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Dean's Monthly Communication: February 2007

Message from Dean Woods
The recent large gift from Jean and Bob Reid of an endowed deanship for UW SoN is cause for celebration for the whole school. This gift will have a significant effect on our capacity to recruit our next dean and give our new leader some capital to invest in new initiatives for SoN. The permanence of this gift also ensures our ability to sustain excellence long after many of us retire.

Many have asked how we were fortunate enough to receive this gift. Certainly our extremely effective campaign efforts played a role. More important, though, was the excellence of our academic programs, research and service. Each of us who participates in these efforts deserves to share in celebrating this achievement for our corporate good. Thank you!
—Nancy Fugate Woods, PhD, RN, FAAN

Campaign UW: Creating Futures
$2 Billion and Counting
As of Jan. 26, Campaign UW reached its $2 billion fund-raising goal. That's two years ahead of schedule! Here at SoN, we reached our $24 million goal last September. Now we have the opportunity to raise additional funds to meet remaining needs, including substantial support for student scholarships. One of the University's-and SoN's-highest priorities is the Students First campaign, which will help ensure that any qualified student who otherwise could not afford our tuition will be able to attend the UW. To achieve that goal, Campaign UW will work to raise another $500,000 before the campaign officially ends in June 2008.

To find out more about the latest phase of the campaign, visit the UWeek site.
To learn more about Students First, visit the Office of Development and Alumni Relations site.

New Grant Awards
Please join me in congratulating the following faculty for receiving new grant awards.

Barbara Cochrane, assoc. prof., Dept. of FCN
Project: University of Washington Center for Interdisciplinary Geriatric Research
Sponsor: Rand Corporation

Fran Lewis, the Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Endowed Professor, Dept. of FCN
Project: When Mommy or Daddy Get Cancer: A Cancer Parenting Program
Funder: Lance Armstrong Foundation

Rebecca Logsdon, assoc. prof., Dept. of PCH
Project: Dementia Specific Exercise Program
Sponsor: Department of Social and Health Services

Students
Emalee Danforth, a second-year graduate student in the nurse midwifery program, received the 2006-2007 Eleanor C. Lambertson Fund scholarship, awarded by Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. As part of the NIH Roadmap T-32 Clinical Research Training Program, she is conducting research about the origins and impact of maternal separation anxiety, and her faculty advisor is Cathryn Booth-Laforce, the Charles and Gerda Spence Endowed Professor in Nursing. Find out more about Emalee on the Nurses Educational Funds Web site.

International Scholars
Visiting Scholars
Eun-Young Jeon arrived Daegu Hanny University, Korea in Seattle on February 2, 2007, and is working with Doris Bountain, assoc. prof., Dept. of PCH.

On February 21-23, Noel Chrisman, prof., Dept. of PCH will host Hiroko Komatsu, Kiyomi Asahar and Maki Umeda from St. Luke's College of Nursing in Japan.

Faculty
CIMHD Welcomes New Leaders
On Jan. 23, Professor Susan Spieker and Research Professor Jean Kelly from the Dept. of Family and Child Nursing were officially appointed director and co-director, respectively, of the Center on Infant Mental Health & Development. Together, they will fill the position held by Professor Emerita Kathryn Barnard, who founded the center in 2001 and served as its first director until her retirement in June 2006. We sincerely thank Dr. Barnard for her visionary leadership of the center.

SoN in the News
Angela Mathis, a first-year FNP student, appeared on the front page of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Jan 23, 2007, providing care for the homeless at Aloha Inn. Angela volunteers with other health sciences students at a weekly clinic at this transitional housing site.

Joanne Solchany, asst. prof., Dept. of FCN, advises parents on how to keep the holiday season stress free for themselves and their children, especially babies, on this December 9, 2006, KING 5 News special. Watch the video online.

Sally O'Neill, MN '91, PhD '04, co-authored a letter to the editor in the January 28, 2007, edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer called "Society suffers unless all kids are cared for." In it, she and co-author Cheryl Felak, R.N., discuss the importance of giving all children access to health care, regardless of whether their status in the United States is legal or undocumented.

Carolyn Webster-Stratton, prof., Dept. of FCN, was featured in the January 29, 2007, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Local section for her research on aggressive behavior in children ages 3 to 8. Titled "She understands the kids who bring their parents to their knees," the article credits her with demonstrating that ".these children can be helped, and [Webster-Stratton] dreams of the day when parents and educators are as attuned to developing emotional skills as academic skills."

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