NSU Horizons Spring 2014

Nova Southeastern University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award associate’s, baccalaureate, master’s, educational specialist, doctorate, and professional degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call 404-679-4500 for questions about the accreditation of Nova Southeastern University. Nova Southeastern University admits students of any race, color, sex, age, nondisqualifying disability, religion or creed, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school, and does not discriminate in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs. 02-051-14sat 4 35 42 22 Features Learning by Teaching 4 Going Global 12 Palm Beach Campus 17 Cultural Diversity 22 Donors Advance Goal to Increase Scholarship Support 30 Distinguished Alumni Awards 31 Virtual Healing 35 Monument Honors Fellows Society 38 Departments President’s Message 2 Around NSU Building NSU’s Future 3 Royal Dames Supports Cancer Research 10 College of Dental Medicine Dean, Professor Honored 11 Travisano Gets Glass Ceiling Award 21 Celebration of Excellence 25 NSU Researcher Receives U.S. Patent 29 Fletcher Named First Schemel Professor 44 Chief Information Officer in Top 100 CIOs 44 Bruce Rogow Honored 44 Faculty Profiles Raymond Ownby 24 Nicole Fogarty 26 Augusto Soledade 28 Q&A Kelly Scott 34 Kelsey DeSantis 39 Steph Hammerman 40 Athletics Swimming a Lifesaver for Student-Athlete 41 Student-Athletes Score in Game and Classroom 42 Table of Contents horizons • spring 2014 F o l l o w N S U On the cover: Ashlee Uliano, who is in the Master of Science in Counseling program at the Center for Psychological Studies, works with a child at the Mailman Segal Center. Top photo: Chris Pruitt, a second-year occupational therapy student interning at the Mailman Segal Center, believes every child is different.