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Headlines | Briefly | From
the Deans Desk
The Future is in Our Hands
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Nancy Fugate
Woods
Ph.D, R.N., F.A.A.N.
Dean and Professor |
Dear Friends of the School of Nursing,
Thank you for your generous support of the School of Nursing
this year, and for your continued support. Your contributions
have provided the catalyst for the kind of activities that make
us a top-ranked school. They support our vision of the future.
By providing financial assistance to both undergraduate and
graduate students, you have lessened the burden on our committed
students, many of whom work long hours while mastering a complex
curriculum. Contributions to the Citizens
of the World scholarship fund have helped over 100 students
immerse themselves in diverse cultures around the world as they
contribute needed health-care services. Other students travel
to Chiang Mai University in Thailand to learn about such global
health-care issues as HIV/AIDS prevention or the impact of an
aging population.
By endowing centers of excellence within the School, you have
acknowledged that the future grows from the present. A contribution
from the de Tornyay family endowed the Center
on Healthy Aging, attracting young students to the study
of their elders in our society and ways that nursing can help
them preserve their health and independence. An endowed professorship
honoring members of the Aljoya family who perished in the Holocaust
has enabled Margaret
Dimond, Aljoya Endowed Professor in Aging, to begin revisions
of both the undergraduate and graduate curriculum to enhance
students’ understanding of aging and to prepare nurse practitioners,
whatever their specialty, to care for their oldest patients.
Through the endowed Spence Professorship in Nursing, Kathryn
Barnard is able to bring together students, educators and
researchers from nursing and beyond to develop the knowledge
needed to care for infants at high risk for mental health problems.
Gifts to the Center for Infant Mental Health that Barnard founded
and now directs have supported our shared vision of hope for
the future. This year we enrolled the first cohort of students
in our graduate certificate program in infant mental health,
a unique cross-disciplinary effort founded on years of nursing
research about infants and their parents.
Your generosity is an investment in the future, and will help
us create a better world. The effects are seen in the faces
of our students, the enthusiasm of our faculty and the dedication
of our many colleagues who are working with diverse communities
to improve health care for all.
Thank you for making this investment, and for continuing your
support in the year ahead.
Nancy Fugate Woods
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