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Released: 8-Jul-2024 2:05 PM EDT
NSU Offers High-Schoolers Immersive Med School Camps
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Nova Southeastern University’s Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine is holding two medical school summer camps for academically strong high school students interested in careers in the health professions on NSU’s Davie Campus from Monday, July 8, through Friday, July 19.

   
Newswise: NSU Researcher Helps International Team Create Plan to Protect the Biodiversity of U.S. Waters
Released: 19-Feb-2024 9:05 AM EST
NSU Researcher Helps International Team Create Plan to Protect the Biodiversity of U.S. Waters
Nova Southeastern University

Studying the world’s oceans can be difficult – an NSU researcher lead a team that is working to do just that.

Newswise: Extreme Temperature Stress Proving Disastrous on Southeast Florida’s Coral Reefs
Released: 4-Aug-2023 9:45 AM EDT
Extreme Temperature Stress Proving Disastrous on Southeast Florida’s Coral Reefs
Nova Southeastern University

Thanks to extremely high ocean temps, coral reefs are dying like we've never seen before. Research scientists are doing anything and everything to help - it's a race against time.

Newswise: Watch the Fastest Fish in the World Hunt its Prey – For the First Time
Released: 10-Feb-2023 9:45 AM EST
Watch the Fastest Fish in the World Hunt its Prey – For the First Time
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Thanks to researchers at NSU’s Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI) who designed a novel electronic tag package incorporating high-tech sensors and a video camera, we now have for the first time, a detailed view of exactly how sailfish behave and hunt once they are on their own and out of view of the surface.

Newswise: NSU Sea Turtle Turns Prognosticator, Predicts Winner of Super Bowl LVII
Released: 10-Feb-2023 9:35 AM EST
NSU Sea Turtle Turns Prognosticator, Predicts Winner of Super Bowl LVII
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Forget Punxsutawney Phil and his shadow - Nova Southeastern University has Captain the Sea Turtle and her Shell - and she's predicting the future!

   
Newswise: Major Breakthrough As Scientists Sequence The Genomes Of Endangered Sharks
Released: 4-Jan-2023 10:05 AM EST
Major Breakthrough As Scientists Sequence The Genomes Of Endangered Sharks
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Scientists have sequenced the genomes of Critically Endangered great hammerhead and Endangered shortfin mako sharks for the first time.

Newswise: New Research on Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria May Be A Step Toward New Treatments for Infections
Released: 16-Dec-2022 8:05 AM EST
New Research on Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria May Be A Step Toward New Treatments for Infections
Nova Southeastern University

Antibiotic resistant bacteria pose of the greatest threats to global public health. New research has the potential to reduce the amount of antibiotics used in the clinic and may pave the way for the discovery of new antibiotics that change growth rate and energy levels in bacteria.

   
Newswise: NSU Professor Honored with The Explorers Club Prestigious Lowell Thomas Award
Released: 10-Oct-2022 9:25 AM EDT
NSU Professor Honored with The Explorers Club Prestigious Lowell Thomas Award
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Nova Southeastern University (NSU) is proud to announce that one of its own – Stephen J O’Brien, Ph.D. – was honored with The Explorers Club’s 2022 Lowell Thomas Award.

Newswise: First-Ever Stand Alone International Dental Program Starting in Florida
Released: 13-Sep-2022 11:05 AM EDT
First-Ever Stand Alone International Dental Program Starting in Florida
Nova Southeastern University

NSU, working with Tampa Bay cardiologist and philanthropist Dr. Kiran C. Patel, is establishing a first-ever, stand-alone program for International Dental Students

Newswise: Insight into Roundup® Weed Killer’s Neurological Impact – Collaborative Lab Makes Dramatic Findings
Released: 23-Aug-2022 8:05 AM EDT
Insight into Roundup® Weed Killer’s Neurological Impact – Collaborative Lab Makes Dramatic Findings
Nova Southeastern University

Taking research to the next step, a new study shows that Roundup® weed killer may have new dangers

   
Newswise: NSU Researchers Use First-of-its-Kind Tracking Sensors to Study Billfish
Released: 11-Aug-2022 10:40 AM EDT
NSU Researchers Use First-of-its-Kind Tracking Sensors to Study Billfish
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Researchers at NSU’s Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI) used high-tech sensors to track billfish – and now we now have, for the first time, a detailed view of exactly how these fish behave after they are caught and released.

Newswise: NSU Researchers Studying Algae Blooms – New Findings Discussed in Science Magazine
Released: 12-Jul-2022 10:05 AM EDT
NSU Researchers Studying Algae Blooms – New Findings Discussed in Science Magazine
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They are bluish-green, stinky and yucky. We’re talking algae blooms, that phenomenon that happens in waterways around Florida. And since 2019, researchers at Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Halmos College of Arts and Sciences have been studying them with the primary goal to find out why they occur. Their research may lead to new ways of helping address blooms when they occur or help prevent them in the first place.

Newswise: NSU Research Scientist and Shark Expert Working on International Study of Silky Sharks
Released: 5-Jul-2022 9:55 AM EDT
NSU Research Scientist and Shark Expert Working on International Study of Silky Sharks
Nova Southeastern University

Tracking silky sharks has revealed them to be swift swimmers. But they’re also one of the most heavily fished sharks globally. Will expanded marine protection in the Tropical Eastern Pacific go far enough to protect these long-distance swimmers?

Newswise: NSU’s on-Shore Coral Nursery Expanding Its Role
Released: 20-Jun-2022 1:30 PM EDT
NSU’s on-Shore Coral Nursery Expanding Its Role
Nova Southeastern University

Back in 2019, research scientists at Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Halmos College of Arts and Sciences joined forces with colleagues on an ambitious project to save at-risk corals. As that project has progressed, NSU is now making its coral nursery available for other similar projects.

Newswise: Nova Southeastern University Associate Professor Receives Special Grant for Eye Research
Released: 14-Jun-2022 2:30 PM EDT
Nova Southeastern University Associate Professor Receives Special Grant for Eye Research
Nova Southeastern University

NSU Associate Professor Roger Wing-Hong Li, Ph.D., receives a $100,000 RPB Walt and Lilly Disney Award for Amblyopia Research. Since it was founded in 1960, RPB has channeled more than $397 million into eye research. RPB has been identified with nearly every major breakthrough in vision research in that time.

Newswise: New NSU Health Neuroscience Institute to be Headed by Dr. Eduardo Locatelli
Released: 11-Mar-2022 8:05 AM EST
New NSU Health Neuroscience Institute to be Headed by Dr. Eduardo Locatelli
Nova Southeastern University

New Neuroscience Institute to Focus Research on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, and will treat patients with other neurological conditions, including epilepsy, seizures and Alzheimer’s Disease

Newswise: Nova Southeastern University Experts Leading Team Tackling Major Florida Challenges
Released: 1-Mar-2022 9:15 AM EST
Nova Southeastern University Experts Leading Team Tackling Major Florida Challenges
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NSU Researcher Leading Project to Create Interdisciplinary Teams of Faculty From Across Florida to Focus on a Florida-Based Challenges

Newswise: Nova Southeastern University Researcher Earns Coveted Grant to Study Ocean Contaminants
Released: 22-Feb-2022 9:35 AM EST
Nova Southeastern University Researcher Earns Coveted Grant to Study Ocean Contaminants
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Newly proposed research will test the effects of UV light exposure on chemical contaminants



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