Mark your Calendars for Upcoming Grant Deadlines:
February 1, 2017: Collaborative Research Travel Grants - The Collaborative Research Travel Grant (CRTG) program provides up to $15,000 in support for relatively unrestricted travel funds to academic…
Good nutrition and overall wellness play an important role when taking on a rigorous course load such as that of nursing students. CNA Classes has partnered with experts in the fields of nutrition, fitness and overall wellness at major universities including Ohio State University, Ohio…
Nursing Students Without Borders along with Curamericas Global offers nursing students an alternative spring break and an opportunity to jumpstart your nursing degree!
Join DUSON for a service learning trip to Guatemala during March 10 - 19, 2017 for spring break. During the trip, students…
PhD student Joyell Arscott was selected to receive the 2017 Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring from the Duke University Graduate School. A committee of graduate deans, faculty and graduate students selected Arscott from a highly competitive pool of nominees to receive the award,…
Debra Brandon was selected to receive the 2017 Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring from the Duke Graduate School. A committee of senior deans and students representing the major disciplines of the Graduate School selected Brandon from a highly competitive pool of nominees to receive the award…
Jennifer Dungan received pilot grant funding for her study entitled "Female-specific genomic risk score prediction of acute coronary syndrome: a pilot study" from the Precision Health Collaborative Grant RFA. She will work with collaborators Dr. Xuejun Qin from computational biology…
PhD student Ashlee Vance and her mentor Debra Brandon were awarded a $2,500 grant from the Florida Association of Neonatal Nurses. The grant will support Vance's dissertation project investigating how parents develop confidence in caring for their infant who have a complex chronic condition.…
Ryan Shaw recently published a letter to the editor entitled "Wearable Technology and Long-Term Weight Loss" in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The article was co-authored by Corrine Voils, PhD, with Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Staff members Angie Keith and Julie Cusatis were selected for the 2017 Duke Leadership Academy. The academy offers emerging leaders from across the university the opportunity to participate in a unique 12-month development initiative based on teh Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics…
Marilyn Oermann provided the education lecture entitled "Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship: What Competencies do you need?" for the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing Lectureship series.
She was also the keynote speaker at the New Hampshire Board of Nursing Day of Discussion…
U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) released its 2017 rankings of the best online graduate nursing programs, and Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) is recognized as the third best program in the United States as well as the third best program for veterans.
“We are fully committed to…
All members of the Duke Medicine community are invited to attend an ongoing series of discussions called the Schwartz Center Rounds about the human side of patient care. Schwartz Center Rounds is a monthly interdisciplinary conference that offers all of us from no matter which discipline as…
DUSON will celebrate the life of colleague and friend, Dr. Sharon J. Hawks, on Sunday, January 22. In preparation, we are creating a tribute video for the events taking place this day.
If you have a photo of Dr. Hawks that you would like to share for the tribute video, please email the…
Kudos to Michael Relf and his entire team for the submission of their multi-PI, subcontract proposal with the Medical University of South Carolina entitled “A multi-site RCT of a stigma reduction intervention for HIV-infected women." This proposal requests funding for a five-year period with a…
Each summer, DukeEngage relies on the involvement of graduate students and young professionals to help coordinate logistics in many of its DukeEngage group programs. The program is currently recruiting site coordinators for summer 2017.
The DukeEngage Site Coordinator Application 2017 is now active…
DUSON was recently featured in an article entitled "Robots Designed To Help Nurses, Not Replace Them" in Diversity Nursing. Click here to read full article.
Duke community members and the public are invited to Duke University's annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration events. The annual program will link King's civil rights legacy to activism in the arts and architecture.
Various include:
Jan. 16 // 100,000 meals packaged…
The Center for Nursing Research presents the Duke Community Connections and Collaborations Core (C4). The core strives to be a national leader in facilitating equitable, authentic, and robust community engaged research for community and population health improvement. Its mission is to promote…
The newly constructed Duke Student Wellness Center opened its doors to students Tuesday, Jan. 10, on the corner of Towerview and Union, next to Penn Pavilion on Duke’s West Campus.
At this time, Student Health on the second floor and Counseling and Psychological Services…
With a new semester beginning, comes an opportunity for you to join DUSON in meeting our goal of becoming the most fit school of nursing in the nation.
How can you join? Each semester, teams of faculty, staff and students will virtually race together to get DUSON to one of our…
The Chancellor’s Service Fellowship is a one-year interdisciplinary, mentored fellowship program focused on health-related community service and leadership development.
The Fellowship program is designed to provide health services to underserved populations by facilitating opportunities for…
DUSON is continuing to advance the support of our people and environment as part of the strategic plan implementation. An important element of the People and Environment focus has been increasing transparency of decision making with staff and faculty.
One of the implementation teams, led by…
A huge thank you goes out to the entire DUSON community who collected more than 400 caps/hats for children who are undergoing cancer therapy at Duke and UNC.
Congratulations to Margie Molloy who graciously and generously donated 124 caps for the campaign. Molloy won two tickets to a Duke Men's…
It is with a heavy heart that we share that Sharon Hawks, DNP'10, CRNA, Duke University School of Nursing associate professor and director of the Nurse Anesthesia Program, passed away earlier this week after an extended illness.
Sharon joined the Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) faculty…
Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda published an article entitled "Advancing Nursing Science Through Community Advisory Boards: Working Effectively Across Diverse Communities" in the December issue of the Advances in Nursing Science. Other co-authors include experts from the University of Massachusetts, Adelphi…