News and Events
Innovative School-Based Center Opens in Snow Camp
June 6, 2013 | In Dean Kristen Swanson, Faculty, News
The waiting room of Sylvan Community Health Center. In response to the need for primary care services in rural North Carolina, the UNC School of Nursing has partnered with Piedmont Health, a nonprofit federally-qualified health center, and the Alamance-Burlington School System (ABSS) to open the first school-based and nurse-managed health center in Alamance County, a center that will serve both the school campus and the surrounding community.
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The American Cancer Society Awards Four Scholarships to SON Students
June 6, 2013 | In Education, News, Students
From left to right: Lori Walker, Melissa Matson, Sean Gallagher, and April Lenker.
Four UNC School of Nursing students have been awarded American Cancer Society Graduate Scholarships in Cancer Nursing Practice. The recipients are Sean Gallagher, RN; April Lenker, RN; Melissa Matson, RN; and Lori Walker, RN.
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Celebrate National Nurses Week
May 6, 2013 | In Education, Events, News
Every year, a week in May is dedicated to National Nurses Week, a time when people across the country recognize the hard work and dedication of nurses in their communities.
SON Junior Awarded Class of 1938 Travel Fellowship
May 2, 2013 | In Education, Global Health, News, Students
BSN student Leonora Tisdale was awarded a $5,000 fellowship to travel to spend her summer at a health clinic in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Deborah Mayer Declared Extraordinary Nurse Leader By Yale University
May 1, 2013 | In Faculty, News Tags: Deborah Mayer
Associate professor Deborah Mayer, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN has been selected as an Extraordinary Nurse Leader by Yale University, the first independent university-based nursing school established in the United States.
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Leslie Sharpe Named a Duke-Johnson and Johnson Nurse Leadership Fellow
April 30, 2013 | In Faculty, News Tags: Leslie Sharpe
Leslie Sharpe, FNP Clinical instructor Leslie Sharpe, FNP-BC, was recently selected to be one of the first fellows in the Duke-Johnson and Johnson Nurse Leadership program.
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Insight Magazine Features Rumay Alexander and Pamela Rowsey
April 29, 2013 | In Faculty, News, SON Media Coverage Tags: Pamela Rowsey, Rumay Alexander
Director of Multicultural Affairs G. Rumay Alexander, EdD, RN, and associate professor Pamela Johnson Rowsey, PhD, RN were highlighted in a feature article for the April/May issue of Insight Into Diversity magazine.
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Sam Deal Receives Two Prestigious SON Awards
April 23, 2013 | In News Tags: Sam Deal
At an end of the year celebration in the Fox Lobby, facilities manager Sam Deal was awarded both the Outstanding Staff of the Year Award and the H.O.P.E. Award.
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Linda Cronenwett Receives Prestigious Award from Eastern Nursing Research Society
April 19, 2013 | In Faculty, News Tags: Linda Cronenwett
Beerstecher-Blackwell Term Professor and former Dean Linda Cronenwett, PhD, RN, FAAN, was one of twelve recipients of the Sustained Influential Leader Award, one of the highest honors given by the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS).
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The SON Celebrates Nursing Research and the 2013 Honors Scholars
April 19, 2013 | In Events, News, Research, Students
At a reception held in the Fox Lobby on Thursday, April 18, student researchers shared their projects with the SON community. The event recognized Sigma Theta Tau research scholars as well as undergraduate students who will graduate in 2013 with Honors or Highest Honors.
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