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ACHIEVEMENT
NSU marked three major milestones in the last two months!
- NSU leaped 16 spots to land on U.S. News & World Report's Top 200 list of national universities.
- NSU announced an unprecedented $50 million gift by the Patel Family Foundation to name two colleges: Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine and Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences.
- NSU’s College of Allopathic Medicine (M.D. College) recently received “Preliminary Accreditation” from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. NSU is now allowed to accept an inaugural class of 50 students into its innovative Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) program, which will matriculate in August 2018.
More than 240 donors contributed to the NSU Cares Fund to help students, alumni and employees who are in need of assistance following Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. NSU has made five mission trips with support from Dr. Patel. Use of his plane and connections allowed NSU to deliver over 10,000 lbs. of food, supplies, and satellite phones, as well as key personnel. Once onsite, NSU staff were able to expedite repairs and technology networks to get the university’s Puerto Rico campus back on line.
In October, more than 244 donors supported
NSU cancer research initiatives
, including
pediatric cancer
. The first fund to support scholarships for our brand new M.D. students was established. Donors also endowed a Head Coaching Position in Speech and Debate at NSU University School and a Women’s Success Series at Huizenga College; provided audiology supplies for a mission trip to Nicaragua; created new Changing Lives Scholarships; and more.
In Advancement and Community Relations, we are focused on growing support and appreciation for the university through alumni relations, community relations, donor relations, development, and special events organized on behalf of NSU President Dr. George Hanbury. It is our charge, privilege, and pleasure to do everything in our power to help Dr. Hanbury and NSU’s Board of Trustees advance NSU from where it is, to what it wants to be for generations to come.
We are powered in large part by philanthropists like you!
Sincerely,
Jennifer
Vice President for Advancement and Community Relations
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FOR OUR STUDENTS
- Golfers helped raise over $225,000 for student athlete scholarships at NSU’s 2017 Golf Classic.
- Specialized psychological services will continue to be provided to children and adolescents (ages 3-18) thanks in part to a bequest made by Luanne Schaefer to the Sun-Sentinel Fund benefiting the Children’s Trauma Clinic operated by NSU’s College of Psychology.
- NSU Fort Myers campus physician assistant students founded Project S.E.E.D. (Serving Everyone, Embracing Diversity) in 2010. That legacy lives on thanks to donors like Community Foundation of Collier County.
- Speaking of Physician Assistant students, Dr. Harvey Feldman's Changing Lives Scholarship supports students choosing this pathway at Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences.
- NSU prides itself on offering a distinguished graduate school experience, and enrollees in any program at this level will be able to apply for the new Dan and Lonnie Maier Changing Lives Scholarship.
- Gifts by the Irving and Dorothy Rom Charitable Foundation and The Farver Foundation in honor of recently retired Dr. Lenore Walker are part of a scholarship fund benefiting College of Psychology graduate students.
- Graduate research assistants can spend more time working and learning in the NSU Neuropsychology Assessment Center thanks to funding by Dr. Charles Golden.
- ECOncrete Inc. funded a scholarship to support master's theses at NSU’s Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography conducting biodiversity research experiments using concrete mats. The research is a part of an Israel-US BIRD Foundation R&D project in collaboration with Besser Company.
- College of Nursing students can apply to the William D. Gilliland Changing Lives Scholarship established in his memory by Kim Cronin, a 15-year and counting member of the NSU Office of Institutional Effectiveness.
- Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine students can apply to The Kesselman Family Changing Lives Scholarship established by Drs. Marc and Robin Kesselman in honor of Ruth and Bernhard Garfinkel, and Max and Shirlie Kesselman.
- Advisory Board members to NSU’s College of Engineering and Computing are making gifts to the Emerging Technology Scholarship Fund. Donors include Peter Moore; A.C.R. Electronics for Gerry Angeli; Barry & Judy Silverman Foundation for Paul Bianco; Lennar Corporation for Dr. Shawn Harris; Florida Power & Light for Manny Miranda; Aspire Real Estate Development, LLC for Sean Lin; and KB Electronics for Thomas Dalton.
- Christine Kircher and Cynthia Gross created the Steven and Rosemary Kircher Scholarship Fund in honor of their parents to support scholarships for students pursuing a Doctor of Allopathic Medicine degree.
- Heidi Alzate created the Alzate-Dunnuck Family Changing Lives Scholarship to support the university's greatest need, allowing the recipient focus to change each year, accordingly.
- Alumna Melanie Baker made a bequest in honor of her late husband and fellow alumnus Donald Baker to NSU's H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship.
- NSU University School is positioned to gain an endowed Head Coaching Position for Speech and Debate thanks to a foundational pledge by Eric and Robyn Pintaluga. The endowed signature position will be a touchstone for a new, sustainable academic infrastructure.
- In-kind donations can be key. Francine Kaplan donated a piano to NSU’s College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Hear the World Foundation provided $60,000 worth of supplies for the audiology student mission trip to Nicaragua. CAE Healthcare discounted a Human Patient Simulator by $125,000 for NSU’s Anesthesiologist Assistant program.
FOR OUR FACULTY
- Friends are supporting research for Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), commonly referred to as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). The modeling fund initiated by Trustee Ron Assaf and his wife Kathy is supported by several additional donors, including Peter and Susan Brockway, Jane Houk, Jack Jaiven, James and HJ Lineberger, Christine Lynn, Sandra Parker, Plumbing Experts, Inc., John and Carolyn Ray, Barry & Judy Silverman Foundation, and Robert Sonneborn.
- Community Foundation of Broward funded an NSU’s College of Pharmacy grant to evaluate a compound for treatment of brain cancers. The Foundation is also supporting beach nourishment and sea turtle conservation initiatives through NSU’s Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography.
- NSU Levan Ambassadors Board member Rick Latta made a planned gift for the Law Dean’s Excellence Fund.
- Apotex is funding the Apotex Scholars program through the Dean’s Excellence Fund at NSU’s College of Pharmacy.
- NSU’s Shepard Broad College of Law received a gift for faculty development from the Estate of David Shapiro.
FOR 21st CENTURY EDUCATION
- A renewed gift allows NSU’s Alvin Sherman Library to continue promoting lifelong literacy through the Erwin and Barbara Mautner Charitable Foundation Read for the Fun of It initiative.
- Jason Taylor Foundation is supporting the library’s Young Authors Workshop.
- Carnival Cruise Lines and Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council are supporting the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force Sponsorship Fund, and Healthy Aquatics Marine Institute is supporting applied research in Marine Larval Ecology through NSU’s Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography.
- The following donors have joined presenting sponsor AutoNation in supporting NSU Art Museum’s 60th Anniversary: WSVN Channel 7 as media partner, and John Knox Village.
- Kapila Family Foundation is helping underserved children gain access to NSU Art Museum’s rich programming and experiences delivered through Museum on the Move.
- New exhibition sponsors for Frank Stella: Experiment and Change include: S. Donald Sussman and Michelle Howland as hosts and presenting sponsors for the Frank Stella Dinner, plus David Horvitz and Francie Bishop Good, and Sandra Muss.
- Jessica Olefson and Leigh and Deborah Kerr dedicated seats through the “Make a Lasting Impression” seat dedication campaign in the Norma and William Horvitz Auditorium as part of the Museum’s 60th Anniversary.
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November 12, 2017 - July 8, 2018
From the Collection of Neal Asbury
October 18, 2017 - January 31, 2018
Saturday, January 27, 2018
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