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Yale Nursing Alumni Share Advice for the Class of 2024

Mon, 05/13/2024
Preparations are currently underway for Yale University’s 323rd commencement, a tradition that includes splendid pageantry, meticulously planned tulip patterns, and a cloud of confetti streaming down onto the apricot velvet hoods of Yale School of Nursing (YSN) graduates. In preparation for the...

4 YSN Students Earn Prizes at Health Professions Creative Writing and Art Contest

Fri, 05/10/2024
Four Yale School of Nursing (YSN) students took top prizes in prose and poetry and earned honorable mention status at the 2024 Program for Humanities in Medicine (PHM) Health Professions Creative Medical Writing and Art Contest. Recipients were honored on May 2 at the Child Study Center in New...

Yale Nursing Welcomes Healthcare Equity Advocate Ben Danielson as Commencement Speaker

Dr. Ben Danielson
Wed, 05/08/2024
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) is delighted to welcome Dr. Ben Danielson, professor of practice at the University of Washington, as the 2024 commencement speaker at the diploma ceremony. “Nurses are the backbone of healthcare, and I am honored to address the next generation of Yale’s nurse and...

Nurses in Action: Hass ’24 MSN and Manbauman ’25 MSN Accompany Dr. Sadak to Capitol Hill

(Left to right) Craig Manbauman ’25 MSN, Deputy Dean Tatiana Sadak, and Bar Hass ’24 MSN, recently engaged with legislative staff on healthcare policy.
Tue, 04/23/2024
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Family Nurse Practitioner students Bar Hass ’24 MSN and Craig Manbauman ’25 MSN swapped their scrubs for Capitol Hill clothes when they accompanied Deputy Dean Tatiana Sadak, PhD, PMHNP, RN, FAAN to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Advocacy Hill...

Pediatrics Lecturer Elyse Borsuk ’90 MSN (1961 – 2024)

Tue, 04/02/2024
With profound sadness, Yale School of Nursing (YSN) shares the news of the passing of Elyse Borsuk ’90 MSN, CPNP-PC, APRN, a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner specialty faculty member. Professor Borsuk died suddenly on March 31 due to a severe acute illness. “Elyse served the YSN community for many...

YSN Student Captains Winning Team at Global Health Competition

Mon, 04/01/2024
By Fran Fried Members of a team from the Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH) pose with judges after winning the prestigious Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition. From left: judge Phil Jacobs of Pendleton Consulting; judge Susan Maloney, MD, of the Centers for Disease Control and...

Creative Writing Awards Judges Include Pulitzer Winner Quindlen

Fri, 03/15/2024
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) is delighted to announce the four judges of the Creative Writing Awards (CWA): Centennial Edition, which is collecting poetry and prose entries through March 25. Anna Quindlen Quindlen won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992 for her New York Times column “Public...

Yale School of Nursing Centennial Trivia Winners Announced, Answers Revealed

Wed, 03/13/2024
Hundreds of people participated in the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) centennial trivia quest, drawing interest from undergraduates, graduate students across the university, alumni from almost every professional school, members of the general public, and staff in a wide variety of roles. Two winners...

New Yale Faculty, Including Dean Emami, Receive Honorary Master of Arts Degrees

Dean Azita Emami recently received an M.A. privatim degree.
Fri, 03/08/2024
Yale leaders awarded Master of Arts, privatim degrees to more than 90 members of the university community during a ceremony at Yale Law School’s Levinson Auditorium on March 4. The M.A., privatim is an honorary master’s degree granted to Yale faculty members promoted to full professor, senior...

YSN in the Media: H.I.V. Expert Nelson Discusses Decline in Condom Use

Wed, 02/28/2024
Associate Dean for Global Affairs & Planetary Health LaRon E. Nelson, PhD, RN, FNP, FNAP, FNYAM, FAAN, recently spoke to The New York Times for “A Fading Weapon in the H.I.V. Fight: Condoms” by Benjamin Ryan. The article shares the some H.I.V. experts worry that the focus on prevention has...

YSN Hosts 100+ Future Nurses and Midwives for Admitted Students Day

Tue, 02/27/2024
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) welcomed more than 100 future nurses and midwives to Admitted Students Day on February 2, excitedly cramming the common areas for the largest in-person admissions preview event since before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. “We are thrilled to bring such a talented...

Yale School of Nursing and University of Tokyo Forge Global Collaboration

Wed, 02/21/2024
By Sohani Sirdeshmukh Program Manager, Office of Global Affairs and Planetary Health   Yale School of Nursing (YSN) is pleased to announce a bold new collaboration with the University of Tokyo. This global partnership aims to reshape the landscape of nursing education through cross-cultural...

Dean Emami Pens Op-Ed with Yale Schools of Public Health and Medicine

Tue, 01/30/2024
Dean Azita Emami, PhD, MSN, BSN, RNT, FN, FAAN, in collaboration with Dean Megan L. Ranney at the Yale School of Public Health and Deputy Dean for Education Jessica Illuzzi at the Yale School of Medicine, has written an opinion editorial in The Hartford Courant about the “Bipartisan Workforce Pell...

Yale Nursing Launches Spring Centennial Semester with Trivia Quest

The centennial trivia contest concludes on February 29. Follow YSN on social media for trivia hints.
Tue, 01/23/2024
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) is launching the second semester of centennial celebrations with an online trivia quest that begins today. Anyone curious about the school’s 100-year history in the nation’s most trusted profession is welcome to learn more and enter for the chance to win one of two...

Exhibition Honors School of Nursing’s First Century — and Looks Forward

Thu, 12/14/2023
An exhibit at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library looks at Yale School of Nursing’s first century across eight themes. By Mallory Locklear A medical bag for GEPN students. (Photos by Rob DeSanto) A new campus exhibition recounts many of the notable contributions made by Yale School of Nursing, a...

A Centennial Conversation with Filmmaker Tonya Lewis Lee

Tonya Lewis Lee (left) with Dr. Michelle Telfer
Fri, 12/08/2023
Award-winning filmmaker, author, and entrepreneur Tonya Lewis Lee recently engaged in a special centennial conversation with the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) midwifery faculty, tracing her journey in making the documentary film “Aftershock” about the Black maternal mortality crisis in the United...

Once an experiment, Yale School of Nursing begins its second century

Thu, 11/09/2023
By Mallory Locklear | YaleNews At a recent School of Nursing centennial kickoff event, President Peter Salovey and Dean Azita Emami discussed the state of nursing and where to go next.   Yale School of Nursing Dean Azita Emami, President Peter Salovey, and Rajiv Shah, president of the...

Golden Anniversary for Yale Nursing’s Distinguished Alumni Awards

Wed, 11/01/2023
The 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award and Decade Awards saluted four years of winners. Amid the excitement of centennial kickoff programming, Yale School of Nursing (YSN) also celebrated a golden anniversary: 50 years of the Distinguished Alumni Awards. The first recipients were drawn from classes...

Yale Talk Podcast Celebrates YSN Centennial

Fri, 10/27/2023
President Peter Salovey and Dr. Nicole Seagriff   In commemoration of the Yale School of Nursing’s centennial and Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Dr. Nicole Seagriff joins President Peter Salovey for a conversation about YSN’s contributions to the field of nursing, the Community Health Center’s...

Capturing the Spirit of 100 Years

Wed, 10/25/2023
By Lisa M. Maloney | YourYale   Photos by Robert DeSanto. The curators of the exhibition celebrating Yale School of Nursing Centennial; (L-R) Courtney Brombosz, Janene Batten, Melissa Grafe.   An exhibition highlighting the impact and evolution of Yale School of Nursing (YSN) over the last 100...