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Yale Nursing's Malerba ’15 DNP Will Make History as First Native American US Treasurer

Lynn Malerba ’15 DNP (left) helps drape President Barack Obama in a blanket at the White House Tribal Nations Conference in 2016. Photo credit: Pete Souza.
Thu, 06/23/2022
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) alumnus Dr. Marilynn “Lynn” Malerba ’15 DNP will make history as the first Native American to serve as Treasurer of the United States, and when her signature appears on the nation’s currency, it will be the first inked by a Tribal leader and Native American woman. Dr....

Yale Nursing Honors Essential Partners: Preceptors

GEPN Preceptor of the Year Winner Peggy Sawyer (third from right), was cheered on at the ceremony by students she has precepted.
Tue, 06/21/2022
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) saluted preceptors in every specialty and the Graduate Entry Prespecialty in Nursing (GEPN) program at the 4th Annual Preceptor Appreciation Day and award ceremony on June 10. The celebration honored the unique role of preceptors in nursing: these clinicians volunteer...

YSN Welcomes In-Person Guests To Celebrate the Class of 2022

The Class of 2022 released confetti and silly string on Old Campus.
Thu, 06/16/2022
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) celebrated Commencement for the Class of 2022 on Old Campus and a diploma ceremony on school grounds on May 23. And for the first time in three years, in-person festivities included a huge tent packed with hundreds of guests. As Dean Ann Kurth ’90 MSN, PhD, CNM MPH,...

Midwifery Student Wins TedxNewHaven Competition with Maternal Mortality Speech

Ashleigh Evans
Fri, 06/10/2022
Nurse Midwifery/Women’s Health student Ashleigh Evans ’23 MSN placed first in the graduate student division of the TedxNewHaven competition and will make her winning presentation on June 11 at the Shubert Theater. High school, college, and graduate students from across the state were invited to...

Yale Nursing Celebrates 2022 Delta Mu Honor Society Inductees

Sigma lobo
Wed, 06/01/2022
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) gathered to celebrate the newest class of the Delta Mu chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau International Society of Nursing on May 19. In her remarks, Dean Ann Kurth ’90 MSN, PhD, CNM, MPH, FAAN, briefly described three challenges facing the inductees: the climate crisis,...