NSU Horizons Winter 2008 - 2009

features 14 Autism Council Supports Families Looking for Answers 20 NSU Prepares the Next Generation of Leaders 26 What’s Hot in Today’s Cooling Job Market 32 Osteopathic Medicine: What We Don’t Know Might Cure Us departments 2 Letter from the President 3 Academic Notes • Holographic Professors: NSU Designs Distance Education of the Future • Law Center Welcomes New Dean • Collaborators in Change: NSU Therapy Clinic and Its Clients • Fischler School’s Doctoral Degree Licensed in New Jersey • Learning to Think Like a Researcher • Above and Beyond the Practice of Sports Medicine • Audiology Professor’s Invention Helps Thousands of Users • Diverse Graduate Degree Programs at the Law Center 8 Around Campus • Students Step Up Into Politics • Campus Pharmacy Provides Convenience and Quality Services • Live and Learn: On-Campus Housing Is Home Away from Home • A Day for Children • New, 50-Meter Pool Makes Waves at University School • Alvin Sherman Library Offers Educators Toolkit • A Merger of Art and Education • When Energy Costs Rise, NSU Keeps Its Cool 18 Spotlight • NSU’s Top Research Officer Making New Discoveries 24 Spotlight • A Quiet Warrior Fights for Peace 30 Spotlight • Talking Across Cultural Lines 31 Spotlight • NSU Staff Member Stays Young at 97 36 Verbatim • A Helping Hand in a Hurting Economy 38 Alumni Journal • Alumni Add a Needed Dash of Latin Flavor to Animation Projects 40 Scoreboard • NSU Athletics Fall Season Review contents page 14 page 20 paGE 11 page 38