May 14, 2007
Annemarie Barron, assistant professor of nursing, was appointed
faculty nurse scientist at the Yvonne L. Munn Center for Nursing Research at Massachusetts General Hospital.
The Munn Center was established in 2003 to provide nurses an opportunity to identify new ways to reshape,
influence and improve the delivery of patient care and nursing practice.
Jeannette A. Bastian, associate professor in the Graduate School of
Library and Information Science, is the recipient of the Midwest Archives Association's Margaret Cross Norton
Award for her article "In a House of Memory: Discovering the Provenance of Place," which appeared in vol. 28,
no. 1 (2003-2004) of Archival Issues, a peer-reviewed journal.
Bastian received the award May 4 at the Midwest Archives Annual conference in Columbus, Ohio. The award
recognizes the author of what is judged to be the best article in the previous two years of Archival
Issues.
Graduate School of Library and Information Science Lecturer Ann
Cullen received the Special Libraries Association's 2007 Business & Finance Division Award for
Outstanding Achievement in Business Librarianship, during a June 4 awards reception in Denver, Colo. The
award recognizes a division member who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of business and
finance librarianship and information science. Cullen is curriculum services librarian at Harvard Business
School's Baker Library.
On April 28, Ellen Davidson, assistant professor in the education
department, presented a session at the "Creating Balance in an Unjust World" National Conference on Math
Education and Social Justice at Long Island University in New York. Her presentation was titled "How
Unfair Is It? Analyzing World Resource Distribution in Mathematically Rigorous Ways."
Rebecca Koeniger-Donohue, assistant professor in the Graduate Program
in Primary Health Care Nursing, was a presenter at the Northeast Regional Nurse Practitioner Conference May
4. Her topics were "The HPV Vaccine: What Clinicians Need to Know," and "The Revised Guidelines on the
Management of Women with Cytologic Abnormalities and Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia." She also
published an article in the June issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of
Clinical Nursing, titled "Nurse Practitioner-Client Interaction as Resource Exchange: The Nurse's
View."
School of Health Sciences Dean Gerald P. Koocher gave the
commencement address to graduates of Yeshiva University's Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology in New York
May 21. His speech focused on "Professional Integrity."
Julie Vosit-Steller, assistant clinical professor, published an
article in Nursing Spectrum in March, titled "Scholarly Explanation
of Collaboration with University of Rhode Island and Romanian Hospices of Hope." The article described a
teleconferencing relationship established between the Hospices of Hope in Bucharest, Romania, Simmons
College, and the University of Rhode Island School of Nursing, and a trip that this group will take this
month. During the trip, Vosit-Steller will take a group of Simmons students to Romania to observe the
practices of the hospice staff, as they work with Romanian women at the end of life.
Patricia White and Janet
Rico, both assistant professors of nursing, presented the paper "A Learning Collaborative for
Accelerated Models of Nursing Education" at the Annual Meeting of the National Organization of Nurse
Practitioner Faculties April 27 in Denver, Colo.
