Have you been teaching here at DUSON for at least two years? Do you have an educational project you have been meaning to investigate? Do you need some financial support to study that innovative teaching strategy you have implemented? Have you been wanting to do a QI study on a teaching methodology? If you answered yes to any of those, then an IEE Educational Grant may be just the thing! The IEE Grants are one year in length, with awards from $250 - $2,500 to complete a project or study.

Have you been teaching for at least two years? At DUSON for at least a year? Is there an aspect of your teaching you would like to improve, innovate, or change? Do you want to strengthen your Scholarship of Teaching? Do you want to develop your expertise as an educator? Then, maybe its time to apply for an IEE Teaching Fellowship! This is a two-year fellowship that enables fellows to develop their skills as an educator through the science of nursing education or pedagogical inquiry.

Assistant Professors Amie Koch and Jacqui McMillian-Bohler led the Duke University Health System Clinical Education annual Friends of Nursing seminar on October 29 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m..

Susan Little, consulting associate and DNP'17, has been named the North Carolina Nurses Association (NCNA) 2020 Health Systems Nurse of the Year. Little will be honored during the Awards Luncheon at the 2021 NCNA Annual Convention on September 23.

Susan Little, consulting associate, has been appointed to the Public Health Nursing (PHN) journal's editorial board.

The Journal of The National Black Nurses Association has accepted the manuscript "Factors associated with self-reported hypertension among Black women" to which Stephanie Ibemere, postdoctoral fellow, contributed. The manuscript is in press.

This study was supported by the University of Cincinnati, College of Nursing’s Dean’s Research Award.

Kudos to Ryan Shaw, associate professor, and Matthew Crowley, of the School of Medicine and their entire team for the submission of their NIH R01 application entitled: "EXpanding Technology-Enabled, Nurse-Delivered Chronic Disease Care (EXTEND)." This proposal requests funding for a five-year period with a start date of July 1, 2021.

Kudos to Isaac Lipkus, professor, and his entire team for the submission of their NIH R01 application entitled: "Exploring the Implementation and Initial Effects of a Stepped-care Approach to Promote Physical Activity among Physically Inactive Breast, Colorectal and Prostate Cancer Survivors." This proposal requests funding for a three-year period with a start date of 9/1/2021.

Good News! Kudos to Isaac Lipkus, professor, and his entire team for the submission of their NIH R01 application entitled: "Facilitating and reactions to family communications to promote colon cancer screening among first degree relatives with a family history of advanced adenomas: A test of the FamilyTalk online tool." This proposal requests funding for a three-year period with a start date of 9/1/2021.

Marybeth Tetlow, MSN '17, of Duke Cancer Institute, was highlighted in Julie Poucher Harbin's "Bowman & Tetlow Among 'Great 100' NC Nurses" article for the Duke Cancer Institute's website.