II Editors in Chief Welcome to the inaugural issue of MAKO Magazine—the flagship publication of Nova Southeastern University (NSU). This publication not only celebrates our fulfillment of Vision 2020, but welcomes you to future issues on our journey to fulfill Vision 2025. As you enter these waters, MAKO Magazine will introduce you to faculty researchers, staff members, students, alumni, as well as NSU health care workers, curators, and educators. You’ll explore the depths of our investigations and discover interesting things you may never have known about NSU. Produced biannually, MAKO Magazine will cumulatively provide insight into NSU’s 14 colleges, NSU University School and other early childhood programs, the NSU Health system, NSU Art Museum | Fort Lauderdale, the Lifelong Learning Institute, and many more facets that distinguish our doctoral-research university. In this issue, you’ll witness how the nature of research and entrepreneurism suits the nature of our mascot, the mako shark. To be a difference maker, you must be dogged in your pursuit of data-driven pathways and determined to dominate in your chosen field or focus, and that includes higher education. Like the mako shark, our athletic mascot, you must swim faster, jump higher, and match agile thinking with precision execution. Here at NSU, we take our roles as apex contributors seriously. We are driven to find the edge for our students to realize their potential and advance graduates’ careers, professions, lives, and the communities where they reside. NSU’s mako sharks are also prepared to go to the distance when it comes to accelerating compassionate health care, healing, therapies, and cures. And all the while, we swim with the currents of our NSU Core Values, following courses charted with integrity. In closing, we hope you enjoy the premiere issue of MAKO Magazine and all future editions of NSU’s flagship publication. We trust your encounters with our 1 NSU Shark family will prove to be positive ones. Together, we are making yours a healthier world. Fins Up! INAUGURAL ISSUE HARRY K. MOON, M.D. Executive Vice President and COO, Nova Southeastern University, and COO, NSU Health RONALD J. CHENAIL, PH.D. Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Nova Southeastern University “Through the people and purpose of a university, we touch many lives. Moreover, the ripple effect spans boundaries of states, countries, continents, and even individual lifetimes.” —GEORGE L. HANBURY II, PH.D., NSU PRESIDENT AND CEO GEORGE L. HANBURY II, PH.D. President and CEO, Nova Southeastern University George L. Hanbury II, Ph.D. Harry K. Moon, M.D. Ronald J. Chenail, Ph.D.
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