NSU Horizons Spring 2018

3 NSU HORIZONS AROUND NSU NSU’s Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography inducted 75 students into the Clinical Exploration Program (CEP). CEP participants gain a broad perspective on how various medical and health fields work together. They also get the chance to job shadow, giving them a practical, up-close view of various health-related career options. CEP is led by Deanne Roopnarine, D.P.M., CEP program director and associate professor; Emily Schmitt Lavin, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences chair; and Mark Jaffe, D.P.M., associate professor. ¨ Sampling the Scrubs Daniel Alfonso, M.S., is Nova Southeastern University’s new vice president of facilities manage- ment. Alfonso will be responsible for the development and build-out of NSU’s new, 30-acre campus in the Tampa Bay area, the university’s master plan for facilities, ongoing and future construction projects, and public safety. Alfonso had previously served as the city manager for Miami, Florida. ¨ Alfonso to Lead Facilities Management Team NSU Shepard Broad College of Law associate professor Jane E. Cross, J.D., has been named one of the Top Educators of 2017 by the publications Legacy Miami and Legacy South Florida . Cross, who is also director of NSU’s Caribbean law program, is the faculty adviser to NSU’s Black Law Students’ Association, the Caribbean Law Students’ Association, and the NSU Human Rights Organization. She serves as president, executive commit- tee member, and advisory board member for the American and Caribbean Law Initiative, while also working as treasurer and board member of the Southeast/Southwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference. Legacy Miami is distributed in the Miami Herald , and Legacy South Florida is distributed in the Sun Sentinel . ¨ Professor Earns Top-Educator Honors Professor Paula Anderson-Worts (far right) discusses health-related career options with students in the Clinical Exploration Program.