Perspectives Summer/Fall 2016

40 • NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY Dental College Kicks Off National Give Kids A Smile Program NSU’s College of Dental Medicine provided pro-bono dental services to 750 schoolchildren and special-needs patients in South Florida on February 5 to help kick off the American Dental Association (ADA) Foundation’s Give Kids A Smile Day program. The children received examinations, cleanings, oral health education, and preventive and restorative services valued at more than $300,000, all at no cost. The ADA Foundation selected NSU among 1,500 sites throughout the United States as the Give Kids A Smile Day national launch site because of the university’s leading efforts since the program began more than a decade ago. n NSU News of Note NSU Aims to Raise $500 Million by 2020 Scholarships and research opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds. Breakthrough stem-cell research. New therapies for patients with cancer and autism. Interprofessional collaboration in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. These are just a few of the goals on which NSU has its sights set as it launches Realizing Potential: The Cam- paign for Nova Southeastern University —the largest philanthropic campaign in the university’s more than 50-year history and in the history of Broward County. Through this philanthropic campaign, NSU seeks to raise $250 million by December 2020 to support excellence for its students, faculty members, and 21st-century educa- tional initiatives. Coupled with the university’s goal of also raising $300 million in sponsored research, service, and training projects, the Realizing Potential campaign is part of NSU’s Vision 2020 goal to raise more than $500 million in external funding. NSU has already raised more than half of the support in both philanthropy and sponsored projects since launching the silent phase of the campaign in July 2008. n On January 30, NSU Board of Trustees members and campaign leadership members joined George L. Hanbury II, Ph.D., NSU president and chief executive officer, to announce the official public launch of Realizing Potential at the university’s annual Celebration of Excellence gala. Class of 2017 dental students Sarah Sweetnam and Jay Ghiya prepare to perform an exam on a pediatric patient.