NSU Horizons Spring 2014

3 HORIZONS With a few shovels of dirt, NSUhas changed its future. In February, NSU broke ground on its $80-million, 215,000-square-foot Center for Collaborative Research (CCR). The center will expand NSU research in areas such as cardiovas- cular disease, anti-cancer therapies, chronic fatigue syndrome, and autism. “This new, multidisciplinary center will provide our world- class team of researchers with the tools they need to continue to make discoveries that will impact the way we all live,” said George L. Hanbury II, Ph.D., president and CEO of NSU. The center will house NSU’s Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine; Rumbaugh-Goodwin Institute for Cancer Research; and Emil Buehler Research Center for Engineering, Science, and Mathematics. The center also will include Broward County’s only private incubator for information security businesses. NSU’s Technology Incubator will provide opportunities for qualified companies interested in leasing space and having access to some of NSU’s technology, equipment, and other resources. The CCR will be the focal point of NSU’s connection to Flor- ida LambdaRail, an ultra-high-speed broadband network that links the state’s higher education institutions. The center also will feature one of the state’s largest wet labs, which can store chemicals, drugs, tissue samples, and other biological materials. The inclusion of a newly donated IBM supercomputer, nick- named Megalodon (for the biggest prehistoric shark that ever lived), will allow NSU researchers to analyze data generated by experiments in weeks or months, rather than the years required by conventional computers. It is intended that the United States Geological Survey (USGS), which is currently located on NSU’s main campus and already enjoys a long-standing relationship with NSU, will occupy the entire first floor of the CCR. The USGS and NSU will partner on collaborative interdisciplinary research involving greater Everglades restoration efforts, hydrology and water resources, and more. NSU is funding the center using a combination of its own reserves and tax-exempt financing. More than 300 construction- related jobs and another 150 research-related jobs will be created through this project. Construction will be completed in 2016. For more information on the CCR, visit www.nova.edu/ccr . n around NSU Building NSU’s Future Left to right: Gary Margules, NSU vice president for research and technology transfer; Arti Patel, NSU sophomore; Al Gill, Nelson Fernandez, and Al Fernandez, The ANF Group; Ron Assaf, NSU Board of Trustees chair; George L. Hanbury II, NSU president and CEO; Jacqueline Travisano, NSU executive vice president and COO; Fred Lippman, chancellor of NSU’s Health Professions Division; Adolfo Cotilla, ACAI Associates; Ralph V. Rogers, NSU provost and executive vice presi- dent for academic affairs; George Weaver, Emil Buehler Perpetual Trust; and Peter J. Witschen, NSU vice president for facilities management and public safety