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Reproductive Justice Activist Loretta Ross Joins Yale Nursing as Visiting Professor

Fri, 10/04/2024
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) is pleased to announce the appointment of Loretta J. Ross as visiting associate professor for the 2024-2025 academic year. Professor Ross is a reproductive justice and human rights activist who has reframed reproductive rights within the broader context of human rights...

Author and Health Equity Advocate Daniel Dawes Joins the Yale School of Nursing as a Presidential Visiting Fellow

Wed, 09/04/2024
We are delighted to announce that Daniel E. Dawes, an internationally recognized leader in the health equity movement and scholar on the political determinants of health, will join the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) as a Presidential Visiting Fellow for the 2024-25 academic year. Dr. Dawes joins YSN...

Yale Alumni Magazine Profiles 10 Nurses and Midwives

Yale Alumni Magazine cover
Tue, 09/03/2024
By Dylan Walsh ’11 MEM The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) admitted its first students in February of 1924. Their classrooms and offices were located in a space on the top floor of 310 Cedar Street, near where the School of Medicine housed animals that were used for experimentation.  The modesty of...

The Year in Review: 2023 - 2024

The Year in Review: 2023 - 2024
Thu, 08/29/2024
From the Dean: When I arrived at Yale School of Nursing (YSN) in August 2023, I was honored to kick off the celebrations for our centennial. YSN began making history in 1923 as the first school within a university to prepare nurses under an educational rather than an apprenticeship program, and...

Yale Nursing Orientation Leaders Give Expert Advice on Clinicals, Self-Care, and Apizza

Thu, 08/22/2024
Yale School of Nursing (YSN)’s new nursing and midwifery students streamed through the front door for the first day of orientation on August 21, and they are prepared to ask a lot of questions. Here to answer them are the Orientation Leaders (OLs), a squad of current students who are excited to...