Horizons Fall 2015

29 NSU HORIZONS The fall 2015 edition marks the 10th anniversary, and 20th issue, of Horizons , NSU’s premier magazine. Horizons ’ mission—to showcase NSU’s growth as a private research university and to highlight its innovative curriculum, strong faculty, industrious students, and successful alumni—has been evident since its first issue was launched in the fall of 2005. Under the direction of NSU’s Office of University Relations, Horizons is designed and edited by NSU’s Office of Publications. It is published twice annually and is distributed to more than 168,000 alumni, faculty and staff members, students, and friends of the university. In the past decade, Horizons has become an award-winning publica- tion. The two editions of 2010 won first place in the trade/special interest publication category during the 2011 Sunshine State Awards— the statewide journalism competition presented by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), South Florida Pro Chapter. Those same Horizons ’ issues also won two 2011 Communicator Awards given by the International Academy of the Visual Arts. The 2010 issues also were honored as Pewter winners in the Gold Ink Awards, a prestigious print competition sponsored by Printing Impressions magazine. Horizons was honored again by SPJ, this time with second place, in the trade/special interest publication category during the 2013 Sunshine State Awards. For a look at NSU’s Horizons through the years, visit www.nsunews.nova.edu/horizons . n HORIZONS HITS DECADE MARK ALSO INSIDE:BringingHope toHaiti •Creating EducatorsWhoExcel NSU’s FamilyTherapy ProgramAdds Horse Power FALL 2010 Inside: Public Art on Campus, Alumni Profiles, SocialMedia, Pharmacy’s 25th Anniversary Undergraduates Reach New Levels SPRING 2013 DISTANCE EDUCATION MUSEUM HONORS FISCHLER NSU President Emeritus Abraham S. Fischler, Ed.D., has been honored with a museum commemorating his life in distance education—located in the lobby of the university’s North Miami Beach Campus. The Distance Education Museum and Café is a living display of distance education documents, memorabilia, and images of the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education. The museum is a legacy project of the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education’s Student Government Association. The museum traces the origin of modern distance education from its beginnings in 1972, when then-Nova University launched the first clusters of distance students earning their educational leadership and higher education doctorates. n NSU RECEIVES UP TO $4.3 MILLION The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health awarded NSU’s Institute for Disaster and Emergency Preparedness an initial $590,000 with a recommended total award of up to $4.3 million over a five- year period to continue the Project SEAMIST (South East Area Marine Industry Safety Training) and enhance its offerings. “Project SEAMIST provides training so that vessels and seaports can function safely and efficiently, supporting an important economic component of Florida and the Gulf Coast,” said Stephen Grant, Ph.D., primary investigator of the grant and associate professor of public health at NSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine. This new addition to Project SEAMIST will be spearheaded by a co-collaborator, Kristi Messer, M.S.W., M.P.H., assistant project manager, Institute for Disaster and Emergency Preparedness, and assistant professor, Master of Public Health Program and Disaster and Emergency Preparedness, NSU College of Osteopathic Medicine. n Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number U45ES019350. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.