides the tools, training, and experiences that will help students succeed in any competitive environment. Along with great leadership training, Army ROTC can help students pay college tuition. Because Army ROTC is an elective, students can participate in their fresh- man and sophomore years without any obligation to join the Army. • After an extensive review process that lasted two years, NSU was granted the honor of having a chapter of Sigma Xi (the Scientific Research Honor Society) installed. Having the NSU chapter of Sigma Xi puts the university among the ranks of more than 500 chapters around the world. Membership in this international organization has exceeded 100,000 members. • A team led by scientists from NSU’s Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Research Centre and Guy Harvey Research Institute, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, and Monterey Bay Aquarium completed the white shark genome. This was a major scientific step to understanding the biology of the great white shark and sharks in general. • NSU brought in the largest incoming undergraduate class in its history, doubling its total undergraduate enrollment in five years and increasing undergraduate retention from 63 percent in 2013 to 82 percent in 2019. These 1,897 new students also had higher academic credentials than what had been required in previous years. • NSU received two separate grants from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) totaling more than $4 million. A five-year grant in the amount of $2.7 million was given toward a research project focusing on deep-pelagic fauna. A second project, which received $1.6 million from NOAA Sea Grant, involves researchers from NSU, the University of Maine, Mote Marine Laboratory, and Auburn University. They will be researching highly migratory species in the Northwest Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. • The Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine received a $3.5-million federal grant to fund the South Florida Coastal Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (SFGWEP), one of a network of such programs. This national initiative was created to help establish a health care workforce that maximizes patient and family
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