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Dr. Nancy Redeker to become Chair-Elect of the Council for Advancement of Nursing Science

Fri, 09/29/2017
In October, Dr. Nancy Redeker, the Beatrice Renfield Term Professor of Nursing, will become the Chair-Elect of the Council for Advancement of Nursing Science (CANS), the leading group for nursing research in the U.S. With a mission of “promoting better health through nursing science”, CANS aims to...

Martha Swartz receives Alumnae Award for Excellence from Case Western Reserve University

Fri, 09/29/2017
Congratulations to Dr. Martha Swartz, Professor of Nursing and Chair of the Primary Care Division at YSN, who will be honored with the Alumnae Award for Excellence on October 7 from Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing in Cleveland, Ohio. The award recognizes...

YSN Librarian honored with the Nurses Choice Award

Wed, 09/27/2017
Earlier this month, Janene Batten – Yale School of Nursing’s resident librarian – was honored by the Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) system with the Nurses Choice Award. It was presented by the YNHH Nurses Awards Committee for her tireless work supporting the nursing profession. A ceremony was...

Dr. Maggie Holland receives an R15 Academic Research Enhancement Award from the National Institute of Nursing Research

Sun, 09/24/2017
Dr. Maggie Holland, Associate Research Scientist at Yale School of Nursing, has been awarded an R15 Academic Research Enhancement Award, from the National Institute of Nursing Research. This competitive award provides partial salary support and funding for research activities for two years. Dr....

Postdoctoral fellow receives grant to explore diurnal patterns of people with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Fri, 09/22/2017
Dr. Samantha Conley, a postdoctoral fellow at Yale School of Nursing, has been awarded a grant from the American Nurses Foundation. This award will support Dr. Conley’s work on obtaining foundational data to understand diurnal patterns of activity-rest rhythms, dim-light melatonin onset (DLMO),...

Dr. Veronica Barcelona receives a K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award

Wed, 09/20/2017
Dr. Veronica Barcelona, Assistant Professor at Yale School of Nursing, was awarded a K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award, from the National Institute of Nursing Research. This competitive award provides salary support and funding for research activities for three years. Dr. Barcelona...

Dr. Wei-Ti Chen awarded an R03 grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

Wed, 09/20/2017
Dr. Wei-Ti Chen awarded an R03 grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Dr. Wei-Ti Chen, Associate Professor at Yale School of Nursing, was awarded an R03 grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. This competitive award provides...

Notes from Woodbridge Hall: Research for the World

Mon, 09/18/2017
Over the past several weeks we have witnessed—and some of us have experienced firsthand—the destructive, awful power of natural disasters. Harvey and Irma have battered the Gulf Coast, the Caribbean, and the eastern seaboard of the United States. Now residents are struggling to rebuild and regain...

Spotlight on YSN Alumnus Tamanna Rahman

Mon, 09/11/2017
In a new series by the Minority Student Nurses (MSN) we will be shining the spotlight on Yale School of Nursing alumni who come from underrepresented, marginalized and non-traditional groups in advanced practice nursing. The first interview of this series is with Tamanna Rahman (YSN ‘16), PMHNP-BC...

YSN faculty present at Dublin symposium

Fri, 09/01/2017
Jackie Taylor organized and presented a symposium on Psychological Stress and Multi-Omics Interactions on Health Disparities among African Americans at the Sigma Theta Tau International Research Congress in Dublin, Ireland this past July, based on the work from her R01 funded InterGEN study. New...