Horizons Fall 2014

43 HORIZONS Assaf Endowed Scholarship Ronald and Kathleen Assaf created the Ron and Kathy Assaf Endowed Merit Schol- arship to attract and retain students who demonstrate superior academic merit, in order to create a highly talented undergraduate student body at NSU. The scholarship is designed to cover the total cost of tuition and fees, as well as on-campus housing and board, if needed. Each scholarship will automatically renew for up to three years as long as the student maintains full-time status and a 3.2 GPA. An annual progress report is also required. Ron Assaf is chair of the NSU Board of Trustees. The couple was awarded the President’s Community Award in 2012. The four students awarded a Ron and Kathy Assaf Endowed Merit Scholarship in 2014 are Arti Patel; Christina E. Durrance, a chemistry major planning a career in pharmacology; Anne Mohanan, dual admission for osteopathic medicine with undergraduate major in biology; and Rebecca Timmerman, a biology major. n around NSU The Telly Awards has named Dateline Health as a People’s Telly Silver winner in the 35th Annual Telly Awards for its piece titled “Joint Preservation and Pain Manage- ment.” This is Dateline Health ’s fourth Telly Award, having received two in 2008 and another in 2012. This year’s Telly Awards received nearly 12,000 entries from all 50 states and numerous countries. The Telly Awards was founded in 1979 and is the premier award honoring outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs; the finest video and film productions; and online commercials, video, and films. The winning episode featured host Fred Lippman, R.Ph., Ed.D., chancellor of NSU’s Health Professions Division, interviewing Francis M. McCormick, M.D., an orthope- dic specialist, and W. Porter McRoberts, M.D., an inter- ventional spine and pain management specialist from Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale. “This Telly Award is a great opportunity for us to thank the many experts who have donated their time and expertise over the past several years and helped us get to where we are today,” said Lippman. Dateline Health is a 30-minute service program that covers a wide range of contemporary health care issues through inter- views with health care experts, researchers, and policy makers. It airs on Broward Education Communication Network (BECON), carried by COMCAST and AT&T U-verse cable providers, DirectV and Dish Network satellite, and over air signals seven days a week throughout the tricounty area, reaching 4.3 million households in South Florida. n For more information about Dateline Health , visit www.nova.edu/datelinehealth . Dateline Health a Winner in the 35th Annual Telly Awards Pre-SOMA, the undergraduate division of the Student Osteopathic Medical Association. Patel admits that her schedule can be overwhelming sometimes, but she credits her friends and family for helping her through it—and the occasional time to stroll on a beach or dive into a great book. Another way to unplug from it all brings Patel full circle to her own introduction to the sciences. She mentors for NSU’s Science Alive program, which allows her to teach elementary school students science exper- iments not unlike her first encounter with a bulb, a battery, and a wire. “When they see it, it’s like magic to them,” she said. n