Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
When the University of Pennsylvania named then-Yale Provost Judith Rodin its president in December of 1993, much was made of the fact that a woman had finally risen to the top post at an Ivy League school. “I think it’s about time,” Rodin said at the time. Yale pointed out that it had already had a female president. Hanna Holborn Gray, after all, had served as...
An increase in applications does not always spell steady enrollment, and the Yale School of Nursing is embracing this fact. Staff reporters Raymond Carlson and Florence Dethy investigate. As the decline in Yale’s endowment continues to affect budgets across the University, the Nursing School is crafting a conservative budget for the coming year, in case...
Last December, when Saybrook dining hall manager John Morris was setting up for a holiday dinner, he knew immediately which of his employees could turn a simple arrangement of tables and decorations into a work of art: Pamela Dear. Quiet and modest, Dear brings an artistic eye to her work as pantry worker and desk attendant in Saybrook dining hall, where she has been...
The Yale School of Nursing has purchased the building in which it currently resides, creating permanent housing for the historically mobile institution. Officials from the Nursing School Office of the Dean and the Yale Office of New Haven and State Affairs closed a $33 million deal for 100 Church St. South, the site of New Haven’s former Richard C. Lee High School. The...
Florence Wald NUR ’41 GRD ’56 devoted her life to death. Even until her own passing this month at the age of 91, Wald worked tirelessly to make the process of dying dignified and comfortable for countless terminally ill patients. In fact, the former dean of the School of Nursing died while receiving the kind of end-of-life care she herself introduced to the American...
The Yale School of Nursing has received a $3.9 million grant — the largest in the school’s history — from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a study assessing nurses’ electrocardiogram monitoring skills. Nursing School professor Marjorie Funk and her co-investigator, University of California–San Francisco School of Nursing professor Barbara Drew, will...
Groundbreaking research by Yale School of Nursing Dean Margaret Grey and her colleagues was recently honored as being among the top ten most influential nursing studies in the 22-year history of the National Institute of Nursing Research, according to “Changing Practice, Changing Lives: 10 Landmark Nursing Research Studies,” a publication issued by the NINR last...
When Dorothy Cannon NUR ’47 was a young cadet nurse during World War II, she gained experience the hard way — by caring for wounded soldiers. But these days, nursing students practice their skills on a different kind of patient: a robot affectionately nicknamed “Harry.” “Harry,” a patient robot that can blink, cry and simulate convulsions, is one of many...
The Yale School of Nursing announced over the weekend that it has received a multi-million-dollar grant from a local nonprofit to provide increased financial aid for nursing students. The Helene Fuld Health Trust Fund of New York has pledged to provide $2 million in need- and merit-based scholarships and an additional $500,000 to support the startup of the school’s new...
AIDS in Africa, medical challenges in Latin America and women’s health issues in the Caribbean are on the lips and minds of Yalies as they participate in the University’s first Global Health Week. The multidisciplinary effort aims to bring a greater awareness of the world’s health issues to Yale students and faculty. The week’s events range from a dance contest...
Those of us who were at Yale last fall no doubt remember having our worst fears about New Haven seemingly confirmed: Before the first week of classes was over, a student was shot in the hand during a robbery and another group of students was mugged at gunpoint just off campus. These were only the first in a rash of crimes that prompted an unprecedented expansion of...
