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Interview With Robert Bogorff - Nsu Archivist, Robert Bogorff

Oral Histories of Nova Southeastern University

History of NSU

History of Libraries and Archives

R/V Gulfstream

Royal Dames of Nova University

Leo Goodwin Institute for Cancer Research

Interview With President George Hanbury Iii - President And Ceo, George Hanbury Iii

Oral Histories of Nova Southeastern University

Vice President, city manager, Broward County, Fort Lauderdale, Ray Ferrero, CEO, COO< chancellor, The Center of Psychological Studies, merger, undergraduate, scholarships, law, medicine, pharmacy, optometry, dentistry, psychology or a graduate education, Miami Dolphins, Knight Foundation, NCAA Division, FAU, women's golf, Don Riggs, Sam Morrison, private not-for-profit university, library, Joel Berman, county administrator, South Florida Educational Center, Abe Fischler, Academical Village, hospital, South Broward Hospital District, NYIT merger, Grand Oaks Golf Course, accreditation, Unico, union, TCB, Taking Care of Business, the Museum of Art , Ovid Lewis, Stephen Feldman,

Interview With Samuel F. Morrison - Director Broward County Library System, Samuel F. Morrison

Oral Histories of Nova Southeastern University

County library system, Donald Riggs, joint-use facility, American Library Association, SEFLIN, Broward County, Larry Lietzke, largest library building, South Florida, public library, “Library of the Year”, Ray Ferrero, planning and construction, George Hanbury, Ron Assaf , H. Wayne Huizinga, African Americans , Franklin Smith, Milton Jones, Dalai Lama, Sistrunk Boulevard, African-American Research Library and Cultural Center

Interview With Ronald Brown - Professor Of Law, Ronald Brown

Oral Histories of Nova Southeastern University

Larry Hyde, Parker Building, library, germ-free rats, Peter Thornton, Bruce Rogow, Don Llewellyn, Ovid Lewis, Joe Smith, Steve Wisotsky, Roger Abrams, law school, Rolling Hills Country Club, Marc Rohr, accreditation, Unit Trust, Baudhuin School, Abe Fischler, Goodwin Trust, Della-Donna, legal education, joint degrees, European Union, Westlaw Education Network, LexisNexis, precedence, Shepard Broad Law Center, Family Center, University School, doctorate public administration, legal introduction to law and ethics of public administration, administrative law, Abe Fischler, Ray Ferrero, Family Center, the Mailman Segal Institute for Early Childhood Studies, Broward County, George Hanbury, Academical Village, Hurricane Andrew

Preliminary Biochemical Characterization Of The Novel, Non-At1, Non-At2 Angiotensin Binding Site From The Rat Brain, Vardan T. Karamyan, Jason Arsenault, Emanuel Escher, Robert C. Speth

HPD Articles

A novel binding site for angiotensins II and III was recently discovered in brain membranes in the presence of the sulfhydryl reactive angiotensinase inhibitor parachloromercuribenzoate. This binding site is distinctly different from the other known receptors for angiotensins: AT₁, AT₂, AT₄, and mas oncogene protein (Ang 1-7 receptor). Preliminary biochemical characterization studies have been done on this protein by crosslinking it with (125)I-labeled photoaffinity probes and solubilizing the radiolabeled binding site. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis studies and isoelectric focusing indicate that this membrane bound binding site is a protein with a molecular weight of 70-85 kDa and an isoelectric point of …

Introduction: Peacebuilding, Reconciliation, And Transformation, Jessica Senehi, Stephen Ryan, Sean Byrne

Peace and Conflict Studies

This introductory article in the special issue on Peacebuilding, Reconciliation, and Transformation highlights some of the central themes within the emergent field of Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS). The article discusses how this transdisciplinary field contributes to our understanding of some of the key issues that confront the PACS field in terms of analysis, theory building, and praxis. The contributors to this special issue provide a broad array of perspectives that explores conflicts and its transformation from a multidimensional perspective.

Rethinking Reconciliation: The Lessons From The Balkans And South Africa, Mitja Žagar

Peace and Conflict Studies

Reconciliation, described as coming to terms with the past, is considered an important component of normalization and development in post-conflict societies. The international community and some political elites promote it as a desired approach to (re)establishing trust and cooperation, ideally leading to clean slate situation, which might be possible only if all sides are fully committed to the process and unconditionally accept its outcomes. Reality, however, is often different. Exploring concepts, practices and experiences in the Balkans and South Africa the contribution studies successes, problems and failures of reconciliation. It attempts to rethink and re-conceptualize reconciliation and develop alternative approaches.

Volume 17, Number 1 (Spring 2010), Peace And Conflict Studies

Peace and Conflict Studies

No abstract provided.

“The Problem From Hell”: Examining The Role Of Peace And Conflict Studies For Genocide Intervention And Prevention, Paul Cormier, Peter Karari, Alka Kumar, Robin Neustaeter, Jodi Read, Jessica Senehi

Peace and Conflict Studies

Genocide is one of the most challenging problems of our age. In her book, “A Problem from Hell:” America and the Age of Genocide, Samantha Power (2002) argues that the United States, while in a position to intervene in genocide, has lacked the will to do so, and therefore it is incumbent on the U.S. citizenry to pressure their government to act. This article reviews how the topic of genocide raises questions along the fault lines of the field of Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS). In this article, a framework is provided to examine genocide and responses to it. This …

Localizing Peace: An Agenda For Sustainable Peacebuilding, Nathan C. Funk, Abdul Aziz Said

Peace and Conflict Studies

The sophistication of peace operations and complex humanitarian missions has increased in recent decades, resulting in increased international capacity to mitigate organized violence and provide relief to suffering populations. With respect to other indicators of success, however, international peace strategies still leave much to be desired. By their very nature, externally driven efforts tend to leave local actors feeling marginalized and disempowered, and unable to fulfill aspirations for cumulative and sustainable transformations in the quality of life. The peace that local populations genuinely hope for may fail to take root, and dynamics associated with interventionism may replace one set of …

Peacebuilding In Northern Ireland: The Past, Present And Future, Stephen Ryan

Peace and Conflict Studies

This article explores the reasons for the slow progress being made in the Northern Ireland peace process. It examines complications that exist in dealing with the past, present, and future of the conflict between the two main communities whilst also arguing that it is hard to separate these time frames in practice. In terms of the present, some well known difficulties with the consociational approach are identified. Recent studies have also demonstrated a failure to address sectarianism at the grass-roots level and there has been a resurgence in activity by spoilers and rejectionists. When thinking about the future the two …

The Ground They Walk On: Photography And Narrative Inquiry, Diane Ketelle

The Qualitative Report

In this project, the author explores a novel variation on an established social science research method, photo-elicitation. The author photographed eight school principals during a two-year period and asked the principals to respond to the photographs by writing narratives below each. The author uses photography, reflections, and her own memories to construct descriptive narrative snapshots of the eight principals. Further, the author argues that this approach underscores how photographs are both technically and socially constructed and through the use of photo-elicitation new ways of understanding self and others in relation can be explored.

Legislative Decision Making On Education Issues: A Qualitative Study, Kathy Canfield-Davis, Sachin Jain

The Qualitative Report

The purpose of this descriptive, single case study was to provide knowledge and insight about state education policy-making, specifically, the process by which education-related bills pass through a legislature. This study was also designed to identify factors of influence shaping legislative decision-making as perceived by lawmakers and observers of the legislative process. Sources of evidence included interviews, direct observation, archival records, public records documentation, and tape recordings of committee meetings and Senate floor sessions. Results show that a bill's fate is subject to many planned and unplanned sequential steps, and to a collection of diverse personalities that drive the legislative …

A Hockey Night In Canada: An Imagined Conversation Between Theorists, Curtis Fogel

The Qualitative Report

In this paper, various methodological issues surrounding the sociological study of sport are explored. Through an imagined dialogue between two graduate students at a hockey game, this work brings together three divergent approaches to social enquiry: Positivist Grounded Theory, Constructivist Grounded Theory, and Actor-Network Theory. This paper challenges conventional writing on method in two ways: (a) assembling three divergent approaches within a single work, and (b) employing a scripted narrative as a means of exploring methodological issues. Through this innovative approach, many of the overlaps and tensions between these theories/methods are captured. In so doing, numerous methodological questions about the …

Art As Inquiry: A Book Review Of Being With A/R/Tography, Nicole Manry Pourchier

The Qualitative Report

In this essay, the edited anthology, Being with A/r/tography (Springgay, Irwin, Leggo, & Gouzouasis, 2008) is reviewed in regard to its relevance to visual arts research. Art is presented as a method of inquiry as theory, dialogue, and a/r/tographic works are shared within a community of practicing arts-based researchers. This text offers insight into the possibilities of the arts as active and perceptive modes of inquiry.

Collage Life Story Elicitation Technique: A Representational Technique For Scaffolding Autobiographical Memories, Gertina J. Van Schalkwyk

The Qualitative Report

A basic premise in narrative therapy and inquiry is that life story telling is a mechanism by which experiences are rendered meaningful within some form of structure. However, narrative inquiry has to take cognisance of difficulties ensuing from discursive practices for different populations when eliciting their life stories. In this article I explicate a unique method, the Collage Life story Elicitation Technique (CLET), geared towards scaffolding life story remembering. Based on the theoretical underpinnings of social constructionism (Gergen, 2000), symbolic interactionism (Berg, 2009) and performative strategies in social science research the CLET provides a mode of expression and narrative performance …

Innovative Data Collection Strategies In Qualitative Research, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, Nancy L. Leech, Kathleen M.T. Collins

The Qualitative Report

This article provides an innovative meta-framework comprising strategies designed to guide qualitative data collection in the 21st century. We present a meta-framework comprising strategies for collecting data from interviews, focus groups, observations, and documents/material culture. We present a template for collecting nonverbal data during interviews and discuss the concept of debriefing the interviewer. We identify types of data that can be collected in focus groups in addition to the actual statements made by the participants and provide templates for categorizing these data. Also, we outline the role that social networking websites can play in focus group interviews. Further, we provide …

A Meta-Summary Of Qualitative Findings About Professional Services For Survivors Of Sexual Violence, Donna S. Martsolf, Claire B. Draucker, Christina B. Cook, Ratchneewan Ross, Andrea Warner Stidham, Prudencia Mweemba

The Qualitative Report

Sexual violence occurs at alarming rates in children and adults. Survivors experience myriad negative health outcomes and legal problems, which place them in need of professional services. A meta-summary was conducted of 31 published qualitative studies on adults' responses to sexual violence, with a focus on survivors' use of professional services. Combined samples included 46 men, 984 women, and six couples who had experienced sexual violence at any point in their lives. Findings indicated that qualities of professional service providers and outcomes of professional services were perceived either positively or negatively (rather than neutrally) by survivors, regardless of the provider's …

From The Editors, Eric Mason, Andrea Shaw Nevins

Quadrivium: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Interview With Visual Artist Sophia Lacroix, Andrea E. Shaw-Nevins

Quadrivium: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Current Volume 20 : Issue 28, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

The Current Volume 20 : Issue 27, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Social Media On The Development Of Interpersonal Communication Skills, Annarely Rodriguez, Nichelle Farrington, Chelsea Seignious, Vittoria Santini

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Social networking sites, such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, are popular among young adults (defined as 18-29 year-olds), with 72% of individuals in this age group maintaining at least one profile (Lenhart, Purcell, Smith, and Zickuhr 2010). While a great deal of research has been conducted on the psychological effects of Internet interaction, little previous quantitative research has been conducted to determine how online socialization affects normative face-to-face interactions. This study aims to discover if social media influences the way college students interact and communicate interpersonally. The project will also investigate how this growing method of communication plays a role …

Synthesis Of Porous Organic Materials For Gas Storage Media, Reena Parikh

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The purpose of this research is to help synthesize porous organic materials as possible gas storage media. Moreover, experimentation and chemical reactions will assist in finding and producing products that will be porous. Their porous nature will enable them to hold a certain volume of gas, which is useful in science for drug delivery. Earlier experimentation for this same purpose has been discontinued, due to an inability to acquire the proper starting material. This earlier research involved a reaction to place an extra ring on the compound NBAIICuOAc. This molecule has two benzene rings, of which have shown to hold …

Investigating Potential Changes In Gene Expression For Yeast Cells Exposed To Pediatric Flu Vaccine With And Without Thimerosal, Christie Rubio

Undergraduate Student Symposium

As a control, gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Baker's yeast) grown in standard YEPD media (normal growth conditions) was assessed using microarray technology and reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Subsequently, yeast were grown in a typical dose of pediatric flu vaccine both with and without thimerosal preservative as experimental treatments. RNA from cells in each environment was extracted using the Ambion RiboPure Yeast Kit. RNA quality and quantity was assessed using gel electrophoresis, and UV spectrophotometry. The mRNA within the sample (about 1% of total RNA) was isolated by creating complementary DNA (cDNA). The presence and relative quantity of …

When Natural Isn't Good Enough, Dana Dunham

Undergraduate Student Symposium

In the late 1800s, Madame C.J. Walker invented hair straightening products for African American women. Her products allowed women of color to fit the standardized notion of beauty (i.e., have long straight hair). In the early 21st century we continue to see women of color straighten their hair and engage in other beauty rituals in order to mirror their white-skinned counterparts. The U.S. film industry has always focused on beauty. Image has been the key role in casting female characters. Is she tall enough? Is she thin enough? Is her hair long and straight enough? Is she light enough? These …

Com Outlook Spring 2010, College Of Osteopathic Medicine

COM Outlook

No abstract provided.

A Unified Theory Of International Law, The State, And The Individual: Transnational Legal Harmonization In The Context Of Economic And Legal Globalization, James D. Wilets

Faculty Scholarship

This Article presents an original theory of international law which reconciles the norm-making processes occurring at the international, state, and individual levels. It is the central thesis of this paper that economic globalization is not happening in a vacuum, but it is rather engendering legal globalization, much in the way that centralized regulation followed trans-state economic globalization within the United States and Europe.

Traditional definitions of international law do not address this phenomenon and consider these new forms of transnational norm creation as simply exceptions to the general rule that international law is created by nation-states within the framework of …

Spring 2010, Graduate School Of Humanities & Social Sciences

CAHSS Graduate SGA Dialogues

No abstract provided.

Curriculum Mapping: Bringing Evidence-Based Frameworks To Legal Education, Debra Moss Curtis, David M. Moss

Faculty Scholarship

This article explains the concept of curriculum mapping as used in the education profession and explains how it was applied in a mapping initiative at the NSU Law Center. Curriculum mapping is a process by which education professionals “document their own curriculum, then share and examine each other’s curriculums for gaps, overlaps, redundancies and new learning, creating a coherent, consistent, curriculum within and across areas that is ultimately aligned to standards and responsive to student data and other initiatives.” While this process has been used for many years in other areas of education, it is fairly new to legal education. …