OPT Visionary - Winter/Spring 2015

NSU Overview PAGE 20 Dateline Health Wins telly Award In June, the HPD’s community service TV program Dateline Health was named a People’s Telly Silver winner in the 35 th Annual Telly Awards for its program entitled “Joint Preservation and Pain Management.” Dateline Health is a 30-minute program dedicated to promoting the com- munity’s overall health and well-being that covers a wide range of con- temporary health care issues through interviews with health care experts, researchers, and policymakers. This was Dateline Health’s fourth Telly Award, having received two in 2008 and another in 2012. The winning episode featured host Fred- erick Lippman, R.Ph., Ed.D., HPD chancellor, interviewing physicians from Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale on topics ranging from joint preservation and the harmful effects of opioids to new treatment options for mitigating pain. The Telly Awards was founded in 1979 and is the premier award hon- oring outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and pro- grams, the finest video and film productions, and online commercials, video, and films. Winners represent the best work of the most respected advertising agencies, production companies, television stations, cable operators, and corporate video departments worldwide. This year, nearly 12,000 entries were received from all 50 states and numerous countries. nSu receives $2.85 Million grant from u.S. Department of education NSU was awarded a $2.85 million Post-Baccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Title V program. The grant, led by NSU’s Gregory Simco, Ph.D., and Meline Kevorkian, Ed.D., who serve as co-administrators of the grant, will be used to expand post-baccalaureate educational opportunities and post-baccalaureate academic offerings for Hispanic college stu- dents and students from ethnically diverse populations who are attend- ing institutions of higher education. As our technology-driven society becomes increasingly complex, an advanced degree has become an expectation for many competitive and financially rewarding computer science positions. When compared to overall population diversity, however, the number and proportion of His- panic/Latinos seeking and earning graduate degrees, especially in fields related to the computer sciences, remains sorely lacking. Dr. Lippman (center) on the set of Dateline Health .