In The News April and Early May 2021

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This summary report is a snapshot of NSU media placements from April through early May 2021. The purpose of this recap is to keep you up-to-date on issues and media reports that involve the university and/or specific departments or centers. Click on the  name of the media outlet to read their story – stories that appeared out of the South Florida media market are in red (some links may have expired after this page was created.)

For this time period:

• Potential Reach (print and broadcast audiences) of stories related to NSU were circulated to approximately 120.4 million;
  • For Unique Visitors Per Month (online audiences globally), the potential viewership was approximately 2.5 billion;
• The estimated advertising value equivalency (AVE) of  these stories is $5.7 million.

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University Wide

• Florida’s Higher Ed Bill Ads Tuition Breaks, Lawsuit Protections
  • CBS 4 (4/7/21), Orlando Weekly (4/7/21), Florida Trend (4/8/21)
• Top Colleges in the South for Diversity
  • The Wall Street Journal (4/14/21)
• In-Person Graduations Are Back for Most Colleges. There are Restrictions, Of Course.
  • Miami Herald (4/19/21)
• Senior-Level Hires and Promotions: Michael Mominey
  • South Florida Business Journal (4/29/21), Miami Herald (5/3/21);

Vaccine Announcement – Part 1

On Thursday, April 1, NSU announced plans to return to in-person classes for Fall 2021. To facilitate the successful transition to the pre-pandemic style of learning, NSU also announced that students, faculty and staff would need to be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 by August 1 (with exemptions for medical and deeply held religious beliefs). The following is the coverage of the announcement:

National & International Media

University Business (4/2/21) US News & World Report (4/2/21) Herald Mail Media (4/2/21) PBS (4/2/21) New York Post (4/2/21) Bloomberg (4/3/21) MSN (4/4/21) Daily Mail (4/4/21) Insight Into Diversity (4/5/21) Politico (4/5/21) Boston Globe (4/6/21) Inside Higher Ed (4/5/21) Chronicle of Higher Education (4/6/21) IBL News (4/6/21) New York Times (4/6/21) Chicago Tribune (4/6/21) New York Times (4/7/21) USA Today (4/7/21) Forbes (4/7/21) New York Daily News (4/7/21) Financial Review (4/7/21) Yahoo! (4/7/21) Detroit Free Press (4/7/21) CNBC (4/7/21)

CNN (4/7/21) Inside Higher Ed (4/8/21) CBS News (4/8/21) Washington Times (4/8/21) MSN (4/8/21) Chicago Tribune (4/8/21) University Business (4/8/21) CNN (4/8/21) Japan Times (4/9/21) The Daily Iowan – University of Iowa (4/9/21) WKRC Cincinnati (4/4/21) Real Clear Education (4/5/21) Epoch Times (4/6/21) Insider (4/6/21) Frequent Business Traveler (4/6/21) The Hill (4/6/21) Deccan Herald (4/7/21) Amed Post (4/7/21) The Pajaronian (4/7/21) Zero Hedge (4/7/21) Omaha World Herald (4/8/21) The Albany Herald (4/9/21) The Daily Iowan (4/9/21)

WOBM (4/12/21) Business Journal Daily (4/12/21) NBC New York (4/12/21) The Westerly Sun (4/12/21) New York Post (4/9/21) CNN (4/9/21) International Business Times (4/10/21) USA Today (4/10/21) The Diamondback – University of Maryland (4/10/21) The Heights – Boston (4/11/21) One News Australia (4/12/21) Inside Higher Ed (4/12/21) ZEE News – India (4/12/21) Hindustan Times – India (4/12/21) KTAR – Boston (4/12/21) The Manilla Times (4/12/21) Wichita Eagle – Kansas (4/12/21) Teen Vogue (4/12/21) PBS (4/12/21)

Local (South Florida) Media

CBS4 Miami (Ch. 4) (4/2/21) NBC6 Miami (Ch. 6) (4/2/21) NBC6 Miami Ch. 6) (updated story)  (4/2/21) WSVN Miami (Ch. 7) (4/2/21) WPLG Miami (Ch. 10)  (4/2/21) WPTV – NBC5 W. Palm Beach  (4/2/21) FOX29 – Palm Beach (4/2/21) CW34 – Palm Beach (4/2/21) ABC25 – Palm Beach(4/2/21) Sun-Sentinel (4/2/21) Miami Herald (4/2/21) 99.3 FM – iHeart Radio (4/2/21)

Y100 FM – iHeart Radio (4/2/21) WIOD – 610 AM (4/2/21) WLFA News Radio (4/2/21) Boca Raton Tribune (4/6/21) Sun Sentinel (4/8/21) CBS4 Miami (4/9/21) Palm Beach Post (4/9/21) Miami Herald (4/12/21) WLRN (4/12/21) WPLG Miami (4/12/21) Miami Times (4/13/21) Sun Sentinel (4/15/21) University Press (5/3/21)

  Out of Market Florida Media

Tampa Bay Times (4/9/21) WKMG News 6 Orlando (4/6/21) Fox 13 Tampa Bay (4/12/21) Florida News Times (5/5/21) Tampa Bay Times (5/5/21) Orlando Business Journal (5/4/21) WFLA (5/5/21) News 6 Orlando (5/5/21) Tallahassee Democrat (4/29/21) WFLA (4/29/21) ABC Tampa (4/29/21) Florida News Times (4/29/21) Gainesville Sun (4/23/21) Florida Phoenix (4/19/21) Florida News Times (4/12/21)

FOX13 – Tampa Bay (4/2/21) FOX35 – Orlando (4/2/21) ABC7 – Fort Myers (4/2/21) NBC2 – Orlando (4/2/21) NewsJax4 – Ch. 4 Jacksonville (4/2/21) CBS6 – Orlando (4/2/21) WUSF – Tampa Bay (4/2/21) WUSF – Tampa Bay (updated story) (4/2/21) Tampa Bay Times (4/2/21) Florida News Digest (4/2/21) Florida News Times (4/8/21)

 

Vaccine Announcement – Part 2

On May 5, NSU announced that, due to a new Florida law, the university is unable to maintain the above intended a policy toward full vaccination by August 1, 2021. Therefore, we are NOT requiring vaccinations for NSU Florida students, faculty, and staff, as was announced back on April 1, before the legislation was passed. This information was disseminated to the media, with the following coverage:

Out of Market Media

Inside Higher Ed – List of COVID Policies by School (5/5/21); Yahoo News (5/6/21); World News Today (5/6/21); MSN (5/6/21); Bloomberg Law (5/7/21); Inside Higher Ed (5/6/21); The College Fix (5/6/21); The College Professor (5/6/21); Tampa Bay Times – NSU Specific (5/5/21);

Tampa Bay Times – Overview Story (5/5/21); Click Orlando/News Channel 6 (5/5/21); Orlando Business Journal (5/4/21);  FOX13 – Tampa (5/8/21); WFLA – Ch. 8 Tampa (5/5/21); WKMG – Ch. 6 Orlando (5/5/21);

South Florida Media

Sun-Sentinel (5/5/21); WLRN (5/5/21); NBC6 Miami (5/5/21); 850 WFTL – AM (5/6/21); NBC6 – Miami (5/8/21); The Miami Hurricane (5/5/21);

WSVN – Ch. 7 (5/5/21); CBS4 – Miami (5/5/21); WPLG – Ch. 10 (5/5/21); Miami Herald (5/5/21); Florida News Times (5/5/21)

Alan B. Levan | NSU Broward Center of Innovation

• Can South Florida Leap Into The Space Industry? Here’s a New Idea to Help Lure Business, featuring John Wensveen, Ph.D.
  • Sun Sentinel (4/2/21), The Current (4/6/21)
• Money & Tech Round Up: New Crowd Funding Rule Could Be A Game Changer for Start Ups and More, featuring John Wensveen, Ph.D.
  • South Florida Business Journal (4/5/21)
• Vice Mayor Michael Udine Shares County Update with Parkland Residents
  • Parkland Talk (5/1/21), Tamarac Talk (5/1/21)
• As Businesses Flock to South Florida, Is Fort Lauderdale Falling Behind in Attracting Them?
  • Sun Sentinel (5/3/21)
• All of South Florida is Poised to be the Next Tech Hub Driving Innovation, featuring John Wensveen, Ph.D.
  • Miami Herald (5/6/21)

Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine

The following stories feature Deborah Ann Mulligan, M.D., FAAP, FACEP

• Vax Facts 
  • WIOD (4/5/21)
• Testing For Peace of Mind
  • WIOD (4/13/21)

 

• Florida Passes 3,200 COVID-19 Variant Cases, Far More Than Any Other State, featuring Bindu Mayi, Ph.D., M.Sc.
  • WPLG – Ch. 10 Miami (4/6/21)
• Community Dental Health Coordinator Program Celebrates 15 Years of Bringing More People into the Oral Health System, featuring Claudia A. Serna, Ph.D., DDS, MPH, MCHES, CPH
  • ADA News (4/9/21)

Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences

• Breathing is Their Specialty. How Respiratory Therapists Became Critical During Covid, featuring Roger Plummer
  • Miami Herald (4/30/21)

College of Pharmacy

• Provider Perceptions of Pharmacists in Primary-Care Based Accountable Care Organizations
  • The American Journal of Accountable Care (4/7/21)

Ron and Kathy Assaf College of Nursing

• Nursing Students Gain Valuable Experience at Vaccination Sites
  • South Florida Times (4/19/20)

College of Optometry

• American Diabetes Association, VSP Vision Care and Regeneron Team Up For Round Table About Covid-19 Impact on Those with Diabetes, featuring Sherrol A. Reynold, OD
  • Vision Monday (4/30/21)

Halmos College of Arts and Sciences

• Study Finds Air Dryers Can Spread More Germs Than Paper Towels, featuring Robert Smith, Ph.D.
  • Healthline (4/3/21)
• The Wild Life Rescue Warriors Who Rule Fort Lauderdale
  • AFAR (4/7/21)
• The ‘Guardian’ Asks: Will Florida Be Lost to the Climate Crisis?
  • WJCT (4/13/21); WSUF (4/14/21)
• Fin-ders Keepers: Endangered Hammerhead Sharks Could Be Saved by Hi-Tech Trackers, Mahmood Shivji, Ph.D.
  • The Westside Gazette (4/19/21)
• ‘We Need These Reefs Health’: Rescue a Reef for Earth Day
  • CBS Miami (4/21/21)
• On the Water: Public Can Track the Migration of Mako, Whale Sharks to Aid in Research
  • The Coastal Star (4/27/21)
• Migration of a Pregnant Hammerhead Shark Documented from Space
  • Forbes (5/4/21)
• A Common Antibiotic Slows Mysterious Coral Disease
  • Science News (5/10/21)
• Top 10 Bizarre New Weather-Related Phenomena
  • Nation IK (5/9/21)
• NSU Researcher Part of Flag Ship Study on Vertebrae Genomes, featuring Stephen O’Brien Ph.D.
  • 7th Space (4/29/21), Technology Networks (4/30/21)
• Florida Plans to Kick Sea Turtle Groups off the Beach
  • Sun-Sentinel (5/8/21)

 

The following stories featuring Charles Zelden, Ph.D.

• Florida Labor Unions Say Proposal Will Lead to ‘Disaster’ for State Worker Pensions
  • Tallahassee Democrat (4/2/21)
• Congressman Alcee Hastings, After a Career of Triumphs, Calamity, and Comeback, Dies at 84
  • Miami Herald (4/6/21), Florida Courier (4/6/21), Daytona Times (4/6/21), CW 34 (4/6/21), WPEC (4/8/21)
• U.S. Rep Alcee Hastings, Longest Serving Member of Congress From Florida, Dies at 84
  • Chicago Tribune (4/6/21)
• No Special Election Date to Fill Hastings’ Seat, as Candidate List Grows
  • CW 34 (4/28/21), CBS12 (4/28/21); WPEC – Ch12 (5/4/21)
• Voting By Mail Becomes More Difficult in Florida
  • Yahoo News! (4/30/21), WFOR (4/30/21)
• Critics Slam New Vote by Mail Restrictions
  • CBS4 Miami (5/6/21)
• Charlie Crist’s Run for Governor
  • WLRN (5/6/21)
• Voters Will Soon See Major Changes When it Comes to Casting Ballots
  • CBS4 – Miami (4/30/21)

 

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice

• New Bethel Park Superintendent Planning for the Future, featuring alum James Walsh
  • TribLive (4/21/21)
• Andalusia Names New School Superintendent, featuring alum Daniel Shakespeare
  • WTVY – AL (4/30/21)

College of Psychology

• Kahler v. Kansas: So What Else is New?, featuring David Shapiro, Ph.D.
  • National Psychologist (4/13/21)
• The Importance of Mental Health Awareness, featuring Vincent Van Hasselt, Ph.D.
  • Caribbean Today (4/22/21)
• Are You a Worrier or a Warrior?, featuring Jamie Tartar, Ph.D.
  • Psychology Today (4/25/21)
• Dr. Scott Poland Partners with Navigate360 to Support Suicide Prevention and Awareness in Schools Across the Country, featuring Scott Poland, Ed.D.
  • Campus Safety (5/2/21)
• Sheriff Tony Discusses the Importance of Mental Health, featuring Vincent Van Hasselt, Ph.D.
  • Parkland Talk (5/1/21), Tamarac Talk (5/1/21)

• Course Design for Competitive Advantage, featuring Dean Andrew Rosman
  • AACSB Insights (4/6/21)
• Expert: President Biden’s 100 Day Economy, Slow and Steady, featuring Albert Williams, Ph.D.
  • NBC Miami (4/26/21)
• Margaret Brisbane First Woman and First Person of Color Appointed CIO of Miami Dade County
  • Jamacians.com (4/28/21)

 

College of Computing and Engineering

• MDC and NSU Announce New Agreement for Cyber Security Graduate Degrees, featuring Dean Meline Kevorkian
  • Miami Community Newspapers (4/20/21)

Shepard Broad College of Law

The following stories feature Robert Jarvis, LL.M, JD

• The Cruise Industry Reacts to Florida’s Lawsuit Against the CDC
  • Travel Pulse (4/8/21), Orlando Sentinel (4/8/21) Raw Story (4/9/21), Cruise Law News (4/9/21)
• DeSantis Sues CDC to Get Cruises Restarted
  • Miami Herald (4/8/21)
• Is Suing the CDC an Effective Way to Restart Cruising?
  • Travel Weekly (4/13/21)
• Nevada Regulators Praised for Tiering Worker Vaccines With Gaming Floor Occupancy
  • Casino.org (4/12/21)
• Understanding Social Media, the First Amendment and the Calls to Incite Violence
  • Forbes (4/22/21)
• Why All the Secrecy Over Runcie’s Indictment? Perhaps More Charges are on the Way
  • Sun Sentinel (4/23/21)
• New Debate Over Masks Trending on Social Media Following Rant by Tucker Carlson
  • Forbes (4/27/21)
• Did Political Pressure Lead to Runcie’s Arrest? What We Know and Don’t Know
  • Sun Sentinel (4/26/21)
• Facebook Banning Donald Trump Could Be Problematic, But Not a First Amendment Issue
  • Forbes (5/5/21)
• Deadly Threatening of Caesars Entertainment Attorneys Described as Unusual by Law Professor
  • Casino.org (5/5/21)
• Who Owns the Land Underwater
  • WPLG – Ch10 (5/6/21)
• New Compact Grants Seminoles Clout In Florida, And That’s Nothing New For Influential Tribe
  • US Bets (4/30/21)
• Sports Betting Will be Legal In Florida by NFL Kick Off
  • Gaming Today (4/27/21); Sun-Sentinel (4/22/21)
• Why all the secrecy about Robert Runcie’s indictment? Maybe more charges are on the way
  • Sun-Sentinel (4/23/21)

• Balancing Public Health with Economic Health, featuring Richard Grosso, J.D.
  • Soul of Miami (4/8/21)
• Environment Enforcement Tool Still Stymied by Trump Regulation, Joel Mintz, J.D., J.S.D., LL.M.
  • Bloomberg Law (5/5/21)
• Coral Gables elects Rhonda Anderson, Kirk Menendez in commission runoff
  • Miami Herald (4/27/21)

Alvin Sherman Library

• ‘Alive Forever’: Visitors Can Virtually Speak with Holocaust Survivors at NSU Library Exhibit
  • WPLG (4/1/21),  NBC 6 (4/1/21), MSN (4/3/21)
• Students Honored for Holocaust Reflection Contest Entries
  • Yahoo! News (4/22/21), Sun Sentinel (4/22/21)

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale

• Lemme Walk Across the Room: A Peek Into the NSU Art Museum’s Newest Exhibit
  • The Current (4/6/21)
• In Miami, a Sculpture Built to Live In
  • The New York Times (5/4/21)
• Community and Entertainment Calendar of Events
  • Sun-Sentinel (5/7/21)

NSU Athletics

• With Dan Marino’s Son as Coach, NSU’s Golf Team Hoping for National Title
  • Miami Herald (5/3/21), Golf Digest (5/5/21)