Look Back: Centennial Celebration
Yale School of Nursing Centennial Celebration
September 2023 – May 2024
Yale School of Nursing is the world’s first academic, autonomous school of nursing. Since 1923, we have been home to the first female dean at Yale University, the first professor of psychiatric nursing in the world, and the first psychiatric master’s degree program in the United States. Our graduates continue to set the standard in clinical care, research, and professional accomplishment. We are on call for humanity. We are Yale Nurses.
Recent Centennial Events:
April 1 & 2, 2024 - Peking University School of Nursing: Partnership Celebration
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Description: Yale School of Nursing is proud to host a two-day visit from a faculty delegation from the Peking University School of Nursing.
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Date: April 1 & 2, 2024
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Location: 400 West Campus Drive, Orange, CT 06477
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April 11, 2024 - Centennial Faculty Lectures: Current mHealth Limitations and Future Directions
A brown bag lecture series featuring YSN faculty who are experts on a wide range of topics impacting the health of our communities. Each lecture will take place from 12:00pm – 1:00pm at YSN. Beverages and dessert will be provided.
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Speaker: Zhao Ni, PhD, BMedSci, RN
Topic: Current mHealth Limitations and Future Directions
Description: In this talk, we’ll delve into the current landscape of mobile health (mHealth) and explore the challenges it faces. From technological constraints to user engagement hurdles, we’ll dissect the limitations that have shaped the application of mHealth. After we uncover these roadblocks, our gaze will shift towards the future directions that promise to revolutionize the field. Join us on a journey through the present challenges and future innovations that may redefine healthcare and nursing.
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 12:00 to 1:00 pm
Location: YSN Room 11701 | 400 West Campus Drive, Orange, CT 06477
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April 24, 2024 - Creative Writing Awards: Centennial Edition Ceremony
Creative Writing Awards: Centennial Edition Awards Ceremony! Hear each of our three winners make us laugh, cry, and think as they read their work aloud.
Additional details will be shared on this page as soon as they are available.
Open to all YSN students: on campus and online
In every specialty and across every degree program
$1,000 cash prize to each of the three winners
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March 25 - Submission Deadline
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April 24 - Awards Ceremony
Sponsored by YSN Centennial, YSN Development & Alumni Relations, and SGO
Centennial Videos
Check Out How YSN Kicked Off Our Centennial Year
Watch a Centennial Conversation with Filmmaker Tonya Lewis Lee
Watch Centennial Day Panel Discussion Highlights
Centennial Faculty Lectures:
A brown bag lecture series featuring YSN faculty who are experts on a wide range of topics impacting the health of our communities. Each lecture will take place from 12:00pm – 1:00pm at YSN. Beverages and dessert will be provided.
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Speaker: Zhao Ni, PhD, BMedSci, RN
Topic: Current mHealth Limitations and Future Directions
Description: In this talk, we’ll delve into the current landscape of mobile health (mHealth) and explore the challenges it faces. From technological constraints to user engagement hurdles, we’ll dissect the limitations that have shaped the application of mHealth. After we uncover these roadblocks, our gaze will shift towards the future directions that promise to revolutionize the field. Join us on a journey through the present challenges and future innovations that may redefine healthcare and nursing.
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 12:00 to 1:00 pm
Location: YSN Room 11701 | 400 West Campus Drive, Orange, CT 06477
Past Centennial Events:
September 20, 2023: Centennial Day (faculty, staff, students)
Current YSN faculty, staff, and students are invited to join in an afternoon of celebration. There will be food, games, entertainment and prizes. Please save the date and plan to join us to honor 100 years of YSN!
September 21, 2023: Centennial Kickoff Panel Discussion at the Yale School of Nursing
Join us for a conversation with Dean Azita Emami, Yale President Peter Salovey, and Rockefeller Foundation President Rajiv Shah.
Event Location: Yale School of Nursing—400 West Campus Drive, Orange, CT 06477 *
*Please note that space is limited. If you join us in person on West Campus, we will also be offering hosted viewing rooms to accommodate more people. The event will be livestreamed for remote viewing as well.
Event Date & Time: Thursday, September 21, 2023. 1:00pm—3:30pm
Registration is now closed.
September 21, 2023: Alumni Welcome Gathering
Event Location: Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library—Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT, 06510
Event Date & Time: Thursday, September 21, 2023. 4:00-6:00pm
Registration is now closed.
September 22, 2023: YSNAA All-Alumni Reunion at the Yale School of Nursing
Enjoy alumni panels and tours of YSN throughout the day. A happy hour will be held in the afternoon.
Event Location: Yale School of Nursing—400 West Campus Drive, Orange, CT 06477
Event Date & Time: Friday, September 22, 2023. 8:00am—5:30pm
Click here to learn more | Registration is now closed.
September 23, 2023: Distinguished Alumni Awards
Distinguished Alumni Award and Decade Award winners from 2020-2023 will be honored at this year’s ceremony.
Event Location: Maurice R. Greenberg Conference Center—391 Prospect St, New Haven, CT 06511
Event Date & Time: Saturday, September 23, 2023. 9:00am-12:30pm
Registration is now closed.
October 19, 2023: Centennial Lecture Series Begins
Join us for the first in our Centennial Lecture Series, a program of talks featuring YSN faculty who are experts on a wide range of topics impacting the health of our communities.
YSN Faculty Speaker: Associate Professor S. Raquel Ramos, PhD, MBA, MSN, FNP, FNYAM, FAHA
Topic: Approaches to cardiovascular health in diverse and marginalized individuals with HIV: Lessons learned and implications for future research.
Location: Room 11706 at Yale School of Nursing
Date & Time: October 19, 2023 | 12:00pm – 1:00 pm
Beverages and dessert will be provided.
November 1, 2023: Centennial Lecture Series: VA Research: Empowering Innovation and Impacting Lives
Speakers:
Joan Combellick, PhD, MPH, MSN, CNM, FACNM
Shelli Feder, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, ACHPN
Dora Lendvai, PhD, MSN, RN
Julie Womack, PhD, CNM, FNP-BC
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Date & Time: November 1, 2023 | 12:00pm – 1:00 pm
November 2, 2023: A Centennial Conversation with Filmmaker Tonya Lewis Lee
August 18, 2023 - January 21, 2024 - Centennial Exhibit
An exhibition celebrating Yale School of Nursing Centennial (1923-2023)
This exhibit has now closed, but you can read about it here.
YSN’s core mission is “better health for all people.” As we celebrate YSN’s 100th anniversary, we take this opportunity to explore and reflect on the school’s first century. Highlights of this exhibition include the assessment that helped found YSN as a completely new model of nursing education; the immense growth and change across the student population and faculty; the innovative methods of pedagogy and research inside and outside the classroom; a long tradition of community and global service; and a glimpse of the school today.
Cushing Rotunda
Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library
333 Cedar Street
New Haven, CT 06510
Curated by: Janene Batten, Ed.D., MLS, Courtney Brombosz, MLS, and Melissa Grafe, Ph.D.
February 7, 2024: Making Nurses’ Voices Heard: Bedside to the Boardroom | Centennial Faculty Lecture Series
Centennial Faculty Lecture Series
In this lecture, Yale School of Nursing Associate Professor Deena Kelly Costa will review the significant impact nurses and nursing have made in health care as it relates to patients, practice, and policy. She will describe areas of opportunity for the future and highlight how all members of the nursing community can leverage their voices to enact change and improve care for the patients and communities we serve.
February 8, 2024: Spring YSN Centennial Conversation “The Political Determinants of Health” with Daniel E. Dawes | A Black History Month Event
YSN-ODEIB Better Health for All Speaker Series
February 29, 2024: YSN Centennial Online Trivia Quest
Trivia Answer Sneak Peeks
- Instagram: @YaleNursing
- X (formerly Twitter): @YaleNursing
- Facebook: @Yale School of Nursing
- LinkedIn: @Yale School of Nursing
March 25, 2024 - Submission Deadline for Creative Writing Awards: Centennial Edition
All YSN students in every specialty and degree program are invited to share the stories of their nursing journey by submitting poetry or prose to the Centennial Edition of the Creative Writing Awards. As YSN celebrates the 21st year of this proud tradition, we are also excited to welcome online MSN student participation for the first time!
Submissions are due Monday, March 25, by 11:59 pm. A panel of judges will blindly assess the entries and choose three winners, each of whom will receive a cash prize of $1,000.
The awards ceremony will take place on the evening of Wednesday, April 24, and the winners will read their work aloud. There will be no charge to attend this event. Additional details regarding awards ceremony registration will follow shortly.
Every student at YSN has something valuable to say about the nation’s most trusted profession, and all participants are encouraged to make readers laugh, cry, and think. Please see below for contest details, and best of luck!
Writing Prompts
- Where do you think YSN should go in the next 100 years?
- Share a story from your clinical experience that you want students to learn from over the next 100 years.
- Reflect on an experience from any point in your nursing journey.
Before You Submit, Want a Second Opinion?
Discuss your draft with a Graduate Writing Lab fellow.
Schedule a one-on-one consultation here: https://yale.mywconline.net
Submission Criteria
- Each entry must be no longer than 2 pages.
- Each entry must be original work not published previously in any form.
- Poetry and prose are welcome.
- Each student is welcome to enter multiple pieces.
- Past winners are eligible to submit new work.
Enter To Win
- Email subject line: CWA 2024 Submission.
- Please send two attachments of each piece in a single email to ysn.communications@yale.edu: one that is scrubbed of identifying information (blinded) and one that includes your name, email address, phone number, the title of your piece, and the prompt you are using.
To read the work of past winners, visit Creative Writing at YSN.
Questions?
Reach out to the Communications Team at ysn.communcations@yale.edu.
Sponsored by YSN Centennial, YSN Development & Alumni Relations, and SGO